14 DAY TRIAL // Though Julie Andrews herself gave Carrie Underwood her blessing to play Maria von Trapp in a new version of “The Sound of Music,” many fans of the original are so upset about it that they’re actually sending Carrie hate tweets and nasty Facebook messages.
I wouldn’t have known about it if Carrie herself didn’t admit it to Entertainment Weekly in a new interview, in which she also set the record straight: she’s not trying to pretend that she’s Julie, so there’s no point of constantly throwing that in her face.
“I get hate tweets and stuff like, ‘You're not Julie Andrews!’ I know I'm not Julie. Nobody is and I would never pretend that I was… I know my place,” she explains in her typical grown-up, extremely professional manner.
The new “Sound of Music” will air live on NBC on December 5 and will see up on stage next to Carrie Stephen Moyer from “True Blood” as Captain von Trapp, soprano Aurora McDonald as Mother Abbess, and Laura Benanti and Christian Borle.
As Andrews said in a recent interview, people need to look on the new project with an open mind. “I think after 40 or 50 years, it's probably time somebody else had a crack at it,” she said. So why hate on it in advance?