Julie Andrews? Making a rare on-camera appearance? Shut… up!
And, yet, there was the decorated dame, kicking off the annual World Parkinson’s Congress conference in May with a video message that ensured the Phoenix Convention Center was filled with the sounds of her voice.
“Your participation is invaluable as we seek to find a cure to this terrible disease,” the 90-year-old noted to attendees. “I know well how devastating it can be. May we all become a beacon of light to stop it in its tracks. Count me in as a red thread.”
And that’s just one project the Sound of Music alum is tackling in this chapter of life.
Come 2027, Disney+ viewers will be treated to a film chronicling the Oscar winner’s career journey.
And last fall, she and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton—her only child with first husband, costume designer Tony Walton, though she’s also mom to Amy Edwards and Joanna Edwards with director Blake Edwards—did a full reissue of their 2010 book, The Great American Mousical about a troupe of theater-loving mice.