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Julie Christie Trivia
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- Turned down the role of Louise Bryant in her former lover Warren Beatty's "Reds" (1981) as she thought the role should be played by an American. Beatty's then-lover Diane Keaton won a Best Actress Academy Award nomination playing the role.
- The infamous dinner-party scene in "Shampoo" was completely improvised by Julie and Warren Beatty, much to the surprise of the rest of the cast and director Hal Ashby
- Directors she works with often enjoy working with her so much that they use her several times, Robert Altman in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" and "Nashville" John Schlesinger in "Billy Liar," Darling," "Far From the Madding Crowd," and "Seperate Tables" Nicolas Roeg directed her in "Don't Look Now" and was cinematographer on "Doctor Zhivago," "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Fahrenheit 451," and "Petulia," and lover Warren Beatty used her in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," "Shampoo," and "Heaven Can Wait"
- Brother Clive Christie is a professor of SouthEast Asian studies at Cambridge University
- Was best friends with actress Sharon Tate.
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