![]() ![]() But there wasn't much lovable about Travers, which is what made it so challenging for Emma. But of course filmmakers want a lovable character, even though the character may do very unpleasant things. She was a complex woman, and not inclined to be particularly friendly. Some of the English newspapers, not knowing very much about her, have written that she was a "dragon woman." It's not true. She had a lot of reasons to be not very jolly.Ī: No. And she never married, so she had to go through everything alone. At the time the "Mary Poppins" movie was being made, her son was actually in prison for drunk driving without a license. She was the daughter of an alcoholic, and later adopted a son who also became an alcoholic. Q: Travers had a difficult life, in some ways.Ī: That's right. Julie Andrews was not the Mary Poppins she created. So when they say in the movie, "We're going to put in this song now," or "Dick Van Dyke will play Bert" - a shocking piece of casting - she's always saying, "Definitely not." She was trying to protect her precious Mary Poppins, who she feared - and she was right - that Disney would make very pretty and sweet. She didn't give in to anyone's questions or explain herself. She was Australian, but she assumed this identity of an upper-middle-class Englishwoman who was demanding, you know, and commanding. If you think of a children's writer being like, I don't know, your favorite auntie or something, she was completely unlike that. A: Nice? Well, certainly she wasn't your best friend. ![]()
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