They loved Andrews immediately
But she was actually cast for The Sound of Music immediately after Robert Wise and Ernest Lehman visited the Mary Poppins set, and saw her in action.
27. Travers highly approved of Andrews’ casting
Author Travers was disappointed by a lot of things – but not by the casting of Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins.
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She might have thought Andrews to be too beautiful, but it was Disney who decided not to make her ugly – Andrews was happy to apply any prosthetics.
She was supposed to be more like Nanny McPhee
Travers first spoke with Andrews via the telephone, shortly after Andrews had given birth to her daughter, Emma:
“‘Well I’m feeling a bit woozy right now. I just had a baby yesterday.'”
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It took just this one conversation to convince Travers that she’d make an excellent Mary Poppins. Andrews is simply a queen (and not just in The Princess Diaries)!
28. Some of the actors with uninformed
The two children playing Mr. and Mrs. Banks’ children weren’t entirely clued in into all the magic Mary Poppins was going to perform.
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