Armie Hammer proved he’s just as charming and talented a chef asJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s late husband Marty Ginsburg, whom he plays in the new filmOn the Basis of Sex.
“The most inspiring part of their relationship is their actual equal partnership,” Hammer, 32, told PEOPLE at the premiere. “I think it was the template that she applied to the change that she wanted to see in the world in terms of gender equality — of men and women working together in order to bring [each other] up.”
Before she was known as the “Notorious RBG,” Justice Ginsburg, 85, was notorious in her family for her bad cooking. To spare them all, Mr. Ginsburg acted as the family chef. (Together they raised their daughter Jane, now 63, and son James, 53). Not only was Mr. Ginsburg supporting his wife, it was a task the renowned tax lawyer greatly enjoyed.
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“Marty was a very progressive husband in the ’50s,” director Mimi Leder told PEOPLE. “He was a man who did the cooking, shared in the parenting and worked. It was very revolutionary back in the ’50s and very progressive and even so today. I think a lot of people can take a lesson from Marty Ginsburg’s playbook. Their marriage was one based on love and compassion and passion.”
Leder also explained that after Mr. Ginsburg’s death in 2010, the wives of the Supreme Court justices who had cooked with him compiled his recipes in a book calledChef Supreme. So, when Justice Ginsburg met Hammer she gave him a copy of the book.
“[Justice Ginsburg] was quite taken with Armie Hammer and gave her stamp of approval,” Leder said.
Armie Hammer and Felicity Jones (as Martin Ginsburg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg).Focus Features
“I made what I call the Party-Marty meal. I wanted to entertain and cook for people because it’s such a huge part of Martin’s personality and what he liked to do,” Hammer explained. “My favorite recipe that I made was probably the chicken-liver pâté. It’s delightful.”
While Hammer already knew how to cook well, he said that using Mr. Ginsburg’s recipes helped expand his horizons because the late lawyer was “adventurous” in the kitchen.
“[Marty] approached his recipes like he approached his legal practice,” Hammer said of the composition of the recipes. “Very detailed, very funny, very witty, very charming.”
Not only were the dinner parties entertaining for the cast and crew, they helped Hammer get into character when he was on set. And Justice Ginsburg noticed.
“Did you notice the scene in which [Armie] is in the kitchen chopping vegetables?” Justice Ginsburg said during a chat following the film screening. “That was a very, very reminiscent of Marty.”
On the Basis of Sexopens Dec. 25.
For more about Justice Ginsburg and Martin Ginsburg’s real love story, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on stands Friday.
source: people.com
