Reese Witherspoon

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1:05Hello and welcome to Table Manners, which you can now listen to and watch on YouTube. Hi, Mum. Hi, darling. We're back. We're back. With a bang. After a lovely summer. Yep. Still got the tan. Still got the tan, darling. That long-lasting six-week tan. Yeah, that elastic. Sorry. Gradual tan, that was. Yeah, darling. Six weeks away. Yep. Looking glorious. Looking rested. Yeah, rested. Met lots of people who love the podcast. That's nice. In the sea. Gorgeous. In the sea. Or is it Limna Nari? I love that you barely get in the sea. So let's say sunbed. Let's be real, Mum. On the sunbed. Yeah. And in the sea.

1:40That's nice. Well, we feel refreshed and ready to welcome a huge star today. Yeah. Season 18. Season 18. So we decided to give you Reese Witherspoon. Sure. No biggie. I am really excited to meet her. Me too. Because she is... Do you think she's little? Yes. I think so too. Should we say petite? Petite. L. Elle. Her name is Rhys, but we love her for Elle Woods, don't we? Yeah, Rhys Witherspoon, who is an Academy Award winner for playing June Carter in Walk the Line. Business exec, producer, writer, founder of a big old book club. In my very favourite TV show. Which one's your favourite TV show?

2:20Morning show. Well, that's what she's coming on to talk about, which we're very excited to chat to her about. Yeah, Rhys is over and we have her for lunch. You are on cooking duty today. Yes, I am. What have you made? Roast chicken. Can I just quickly acknowledge that I had one of the best roast chickens of my life yesterday? Oh, God. Rochelle Canteen in East London, you can do no wrong. You are consistently excellent. I took my husband there for his birthday and it's just one of my favourite restaurants. I had a Sutton Hoo. Do you know Sutton Hoo? It's an area and it's apparently... Sutton Hoo is where they did the excavation of the great big boat.

2:57Carey Mulligan was in the film. Oh, well, I had a Sutton Hoo chicken. yeah and they did it oh okay it was out of this world god anyway i hope it wasn't one of the ones that was left in the boat that they well that they excavated well so i'm i'm all fired up for your roast chicken so how are you doing your roast chicken today mom just roasted it oh okay cool on a bed of vegetables which vegetables fennel yeah carrot yeah onion yeah celery yeah and some garlic. Gorgeous. And then you're making a little jus. A little jus. Yeah. Which tastes a bit salty, but it will be fine. Put your jam that you put, oh, the cranberry sauce or something.

3:36Yeah, I can do. Okay, great. And I've done some steamed vegetables, and you've done some courgettes. Courgettes with garlic in them. And we've also got some garlicky potatoes. I hope she likes garlic. I hope she does too, Jessie. We have been lucky enough, thank you, Apple, to watch a bit of the new season of The Morning Show. You see, you've indulged yourself. I only allowed myself to. Why? Because it starts tomorrow and I want to watch it on TV on the big screen. That's really odd because surely they stagger it, don't they, on Apple with these ones? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would go as far as to say I think it's one of the best seasons I've watched.

4:20It's really exciting and cutthroat. And of course, Rhys is starring in it with Jennifer Anstead, but also Bradley Jackson. But she's also an exec on it. Is she? Yeah, it's her baby. So fabulous. You know, you've seen Rhys on the screen, but you've also seen some of the biggest TV shows and films. Big Little Lies. Yeah. Her and Nicole Kidman, I think, produced. Little Fires Everywhere. Little Fires Everywhere. Daisy Jones and the Six. My favourite. This is all her production company, Hello Sunshine. So she's like a very... She must read a lot. Yeah, she has the Reese's Book Club. I wonder what she's reading this week.

5:01Oh, we'll find out. Reese Witherspoon coming up in Table Manners.

5:13Reese Witherspoon is here with us with a cup of tea and we're thrilled to have you. I love some PG tips. Oh, you like PG tips? Well, I made a couple movies here when I was a little, like a young woman, and I got so obsessed with PG Tips because that's all they offer on set. That and some like old cookies. You know the advertisement for PG Tips used to be a chimpanzee? They used to be chimpanzees having tea parties. I have no idea, but that was the advertisement. I hear you do like a little cookie in the afternoon, don't you? I do like a cookie. Have you like sampled some British biscuits? Every day, like a cookie.

5:51every day. What's the cookie that you're going to find in your house? My 13 year old and I are determined to make the perfect chocolate chip cookie. So every day when he comes home to school, like every three days we make a new batch of chocolate chip cookies and we do it from a different recipe in a different book. And then we measure, is it more butter? Is it more sugar? What makes it a best cookie? How near are you to perfecting the perfect chocolate chip cookie? and will you be coming out with a cookie? Yes, probably. It'll be the Hello Sunshine. It'll be the sunny cookie. Surely. I'm just going to make cookies and it's going to be a hobby and it's not going to be a business because I'm learning my lesson.

6:29But everything is not a business. It's hard when you're so good at it, Grace. Some things are just a hobby. But actually, even if you fail on the cookies, you eat the ones that you failed on. Yeah, that's true. So it's a win-win situation. Yeah. And there's science involved, you know. Of course there's science, yeah. He likes the big crispy ones. Not the chewy. No, I like chewy, dense and chewy. So mine have more flour and his have more butter. Okay. Wow. Is he a good cook? He is. He just enjoys, well, he enjoys making food. My middle son loves cooking. Really? He's really good at making steaks and mainly steaks.

7:09Does he live with you? No. He's in college. He's in his last year of college. Oh, goodness. Yes, that's like... How can you look 12? Because she was quite young when she had her first two. I have a 26-year-old daughter. Crikey. I know. I was trying to work out how old your children were because you looked so young. Yes, I was very, very young. You were very young when you had... Were you 23? I was 23 when I had my daughter, yeah. Wow. Yeah. So I'm 49 now, yeah. She's 26. It must feel very different, of course, but like having your son who's 13, you said? He's 13. Like, it must be a very different experience from when you were kind of on set.

7:48I've seen some of your Instagrams where it's like, you know, you were doing long hours. Those babies were coming with you and they were, you looked like you were having a great time. But I'm sure that it was pretty hard. It was really hard, yeah. It was hard. You live in LA? No, I live in Nashville, Tennessee. Oh, you live in Nashville? Where my mom lives and my dad lives and my brother and my niece. And all your children are there? No, my daughter lives by herself in LA. Yeah. And then my son lives in New York because he goes to school in New York. And then my littlest guy goes to school in Nashville.

8:17So that's kind of perfect. You've got one in every kind of place that you need to be. I know, it's kind of hard though. Yeah, I miss them. But I do shoot the morning show in LA. And so I get to see my daughter when I'm there. It's not shot in New York. Parts of it are shot in New York. So we probably do a month in New York and five months in LA. I love Nashville and I have not been there enough and but I got I got completely obsessed with that TV show Nashville as well and then I was like I just want to be a country singer it was really good it's really good yeah the creator Kelly Curry is a friend of mine and she lives in Nashville too so we just have the best dinner parties really she's just so funny okay tell me about a typical Nashville dinner party what's going to be on the table oh okay is it still quite southern food I mean, I would say so.

9:08My grandma was a really great cook, so she kind of taught me how to roast everything, you know. Barbecue is a big deal in the South. But probably the same stuff that you guys would make, like roast chicken and fish, you know. Is the weather nicer at the moment? Right now, yes. Beautiful. It's really lovely in the fall. It's really lovely in the spring. And hot in the summer. It's unbearably hot in the summer. like you can barely breathe it's so hot so where do you go in the summer to cool off oh well you know Wyoming or come here I usually come here for a couple weeks you like Europe in the summer yeah yeah just it's cooler um I know and you guys probably think it's boiling hot but it's not compared to Tennessee we thought you might be so hot this year people will turn to me in July here and go oh it's so hot i'm like no the hot you don't know hot until you go to nashville but we don't have ac everywhere that's the thing that's an issue so we can't like control it so we're poor will poulter was on the podcast last in the summer when we were doing the last season and we were dripping everyone was dripping we all looked completely it was quite disgusting actually he was lovely he was lovely he was hot though so he was hot in every sense of the word Yes.

10:26Okay, you're really cute. My mom would do the same thing. She'd be like, wink at me. Yeah. He was cute. My mom has a total thing about that guy from Outlander. Which one? Do you know the... Hugen? I don't watch it. Should I watch it? My mother says it's fantastic and very sexy. It's a kind of fantasy. It's fantasy. It's supposed to be hot as well. Your mother... I bet your mom likes Bridgerton too. Sam Hugen is his name. Was he the one in... No. one day Sam Hugo no that was Sam Clatham wasn't it that was no and he was in Daisy Jones and the Six wasn't he which is fantastic oh I loved it oh thank you for watching are you kidding so much I love that show so much I thought she was sublime sublime unbelievable and you know Stevie Nicks like reached out and said I want to meet Riley Keough she was so good it reminded me when I first started Fleetwood Mac and so I got to facilitate them meeting in Nashville.

11:25And it was really one of the most special moments of my career. It was just so good. Stevie told us all night long her stories about Fleetwood Mac and her relationships and her love affairs and just how everything about Daisy Jones reminded her of her early years. It was like watching Fleetwood Mac, I think. It was amazing. While my dog sat on her lap and she like pet my dog. And I was like, oh my God, I'm dying. So what's your dog like? My dog is amazing. Is it an L dog? A what dog? What, a dog like? Oh, like L. Woods, no. No, a bit bigger. It's a French bulldog. Oh, Frenchie. And she's little, though.

12:02She never grew, so her name is Minnie. Oh, sweet. She's black and white, and she looks like a little tiny cow. Oh, sweet. They're either bat pigs or cows, aren't they? Oh, they're so cute. And she knows when she goes to work, I'm like, Minnie, we have to go to work. We're going to do a social media post for Reese's Book Club today. And she gets all ready, and she's like, she literally poses. So she's like, she's like, she poses. Oh, works. Let's talk about Reese's Book Club because actually my university housemate actually got one of her books got chosen. No way. Before we were innocent. Ella Berman.

12:34Love it. I know that you read a lot and you read with your grandma. Yes. And she kind of would do the accents and the characters. She would act it out for me. Did you do that for your children? Yes. Do they appreciate it? Because my children don't appreciate when I do the accents. They say, calm down. See, it's taken them now into their 20s. they remember me reading in the character voices. And I have one very famous character with my children. Okay, who is that? Which is, it's the Swedish Norwal. She's the Swedish Norwal. What, the, like, novel? Yes, she's a Norwal, yeah. What book was this? I don't know.

13:06You just were doing it. But I do it with the Lilt. Please do the Swedish Norwal. No, I can't. No, you need to now. I do the Swedish Norwal. And she comes to visit the children. And I don't know, my children thought it was so freaking funny so now they you know especially my little guy always talks about the swedish narwhal see my children and i would make them laugh like they thought it was really funny that i had these ridiculous voices but it's actually what i remember the most about learning to read was that my grandmother did all the voices and i thought she was so funny and you know there's all these statistics about literacy rates and children are just dropping like crazy um especially during covid it just turned into a total screen takeover and a lot of kids weren't reading anymore for pleasure and i think a lot of that starts with reading to young kids and making a ritual of it whether you reach them you know at night or just 20 minutes during the day there used to be a program here in the uk called read with nans what's that i don't know No, but they need to bring it back.

14:13A friend of mine who has this fantastic, his name is Pierre Lagrange, and he has this early childhood reader program called Mrs. Wordsmith. Okay. And he was telling me they had this program here where Nans, they would go in and read to kids in kindergarten. Yeah, we do that in school. You do? Yeah, people go in as hell. I did. Did you? Yeah, I went to Honeywell. if you're a good parent you went in so you carried favor with all the teachers so you went in and you sat in the class and would sit in here the because the teachers only heard you read about 10 minutes a week so they had to help us going in i just love this idea yeah reading with nans because maybe you should add it to the book club thinking about trying to start a program or like a like a series where i don't know where nans read to little kids who recommends books to you oh okay so I have a team of um probably three people who read the books first and they get them very early like probably a year before they're published okay and they all read it and then they decide whether or not they recommend it to me and then it goes to me so it's kind of like your own mini book club is like before yeah because I've just started a book club with my girlfriends I feel like I'm at that age I'm 40 I'm gonna be 41 it's like it's time for a book club I saw Romantic Comedy is on the book club which is one of my favourite when's it going to be made into a film have you got the rights we have the rights we have a script who's playing the girl can we put in something tell me Aisling B she's a comedian she didn't know who had got the rights she was on the podcast we all had just read it it was just after summer I think yeah and she said I love it so much and I am perfect for the part so we're just throwing her in the ring yeah Ashenby she's in films with Paul Rudd she's fantastic she's been with she's brilliant yeah great so I'm just throwing that out yeah okay I love it okay and if it happens we'll be through my development executive immediately right thank you um you know what can I say something about book clubs and why I think they're important and you you're so right because first of all we need to stop scrolling and get into the real world right?

16:34Because I'm guilty of it too. But when you read books and socialize the concepts inside of them, you're actually doing a community service of getting people together, you know? And we need to remember that people are super duper lonely. People need to talk about things like love, loss, grief in community. Not a lot of people can afford therapy. And it's a way we synthesize the human experience and kind of share with each other right oh you see my book club wasn't like that what was that too well they didn't want to chat about feelings and how it made you feel they wanted to they treated it like a kind of further education class I don't I want to talk about how it made me feel right and also I'm Jewish I cut across people and interrupt and they hate that though we had to go in turn and the one person in charge kept saying can we take it in turn oh that's not fun and i knew it was directed at me so i wouldn't speak were you asked to leave or did you leave i left okay um right we're going this sounds like a very boring book club come to my book club i'll come in your book it's it's much more fun and it's in nashville yeah so we can go to a honky-tonk after yeah honky-tonk after do you wear rhinestones a lot oh do you Do you have a big hat?

17:55For like, well, Saturdays. And do line dancing? Well, I do know how to line dance. You do? I can teach you how to line dance, yeah. You can? It's so easy. But I do. I have tons of cowboy boots. I don't wear rhinestones. Okay. Have you got a cowboy hat? I really don't. That's more Texas. Oh, is that more Texas? In my opinion. Okay. But cowboy boots aren't Texas? No, they are. But they're very Nashville. Okay. Maybe. We didn't wear hats. We wore boots. okay you wear boots and you wear a big belt a big belt big you wear jeans big belts jeans or a tiny little cute skirt yeah and then yeah and then you can't i'm some people wear rhinestones yeah i'm imagining lenny going to get kitted out in what's that famous road that what the what's it the um yeah broadway yeah you go down to broadway and then they can dress you up and then put the boots on you.

18:50And then we go line dancing. Okay. And then we go line dancing. At the Wild Horse Saloon. The Wild Horse Saloon. It sounds heavy. And where do you, if you're in Nashville, where do you go to eat? I mean, do you? Do you want my list? Yeah. Is Arnold's on there? Yeah. I love Arnold's. That's like a meat and three. You get your protein, which is usually something fried. Fried meat. Yeah. And then you get three soggy boiled vegetables. Delicious. But I think they're delicious. Delicious. The color. They cook them and ham hocks and broth so they're very salty and delicious yeah and so you usually do collard greens or green beans they all look the same yeah and then mashed potatoes with lots of butter and lots of milk okay it's delicious okay and where else if we weren't having a meet in three you have to get hot chicken in nashville oh okay so we have hot chicken princess hot chicken or hattie bees and then they have like different levels of heat so you can try.

19:45I'm not good with heat. Oh, a bit like Nando's. So would you never do hot ones? I was gonna do hot ones. But I had to cancel. Okay, so maybe you will do it. Mainly because I had something I had to do the next day and I could not be feeling like that. What, like the ring of fire? I can't do that. No. That's not for me. I don't like to do a talk show and then feel the talk show the next day. fair enough do you know what i'm saying i know what you're saying was what the line done in nashville okay actually it was done in memphis tennessee oh memphis and parts of arkansas which arkansas and memphis share the mississippi river so you just cross over a bridge and you're in arkansas but mississippi um memphis is really amazing with beale street so if you ever go to memphis of course graceland of course of course sun records of course of course but beale street is one of the coolest places to hear the blues the original blues and you hear it people there you really cannot believe they're not famous singing artists like recording artists well i feel like you've kind of been in all these places that have music at the heart of them you're talking like and weren't you born in new orleans was born in new orleans yeah so like you've got frenchman's i mean like it's kind of it feels like it follows you it's like i mean it wasn't colman domingo in that um bill street film yes that was a great film wasn't it yes if bill street yes that was beautiful was that about that bill street okay um can we go back to your grandma sure who you talk about um so fondly and your mom was a nurse she's checking she's checking the chicken okay yeah um your mom was a nurse my mother was a nurse my dad was a doctor in the military first so your Well, you talk about your grandma kind of helping to bring you up.

21:36Yes. And what are some of the, can you give us, paint the picture of a very memorable meal and who was sitting around the dinner table? Oh my gosh. My grandmother made the best food. So every Sunday she would do kind of Sunday night dinner, supper. And we would go over there and it'd be my mom and me and my brother and my dad and his brother and my grandma and grandpa. and there was a while there when we moved back because we were in the military when we moved back from germany we lived with my grandparents for a year or two years so i just i remember us like sleeping on the couch and then my grandmother be cooking and she'd make honey coated ham so like sugared candied ham yeah um sweet potatoes with you know marshmallows and um candied pecans on the top and green beans and mashed potatoes she'd make these like dough rolls like yeast rolls that were like um kind of puffy like a little loaf of bread okay uh lots of butter and always dessert she loved meringue pie so she could make the meringue really thick and so she'd either do a chocolate cream with meringue on top or a lemon cream with the meringue and then she'd toast the top of the meringue.

22:54I can't. It was so bad. So she was an amazing cook. She was. Yeah. And she really loved it. And she was your dad's mom. Yes. My dad's mom. What about the other grandma? She passed away when my mom was really young. Oh, so you never tasted that? No, but I was named after her. And my mom always says I'm a lot like her name is Laura Jean Reese. And I'm Laura Jean Reese. Oh, so Reese isn't your first name. No, Laura Jean is my first name. Laura Jean. Well, that sounds deep south to me they're all good yeah we have these double names these southern girls have double names yeah um can we uh we ask everybody what their last supper would be and before we start eating a little bit so the last supper you don't you can go to a desert island or you can go back to the wilderness like you know it's um a starter a main a dessert whoa and a drink of choice okay so you can think about it we can come back to it oh no i already know you've got it okay fine right hit me starter your mom left the interview just fyi this is what happens this is what happens lenny no she just this is the thing so then we take it's like yeah she's playing up so then we just carry on don't worry she hasn't left she's just doing she's she's doing the work hosting a party exactly so starter main dessert drink of choice okay starter well I mean why not start with dessert because you're dying oh we're dying we're not we're not going to you said last meal yeah I know but I said it can be your last supper if you want to do it like that I'm going to start with dessert okay okay I'm going to have a baked Alaska oh delicious I don't know how people make a baked Alaska me neither but it's the most delicious in my mind it's what baby Jesus ate because it's that delicious it's really professional don't worry it's like it's it's this is it welcome to our world it's all right she's you're killing it lenny okay so you're starting with baked alaska is there a particular baked alaska that you've tried or has it been well you just always have it on the menu i had it somewhere recently where i was like this is the best one ever and i can't remember where but i had with my little my 13 year old and he and i were like this is insane because it's some like i don't even know y 'all know what baked alaska is but it was like ice cream but then it's about a hot layer and then meringue on top it's delicious so good i love meringue maybe you could try and make uh-huh your cookie could be almost within incorporated within your baked alaska if you and your son make it maybe too much i know i like that But I love a meringue too.

25:39So, okay, we're starting with that. Okay. And then where are we going after that? Then I'm going to have a pasta bolognese because there's nothing better on earth. I agree with you. Yeah. Mom, she just went with spag bol. I love spaghetti bolognese. It's one of my favorites. That's what I have to have. Are you having a home-cooked one or are you going somewhere for it? There's this restaurant in Los Angeles called Capo that has the most delicious one I've ever had. Really? Mm-hmm. Have you asked the chef what they put in it? Because you know everyone's got their trick. No, because I don't want to have to make it at home, because then I'll have to eat it.

26:13Lisa, I've done roast chicken, but you need to tell me which bit of roast chicken you like. Well, I kind of like the... Like breast? I like the leg and thigh. The leg and thigh. Thank you. This is delicious. Are you kidding me? This is beautiful. Thanks, Mum. Pleasure. I promise I will help kind of with the clearing up. Is there anything we can do to help? No, nothing. I'm on it. I might not look. She's a pro. Basically, this podcast was born out of the fact that my mum's always cooked for my friends. So that's kind of why we do it. I love that. So, okay. So we've got spag bol. Are you having any sides?

26:51No. Just spag bol. Why bother? No. No, fair enough. This is my last meal. Okay. So, on this, whatever I'm, Desert Island, I'm not going to worry about, you know, eating greens. Fine. I think I'm done with that part of my life. Now, are we going to end with a starter or are we just going to go back to a putt? You know what I'm going to end with? Something I just had this summer in Florence, Italy that is the most delicious thing I've ever had in my entire life. An affogato, but with pistachio ice cream and pistachio cream on the side of the cup. I've never heard of this and I'm into it. It's insane.

27:34that's so on the pistachio cream like how is the cream like is it whipped cream like no it's made like a hazelnut butter so it's like a okay fine okay pistachio butter so like what we'd find in like the dubai chocolate correct okay oh i have to have to buy chocolate it is good isn't it with a little filo dough crispiness in the middle my mom made it for a guest on this yeah what you want chocolate it's easy you like homemade chocolate you got your little molds didn't you Thanks, Mum. Do you temper your own chocolate? Yeah, I did for that. Willy Wonka over here. So cute. I don't know how much you want, Rhys.

28:14Rhys, how much do you want? Well, a leg or a leg and a... Yeah. You know, it's still early in the morning, so I'm going to... Okay, I'm not going to overthink it. A little bite. You're making out that Lenny's really wholesome, and I'm kind of a... Thank you. There, darling. Thanks, Mum. I have a soft vestibule. Thank you, darling. This is beautiful. It does, Mom. It smells like home. It's good.

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30:32How do you make your gravy? This does look good, one. Just with some wine. Wine? Some cranberry sauces in that as well. Sweeten it up a little bit. Just sweeten it up. And do you do broth? I use the broth from the chickens. You do? Yeah. And it creates enough broth to make a gravy. Yeah, yeah. All right, would you like some greens? I'd love some. You're here to promote the morning show, which is excellent. I am, and thank you for having a song on our show, Jessie. Oh my God, I loved it. She needs another one. I know. I love the Monisha. I love the opening of Big Little Lies. That was iconic syncing.

31:09That one was good. The Michael Kilmanuka syncing. It's iconic. That one was really good. Sometimes like... Every time I'm in a yoga class, they play that song called Little Heart from Big Little Lies. And I'm like, are they playing this because I'm in the show? Yeah, is it awkward? Whenever I walk into a bar and they're playing a Johnny Cash song, I'm like... Did they just see who... Or Sweet Home Alabama. Emma. Like I have all these songs that I associate with movies. Can I add another one to that? Yeah, tell me. This is the part when I say I don't want to sing. Rosita. Oh yeah. That was iconic.

31:42Oh, you're a mom. So, you know, sing. We love sing. And you know, I see a lot of people don't know I'm in that movie. You're the best piggy ever. You and Gunter. I love that movie. It's such a great movie. I actually think the second movie was better. I kind of agree. Yeah, that sounds... Which was this, Jessie? Sing. Sing. Who was she? The pig. You were the pig. The really hard-working mum of, like, how many piglets did she have? Like, 34. So many. So whenever you feel overwhelmed, just remember, someone has 34 children. And then suck it up and just be quiet. It's so true. It's so true. But that was really good.

32:24Are they going to do another one of them? I don't know. I hope so. So if we were coming around to your house and we opened up the fridge, apart from cookie dough, maybe we'd find, what would we always find in Reese Witherspoon's fridge? Okay. A lot of vegetables. Like probably everything you've seen in here. Leeks, carrots, celery. So I make a lot of, every morning I make a green smoothie. I put in spinach, romaine lettuce, an apple, a pear, a banana, and a whole lemon. do you actually enjoy that no but you do it i actually enjoy it i've been drinking it for 10 years okay it's changed my skin my oh really oh now i'm in okay now we're talking about i'm gonna reverse aging make sure eyes white it's like everything do you add any like chlorophyll and those thingies no i don't put anything in it um i just drink it because it's pure you know fresh produce so it's really good what's it taste like it tastes kind of more apple and lemon.

33:25It tastes like apple lemon juice but it has like a little lettuce taste to it so you gotta just choke it down. Does your son, your 13 year old drink it as well? Absolutely not. You make your children drink it. Son does. He calls it green juice. Yeah, we call it dinosaur smoothie for the 4 year old so he will drink it. What do you put in the dinosaur smoothie? To make it green it'll probably be like spinach or something but we'll all with bananas, you know. What else is in there? whatever's kind of we freeze the bananas which i think is good isn't it makes it better yeah but sam's usually a bit they're more khaki than green i'd say they're kind of he needs to put more of the green and you know what i mean they're like they go a bit of a sad color they're not vibrant um okay so we'd find fresh produce great in your freezer which ice cream is in there i really like this ice cream that they make in nashville it's called baked bear and it's coffee flavored ice cream with Oreos in it.

34:22Oh, wow. What? Yes, your face says it all. It's that delicious. That's heaven because coffee is our favorite ice cream. Same. Oh my god. I love coffee. Do you know what's one of my favorite things that moms and daughters do? What? Talk about what they bought at the grocery store. My mom would go, I just went to Trader Joe's. Have you been to Trader Joe's? It's just great. Y 'all have Trader Joe's? No, but I love Trader Joe's. I love Trader Joe's. She's like, I got these ginger snap cookies. And they only come out at Christmas time. And they are delicious. you have to go get a box of these dinner shop cookies so i'll go down get the box of cookies and i'm like mom they're okay they're like a little dry but we'll literally have a conversation from the grocery store and then she tells me what she bought i bought half a baked potato and um that's what i had for dinner and i put a little chili with it and it was delicious that's um i mean i guess we are basically together for most meal times now so we know exactly what we do how many how many times a day do you speak to your mom well I text with her every day and then every Sunday we have dinner and I make like spaghetti bolognese because it's I know I really make four things pretty well and that's one of them do you have a secret ingredient in your spaghetti bolognese well I always secretly try to put in vegetables but it doesn't my kids like I see the spinach in that and you can't fool me is that terrible Yeah.

35:48Okay, I won't do that. But don't you put carrots and celery in anyway? I do. So I grate the carrots and the celery and the onion. Yeah, because it has to be really small because otherwise the child is going to, yeah. They taste it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, that's basically it. Nothing's fancy. And then, what else do I make? I roast chicken or I can make a steak or a filet mignon, something like that. A what? Filet mignon. A filet mignon. How do you take your steak? Medium. then what sides are you going to have with your steak if you're out if I'm out like a twice baked potato like when they bake the potato then they scoop out the middle and then they mix that it's so it's glorious sour cream and chives it's really nice what's your own sauce that you're going to have sauce yeah like a peppercorn, a mayonnaise, chimichurri I don't really eat any sauce Not a condiment girl.

36:49I'm not big on it. Fair enough. No. That's okay. No judgment here. Can I ask, because not only are you and Jennifer Aniston in the morning show and you are incredible and the new season is amazing on Apple TV+. I've only watched, because I love it so much. Yeah. I've only watched two because I really want to watch it on TV, not on my iPad. Did they send them all over to you? I've watched five. Jessie's watched five. I've got to the Chris Hunter episode, which is excellent. but I just like watching it on TV I know on a big screen you know what my mother says when she loves a TV show she's like it's like a little box of chocolates and I don't want to eat too many that's exactly how I felt I like to eat one a week no I gorge, I binge I binge and then I feel shit about myself well then you just don't have anything to look forward to I know but like so you're not a binger I can't binge because I get too sleepy I would say that I think it's almost one of the best seasons I've watched.

37:48Thank you. To be honest. I think it's quite cutthroat. It's more exciting. I love all the different relationships. Old Corey is coming out as not the nicest person in the world. That's right. Wait till you get to episode 8. You're going to want to stab him with something. No! We can't give away too much. Maybe not episode 8. It might be 9. But you're like, are you choking? But do you love Jen with her dad? With Jeremy Irons? Jeremy Irons. Can you die? The casting is just... I can't. I mean, he died when I saw him, and it's her father. But, like, whose idea was that? And he's so funny. He's so funny.

38:24It was just, like, Jennifer and casting our show. It was brilliant. Vicky Thomas, who casts our show. And he's just perfect. There's a really funny episode, too, where he does something really bad, and she has to go get him, and it's so funny. I'm also... I can't say much, but there's somebody that comes back. And that's a great character that comes back. And I'm happy because I always wondered where they went. But I want to know, because you and Jennifer, actually, you played her little sister in Friends. Yes, I did. I just need to know, did you ever try the famous Jennifer Aniston quinoa salad on set?

39:00That apparently she ate every day. What the hell was that? Oh, damn, what? It's the internet lying to me. Did she have a, she has a famous salad? I think she was going to ask me to get her haircut. This is, did you get her haircut? Of course. Yeah, we all did. Yeah. But no, this is what my algorithms give me. Jennifer Anston's famous friend's salad that she had. And it was like really small cut up veg. It looked delicious. I think it was quinoa. It had this certain vinaigrette. And apparently she ate it like every down set. Yum. But that's a lie, isn't it? It's a lie. If someone said you've got to eat quinoa every day, I'd kill myself.

39:37I like quinoa. I hate it. It's like frog spawn. If cooked wrong. Yeah. It probably is, but I don't like it. I mean, I wasn't going to go all the way to frog spawn, but I think it's like sand. Yeah, it's horrible. Well, you're not cooking yours enough, and you're cooking yours too much. That's where it's both going wrong. And it looks so unappetising. Okay, leave it alone. We'll stop about the quinoa. Anyway, fine. Everyone's hair was not Jennifer. It was Rachel. Yeah, you used to go in and say, I'm a hair like Rachel. That's what you wanted. I'm a hair like... It didn't suit me, actually. Oh, that's so cute.

40:14No, it wasn't good. I got it down the road, and it didn't look great on me, to be honest. I don't think it looked great on many people. Did it look good on you? It's only good on her. She's, is she lovely? Yes. She's so great. And she loves to have dinner parties, and she loves having people over, and she's sort of the mom of the group. And she's, you know, Greek by heritage, so she's very, and this is a generalization, but it's a good one, very warm and welcoming, you know? You just immediately are at ease with her. It feels so exciting and inspiring what you've set up with Hello Sunshine. And also, like, I was doing a bit of a dive in, like, the fact that you've got, like, Sunny as a platform, which is about for Gen Z.

40:58Can you explain a bit more about that? Yeah. So Hello Sunshine is our company where we make movies and television shows for women. Yeah. Based on books written by women. And then we also do live events and we get people together to talk to experts and doctors. And it's a really great sort of continuing education platform for women. So we decided last year, why don't we do this for moms and their daughters? So now we've got a Sunny, that's our brand, and we're going to be doing books, podcasts, and also live events where you can bring your daughter, talk about all the things that nobody wants to talk about, but you really need to address.

41:34Like social media, the show of adolescence. is your mom a big feminist my mom yeah um because it's got a feminist edge to it you know i i would say my mom is very everything that supports women because she worked in women's health care for many many years and was in fertility and she also worked in prenatal nursery um so anything that concerns women's reproductive health or medical wellness is what my mom's biggest concern is That's her passion in life is taking care of women and advocating for them. Okay. When she just feels like people aren't educated enough about their own bodies. So she influenced you.

42:20Oh, for sure. It was really interesting. My grandmother was very academic and literary. She was a school teacher. And then my mom was very medical, nurse-oriented, caring, and service. So I'm kind of a blend between the two of them. And my mom grew up way out in the country and was sort of informal and has sort of country wisdom. And my grandmother was raised really proper. And so I'm sort of a blend of the two of them. How long were you living in Germany? We lived there for four years. Oh, well, I like Priscilla Presley. Yes. My mother loves Priscilla Presley. Does she? Does she know her? No, she wishes she did.

42:59Oh, okay. I just wondered if they met her. Maybe that's the next. No, she's, well, your mother would, no, your grandmother would have been, how old is Priscilla Presley now? I have no idea. Well, she's Riley's mom. Yes, grandma. Grandma, yes, that's right. I'm sure she's late 70s, early 80s. Yeah, she must be, yeah, your grandma's age. And she just has always been so put together. And I think my mother just really loves anybody who's sort of beautiful and enigmatic, like Princess Diana. Jackie O Kate Middleton Whilst you're in London Have you eaten anywhere great? Have you gone to the theatre?

43:41Have you got time? Do you need any recommendations? Oh you're so sweet I'm going to go tomorrow night to see Sean Hayes in the last night of his play Is that the Oscar? Yeah Good Luck Oscar It's at the Barbican I love the Barbican, they've got a good martini bar I've never been there I'm going to go grab a martini and watch Sean Hayes be brilliant well it's like this amazing brutalist um architecture oh and but there is a martini bar in there maybe just pop in you know what i really like to do here i like to go to little restaurants and um i met this chef a few years ago ashma khan she has um i think it's called jarjeeling it's over at near the theater district maybe y 'all can look it up but she has this great Indian restaurant.

44:30That's just like homemade Indian food. It's really lovely. And she's so funny and so brilliant. She came to speak at my conference in LA. I loved her so much. I saw her speaking at another conference and she only hired grandmas and the grandmas cook the food. And she's like, because whenever I would ask somebody in the food business, who's the best cook, you know, and they'd say my grandma. So she was like, why am I hiring anybody but grandma's so i love the whole concept it's really beautiful and then i love melt chocolate milk chocolate melt oh melt it is do you know what melt is i do i got it as a hamper from my record label one christmas and it was very delicious it's a chocolate brand here i think it's in like west london maybe yeah west london and they have it in selfridges and stuff like that i love melt chocolate ever since i made a movie here 18 years ago i've been obsessed with So you're now going to get melt chocolate from everybody.

45:23People already know that I'm obsessed with chocolate. I'm obsessed with making chocolate. I have made chocolate brownies, but I don't think you'll have time to eat them. So I'm going to give you one to take home. Oh, you're so sweet. But it's made with? Aubergine. Okay. Mom's very proud of them. Well, I think that might be interesting. I've never heard of aubergine in a brownie. Neither did I. Is it a chocolate cake or a brownie? It's quite gooey. Okay. Yeah, I guess that's the aubergine. I'm going to get them out of the fridge I need to try it I made you go to all this trouble No you haven't You tell me what you think of those What did you have to do to an aubergine to make it into a brown You bake the aubergine They're all looking at me I'm going to try it too They're good It smells delicious It's chewy It has a chewy consistency Don't tell me that's horrible it's not horrible can you taste its aubergine no no it just makes it tastes good for you oh it's masses of chocolate it's good i think it's quite good it tastes like a health food shop does it for an aubergine brownie it surprised me do you know what i mean that's actually quite delicious but yeah do you guys have vegetarian or vegan friends who just try and pitch their foods to you at all times.

46:46Yeah, I've got a friend who... You're like, I don't think so, honey. Like, I can't. I can't eat a date and you're telling me it tastes like a candy bar. It just doesn't. Jessie tells you it tastes like an old date. No, but you've tried the date in the freezer with the chocolate and the peanut butter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm saying it's good. But it's not Snickers. It's not five stars. No. No. But it, like, it scratches an itch. Uh-huh. exactly it's definitely not the meal replacement that I thought I was going to be well I think these are okay I think they're very nice mum for an aubergine brownie I'm very impressed and I would and I love the little toasted almonds yeah and there's chocolate chip on the top and there's chocolate chip please acknowledge the chocolate chip please please I couldn't see the chocolate chip well you can there the only thing I would say is they were quite gooey when I tried to cut them up but they're not anymore and I had to or Paul Hollywood would put them back in the oven for another 10 minutes to try and make sure no soggy pot yeah um reese before we let you go yes can you give us a nostalgic taste that can transport you back somewhere oh um banana pudding can you explain what banana pudding is please okay banana pudding is banana pudding no i don't know but like scissor loves banana pudding i think you use that kind of not very authentic it's not made with cream you use that kind of mix and add bananas in we have this mix jello mix yeah and you put you put cold milk jello like jelly we not jam like you jello is like the wibble wobble wibble wobble it's not gelatin it's not gelatin so pudding is whipped up milk and eggs and yeah and then you kind of i don't really know what you do with it But it tastes like bananas.

48:39And then they put these little vanilla cookies all around it. That sounds nice. And it's real delicious. And then you put fresh whipped cream on top. And that reminds me of childhood. So there's no base to the banana pudding? There's milk and eggs. But there's not a cakey base? So it's probably like custard, banana custard, yeah. Well, some people lay the cookies out. So you get a casserole dish and you lay the cookies out and you put the pudding over it and then you put the cookies all around. That sounds quite nice. And then you crumble the cookies and then you put the whipped cream and then you kind of let it in the fridge to set.

49:13But you have to cook the milk and the eggs so it doesn't get... Okay. And does this remind you... Can you paint the picture of where you were having this banana pudding? I was at my grandma's house on a Sunday night and we were always there at five o 'clock on Sunday afternoons. And it was just... She'd have out her chafing dishes and she did this whole presentation and it was just really nice. Rhys with the spoon, thank you so much for coming over and being a great sport. And yeah. Thank you so much for this. Such a pleasure. Such a pleasure. You guys are so fun to talk to.

50:02Rhys with the spoon. She's so gorgeous. She looks just like she did in Legally Blonde. She looks like Elle. She's not only gorgeous, she was really lovely and warm and loved you, Mum. Did she, darling? Oh, my God. She couldn't stop watching you as you were, like, shuffling around in the kitchen. I'm not surprised. No. She knows who her star is in the next... Of course, darling. Yeah. She loved you. I loved her. I loved her, too. She's so clever. Bright, really. and generous. I mean, look, we scratched the mere surfaces with Rhys because well, we had an hour and we loved having the hour but we could have kept going about books.

50:46I think we should go to Nashville. Yeah, and go line dancing. Go line dancing with her. Hiya! It's us! We just want to go boot shopping, Rhys. Where are we going for dinner first? What was the name of the place? Prince's Chicken, was it? With the hot chicken? I don't know. We'll have hot chicken i'm gonna get cowboy boots mom i love nashville i've never been oh it's the best i've never met anyone from nashville darling really no oh i've met trombone shorty from new orleans yeah very far away yeah okay it's down that neck of the woods okay sure anyway um thank you teresa for this boom for coming on the podcast for opening up season 18 with such fabulous and Being so fabulous, yeah.

51:28Yeah. The Morning Show is out on Apple TV Plus now. Yeah. It's really good. It's so good. I'm in five episodes and it's absolutely brilliant. Brilliant. We are definitely trying that affogato with pistachio and pistachio cream. Perfect. Gorgeous. Because coffee goes with pistachio. She's our kind of gal, isn't she? Yeah, she is. I think she's everyone's kind of gal. I think she is too. Thank you, Therese. Thank you to everyone that's listening. And we'll see you next week. Thank you.

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