Christopher Plummer Praises Lady Gaga's SOUND OF MUSIC Tribute: 'She Sang It So Well'

In an all-new interview with Deadline.com, SOUND OF MUSIC star Christopher Plummer reflects on the iconic musical film, now celebrating its 50th Anniversary

Plummer reveals that the original script for the project had been hanging around in offices at 20th Century FOX for eight years. "It was at the bottom of some drawer underneath horror movies and the like. I thought, 'oh God, I'd like to be in a musical. And Julie Andrews is great. I love her, so why not do it?'", he says. "But neither of us had any inkling that the success would be so unanimous and astounding. Oh God, no."

The actor also shared that he is looking forward to seeing the restored version of the classic 1965 film. "It is kind of marvelous, isn't it? Because there is a new group of youngsters every year who their parents tell them to go see The Sound Of Music. So it's always fresh in some miraculous way because it's a real family picture and I guess they don't make them like that anymore. It's something to hold onto. And it practically saved the studio, didn't it from bankruptcy way back when?" he shares.

Though Plummer was not able to make it in person to this year's Oscars, he throroughly enjoyed Lady Gaga's musical tribute to the film, which featured a medley of songs from the score. "I didn't go to the Oscars because first of all I couldn't, and the second thing, it was a tribute to her [Julie Andrews] I would've looked stupid being there and not doing anything," he explains. "And it worked perfectly because Lady Gaga was, I thought she was just wonderful. She sang it so well in the style of the piece and she didn't add any modern rock sounds. She did it straight and she has a lovely voice."

Read the interview in full here

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