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And I was for a while, but I couldn't not do it. MARTIN: 'Mary Poppins' wasn't even out in theaters when you were cast as the lead in 'The Sound Of Music.' But you write that you were hesitant to play another nanny.ĪNDREWS: Well, only that I did worry that I might get typecast. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards is dociousaliexpilisticfragilcalirupus (ph).ĪNDREWS: (As Mary Poppins, singing) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Can you, please?ĪNDREWS: (Laughter) Yes, I can. MARTIN: Oh, you know I'm going to ask you. Can you tell us that story?ĪNDREWS: Yes, he said, you know, it would be great if in the middle of the song you sort of threw in an aside that said, you know, you can say it backwards, but that's really going too far, don't you think? And he worked out the phonetics of saying it backwards, which I still can do. And in the filming of that scene, he made a suggestion that you should ad-lib. MARTIN: I love the detail you write about the scene where you're filming 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' And your husband at the time, Tony Walton, who was in charge of set and costume design, actually, for 'Mary Poppins,' he was there on set. Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, 'SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS')ĪNDREWS: (As Mary Poppins, singing) The biggest word you ever heard and this is how it goes.

#Supercal mary poppins movie#

And it really was the best film to begin to learn the craft of making a movie because everything about it was an education. And so you have to hold the whole film in your head while shooting each individual scene. You could start in the middle and then shoot the end sequence. But in film, you could be shooting out of sequence. What was the most difficult part of taking the experience that you had had on stage in theater and moving it to the screen?ĪNDREWS: Well, you know, on stage, you start at the beginning and go straight through to the end.

I got to talk to Julie Andrews about her memoir titled 'Home Work: A Memoir Of My Hollywood Years.' Believe it or not, 'Mary Poppins' was the very first film she ever made. It's in part because of how her stardom happened. MARTIN: Which is hard to believe, right? Hollywood icon Julie Andrews still feels a little bit insecure. And I will stop and think, God, I wish I'd done that better. MARTIN: Do you happen upon them ever on TV, those movies?ĪNDREWS: I do happen upon them once in a while. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, 'THE SOUND OF MUSIC')ĪNDREWS: (As Maria, singing) The hills are alive with the sound of music. JULIE ANDREWS: (As Mary Poppins, singing) Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, 'A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR') And the opportunities that came early in her career changed everything.

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No doubt, there was endless hard work, but she has lived long enough to know that success is hard work plus opportunity.