WEBVTT - Emily Blunt 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.080 Welcome to River Cafe Table four, a production of iHeartRadio 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:05.400 and Adami Studios. 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:12.880 This is River Cafe Table four with me Ruthie Rogers. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.920 On River Cafe Table four, I talk to friends who 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.840 know the River Cafe well about food, the food they cook, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.840 the food they eat, the food of their memories. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.120 Pennae with zucchini and lemon zest Serve six. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:42.920 This week I have wonderful, beautiful, brilliant, few adjectives emily plant. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:48.400 One kilo medium zucchini, yellow, green or ridged. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.839 In each episode, my guest reads a recipe they have 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.120 chosen from one of our cookbooks. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.880 Two tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, two hundred and fifty 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:05.920 grams unsalted butter, one garlic clove, peeled and thinly sliced, 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:12.319 three hundred and fifty grams penne. One bunch fresh mint leaves, 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:19.560 roughly torn, two lemons, preferably Amalfi. Wash and trim the 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.600 zucchini and cut into small pieces, and in a large saucepan, 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.360 heat the olive oil with one hundred grams of the butter. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:33.120 Add the zucchini and stir season well. Adding the garlic. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.520 Cook gently, stirring from time to time for twenty minutes. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.559 Bring a pot of salted water to the boil, Add 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.840 the penne to the water, and cook ten minutes or 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:51.000 until al dente. Drain and add the zucchini, Add the 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.920 remaining butter and the mint leaves. Mix thoroughly great, lemon 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.120 zest on top. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:04.440 Thank you, Emily. Here we are in the River Cafe, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.160 late afternoon, looking at the restaurant, getting ready actually for 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.040 the evening service. 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:09.720 Can't wait. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.080 I'm so happy that you chose this recipe because it 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.280 is one of my favorites. Actually, I say that most 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.200 times that the recipe is my favorite, but this one is. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.360 And I was wondering why this recipe do you cook it? 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.640 Honestly, it just has three of my favorite things in it, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.680 so any I just wanted to pick one of your 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.720 pasta dishes because it is my ultimate favorite thing and 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.320 what I crave most. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.560 And did you grow up eating pasta? Yes, the food child, but. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.480 It was more like spaghetti, you know my mom. My 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.240 mom did tell me, well, God bless her. She had 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.680 four kids, and I'm sure we were all wanting different things, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.880 and she just had so many kids in so little 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.040 time that very often she'd be like you know, you 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.760 get what you get and you don't get upset. But 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.240 I do have this lasting memory of her spaghetti bolonnaise 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.480 and then always wanting just pasta with butter and cheese 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.480 as well. So she would always let us have the 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.000 pasta with the butter and cheese if we had the 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.600 bolonnaise first. And I find myself doing it to my kids, 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.040 I will bribe them. They've got to have the sauce 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.320 pasta and then they can have just the butter and 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:10.600 che cheese. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.520 And when kids come to the River Cafe for lunch families, 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.000 you know, two pasta, butter and cheese. But in fact 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:17.880 it is really delici. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.320 It's actually delicious. No, I have to be careble not 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.440 to shovel it into my mouth as I'm serving it 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.560 to them. They love lasagna, they love I mean, I've 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.679 always made them all kinds of pasta, sauces, and I'll 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.640 sneak all kinds of things in there and try and 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.840 get it past them. My oldest one will try most things, steak, chicken. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.280 Neither of them want the fish apart from sushi fish. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.240 It's funny about yeah, I know, my stepson said fish. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:44.480 It was about thirty I. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.280 Think it's so weird. I don't know why. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.560 Fish maybe where they look, or maybe. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.080 The b they look. To be honest, I think it 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.400 is more the way they look. They kind of envision 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.960 what they look and it kind of roastes them out. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.160 Yeah, we were once Increase. It was about four and 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.440 it was fishing. It'd stand there all day. We made 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.760 with this little fishing rod in the harbor, and in 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.160 the end, Richard, my husband, actually went to the market 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.440 and bought a fish and we all dove put the 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.880 fish on the hook, and then I think he never 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:14.400 ate a fish again for a long time. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.560 We had a fishing experience in Martha's Vineyard, where we 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.200 liked to go every summer because John's from Boston and 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.200 his whole family is sort of around there, and it's 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.120 a magical place. Mouths beautiful, absolutely love it's so bizarre 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.840 and bohemian special. But we took the kids fishing and 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.159 Hazel pulled in a fish and it flopped around on 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.080 the deck and she screamed. She never recovered. She was like, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.240 it's bleeding, Like it was awful. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.680 It's very real. So did they cook with you? Did 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:39.760 they come in there? They do? 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.640 I make this chicken noodle soup that they really love. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:43.560 How do you make that? 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.240 Well, I actually used ginger in it, and it has 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.680 this kind of richness to it. Either I'll use leftover 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.240 roast chicken, or I'll sort of sear her or some 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.919 chicken thigh. I usually like using chicken thighs bonus skinless. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.440 They're like a dream on there. You can kind of 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.080 put them in thing and it's got carrots and celery 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:06.520 and onions and beautiful chicken stock, wine and those egg noodles, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:07.800 and they just love it. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.440 I always say you should always have chicken soup around. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.880 I always have a part of chicken soup because there 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.400 is something so sustaining about it. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.279 Yeah, it's very Moorish. It was one of the first 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:18.640 things I made for John. I think the. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.880 Chicken soup. I think it's always interested the food we 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.520 cook for an occasion. You know, Yes, I was going 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.240 to want to do a book called What to Cook 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.360 When when you're depressed, when you're broke, when you want 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.440 us to do somebody when you don't have somebody important 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.159 coming to dinner? Did you think about that when you 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:36.960 were cooking for him? 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.320 Well, it's funny, I guess they just made that. I 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.520 knew he would love, like I mean a roast chicken. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.440 Who doesn't love roast chicken. And the roast chicken I 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.599 love is Ina Garten's roast chicken. It's called it her 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.000 engagement chicken because I think when people make it for people, 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.719 they get engaged or something. Lemon, garlic, onions up the chicken, thyme, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.320 salt and pepper, all that, and you scatter onions around 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.400 the chicken, but you pack them in really tight into 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.680 the tray and then you roast them really high about 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.800 an hour and twenty minutes and they're done and they're perfect. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.080 And then when you take the chickens out, you then 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.919 kind of cute in some wine and some butter and 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.240 into that onion eque garlicy mixture. Oh my gods, divine, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.040 it's really sticky and yummy, and then they fell in love. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:22.680 That's it. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:24.680 That's it, that's all it took. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.160 But were you going out tell me more about your 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.400 did you rather work or? She had four kids and 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:31.719 so her cooking was well. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.880 So she was an actress when Fie and I were 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.080 very little, and then she just had too many kids. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.760 She had two more after me and Fee and then 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.000 I think, you know, really felt she needed to be 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.679 home with us. I don't know if she loved cooking 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.120 because it was more of a chore for her with kids, 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.960 being like, I don't like risotto. I don't you know. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.160 I think it's probably like a bit joyless at times. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.919 Did she teach you how to do her recipes? 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:55.880 She did, but she sort of is a bit of 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.000 a just bung it all in So was it very British? 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.200 They're very British in general. And then definitely every Sunday 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.120 was the religion of the Sunday roast. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.840 What was that? As an American, I'm really intrigued by 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.280 the whole British Sunday lunch. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.480 Well, it's like Christmas Dinner, Thanksgiving. Yeah, Sunday, Every Sunday 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.280 we would either have roast beef, roast lamb, roast chicken, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.880 or roast pork. It was one of those. Always a roast, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.640 always a roast, and then we would have roast potatoes 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.000 with the beef. You'd have Yorkshire puddings, we'd have everything. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.880 We'd have the bread, sauce, we'd have vegetables, we'd have gravy. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.240 I mean, I just have this lasting memory in my 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.880 dad's plate, just like swimming in Great swimming In. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.400 Emily talked about Sunday roast when she was a child. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.120 So when we're roasting meat here, we like to sear 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.800 the meat and get a good color on all sides. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.080 And then often we'll put it into the wood oven 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.800 and get a dry heat into it to start the 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.120 cooking process. And then maybe after ten or fifteen minutes, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.080 we can go in with hard herb, whether it's rosemary, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.440 sage bay, and if it wants a splash of wine 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.840 or water. Now this is the same weather we're making 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:14.160 slow roasted veal, spatchcock chickens, pot roasted beef, Philip. This 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:15.960 is the way that we like to do it. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.800 So when you're growing up with this really important food 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.360 tradition in your house of sitting down to dinner that 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.960 your mother goes, what age did you kind of leave? 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.439 Did you go to university here and stay home or 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.960 did you go abroad? 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.600 Or so I am the only person in my family 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.640 who didn't go to university because when I was about seventeen, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.120 I did this play with my school and an agent 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:48.880 came to see the play and he said, I think 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.760 you're really good. You should do this. And I really 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.040 had a cavalier attitude towards it because I was like, oh, okay, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.920 I'm not worrying. I wasn't really thinking about being an actress. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.400 I was sort of wanting to go to university and 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.319 do languages like I always loved Spanish and French and 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.120 my mum's an amazing linguist and yeah, brilliant British speaks 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.920 like three languages. And so I was sort of inspired 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.520 by that and wanted to do that. And then he said, well, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.280 why don't you give it a go? And I'd also 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.760 seen from my mother how tough the industry was, you know, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.720 I didn't have a rose tinted gaze towards it. I'd 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.760 seen how damaging it can be. It's so personal, you know. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:27.960 So I was like, okay, we I'll give it a go, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.600 but I don't really know if I want to do it. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.240 I can't believe I was talking like that now, because 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.800 I truly am madly in love with it. But anyway, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.640 I tried it. I auditioned. I got my first job 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.079 when I was eighteen, once I was out of school, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.720 which was a play with Dane Judy Dench and she 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.280 was just divine to me, and so Peter Hall directed it. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.000 I mean it was just mad. I was just such 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.959 a love the royal family. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.400 It's like, no twenty years. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.880 Yeah, it's based on the Barrymores. The fictional family is 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:57.360 called the Cavendishes. And yeah, so quite soon after that, 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.280 around eighteen nineteen, I got my own place. I just 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.240 cut Yeah, I got my own place in Parsons Green 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.120 and I was so green. I mean I just like 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:06.880 went and looked at it, and I just liked the 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.880 look of the colors on the walls. So I just 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.720 went with it. And my mom came over and she 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.760 was like, is there any heating in here? And I 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.280 realized there was no central heating in the apartment, and 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:18.880 I was like, oh, I just got a case. The 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.679 walls were really cool, because I. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.880 Think that's a good criteria. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.400 It was a happy place. It just was freezing and 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.720 that's very young ETI yeah, it was young. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.280 And then did you cook at all? Did you still 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:31.400 want to eat? Yeah? 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.160 Yeah, I mean I do. Remember before I did the play. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.200 I mean, you're going to be horrified to hear this, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.160 because I haven't had one since I used to go 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.400 every night to Burger King and get a double cheeseburger 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.160 before I went on stage. I don't know how I 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:46.679 went on stage to two hours after that. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.280 I was going to ask you, you know, because it 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.920 is intriguing. You know, we all think about how we 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.199 work and how we eat and when we when we work, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.640 and how we sort of fit all that in, and 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.120 so if you are in the theater you weren't there, 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:00.920 would you still do that now that you would eat 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.680 before going on stage? 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.920 She would like, I'm someone who needs to eat all day. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.440 I'm not someone who can have three meals a day. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.840 I feel like I'm usually hungry most of the time, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.560 and so I tried to do sort of four to 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.600 five smaller meals throughout the day. But yeah, I couldn't 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.200 eat a double cheeseburger with fries now and not want 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.080 to go and have a nap. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:22.240 But you would eat. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.679 I was eighteen, so I was like, it's fine. So 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.800 I would get to the theater around I don't know. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.360 I guess we would go on at seven thirty, so 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.040 I would eat at like six fifteen, and just disgusting 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.600 every night. Every night, I was obsessed with it. It 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.800 was my favorite thing. I get the Tube Incadilly Circus. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.920 I go to Burger King and go straight to the theater. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.880 I probably stank of burgers and Judy Dench noticed that 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:49.480 you were smelling of a Burger King. Burger so lovely here, 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.320 Like every night after the show, she would bring me 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.040 into her dressing room and there'd be so many like 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.520 famous people in there, and I was like, what, Like 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.640 I was a kid. I mean it was amazing. And 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.760 Peter Bowls was in it. Do you know him? 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:02.920 I remember? Yeah? 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:04.120 And he took me to the. 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.280 Ivy for the first Yeah, yeah, do you remember that? 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.439 I do? I remember it. I mean I'd never been 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.439 to a restaurant like that before. It was mad. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.679 Did you go to restaurants with your parents? 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.640 If I remember on a Friday night we would go 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.800 for a Chinese Great Lehampton and Crispy Duck pancakes, And 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.960 I remember just being obsessed with that kind of thing 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.800 growing up. But I feel it's a more common thing 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.080 for people to take their kids out to cafes and 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:29.800 restaurants now. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:31.559 Yeah, And I think that you know, as you say, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.160 can be the pane butter and cheese, but sometimes, you know, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.920 I was once amazed we had an eight year old 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.040 who ordered a grouse. No, they were Italian, but. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:46.320 Oh see, that's incredible. It was even Stanley and Fee 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.439 like Stanley who is you know, fist of food. Even 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.000 his little kids, like they have about five things they 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.360 really love and he's like, come on, like I made 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.360 a lasagna for my kids yesterday and Hazel loves it 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.000 and everything. But Violet, my little one who's for she 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.880 was really like, no, I just want the plane lasagna. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.439 I just want blanket pasta, she calls it. But I said, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:07.760 come on, you got to try it and then I'll 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.160 give you the blanket pasta. And then she looks at it. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.400 She goes, it looks like a cake. I said, there 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.240 you go, and then she loved it. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.800 Yeah. What about when you leave them and you go 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:17.920 to do a film. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.400 Well, normally they're with me when I work, but it's 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.040 hard during school time. And now they're both in school. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.800 Like when they were little, like it kind of dragged 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.520 them around anyway, but now they kind of have to 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.480 be a bit more stable. So they're going to stay 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.880 in London as school. And I'm doing this six part 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:38.280 Western which I'm completely thrilled by. It's heart racing piece 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.199 it's sort of as violent as it is witty. It's real. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.680 It's written by Hugo Blick, and it was brought to 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.320 me about two years ago. We got delayed because of COVID, 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.280 but I truly read the first page and I was like, 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.280 I'm going to be doing this. 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:53.920 This is about the first case. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.760 It's so dynamic and arresting and beautiful. You just know 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.360 the writing. It's all about the writing for me. Now, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.760 I'm just realizing you just cannot make a good movie 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.839 out of a bad script. And there's conflict and intrigue 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.680 and something different. I'm in. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:08.760 Are there other women? 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.400 There's a couple of other really cool female parts. There's 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.880 a lot of boys. It's like a very but it's 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.880 partly because she is presented as this aristocratic woman is 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.840 a real fish out of water in this brutal, masculine 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.000 world in eighteen ninety. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.360 Do you eat on the film set? They do good 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:24.160 food or is it? 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.240 It depends where you are, And I've been someplace it's 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.320 not very good. But we're in Spain, so maybe they might. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:31.400 Yeah, they might do that. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.840 Sometimes I just try and make my own thing, and 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.720 I'll bring my crop part and whip something up during 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.680 the day, so I've got something waiting for me when 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.400 I get home. But I think when I'm working, I 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.840 don't tend to eat sort of pasta and bread because 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.680 it just makes me so sluggish. So I'm obsessed with rice. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.040 Right about rice? 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.080 It is one of my favorite things. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.920 Like, yeah, what do you love about rice? 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.880 I love the taste of it. I love that you 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.800 can put anything with it. I love all kinds of rice. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.800 I love that you can soak it in stut like 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.120 I have this meso soaked black rice that this chef 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:04.960 I know does for me. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.320 I understand that Emily loves rice. So here at the restaurant, 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.720 we use two different risotto rices. One is carnioli, the 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.880 other is violona nano rice. The cornorroli we generally use 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.240 with chicken stock, and this can go with a variety 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.840 of things mushrooms, artochokes, greens, and then the smaller, fatter grain, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.440 which is the violano nano rice, we use with fish stocks. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:40.080 When I interviewed Michael Kane, he said that he'd never 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.320 done a deal for a movie that was in any 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.080 place other than a restaurant. Everything that was decided was 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.160 decided in his day, you went to the IVY or 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.440 two like with your age, with your agent, with the producer. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.480 Somebody's trying to convince you to be in a movie, 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.600 and it was done. And I always think it's interesting 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.000 how people going back to restaurants, how people use restaurants. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.720 Some people use it to you announce that they want 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.360 a divorce, so they want to fire someone. You can 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.080 do a very private thing in a public space. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.280 Do you know, I do see what you're saying about 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:15.240 that people do use restaurants. I think for me in Hollywood, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.160 like everyone meets in restaurants. Like I've met cast members 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.040 for the first time in a restaurant. I've met producers, directors. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.840 That's normally how I've met people. It's only recently sort 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.320 of over zoom or a phone call that it's very 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.720 new to me because I do need to sit with 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.120 someone and get a sense of them and get a 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.880 sense of the vibe and whether our energy is going 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.160 to be good, whether it's going to be copa setic 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.840 and a cool experience. And I'm always interested what people 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.960 eat and what they want or what they drink, like 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.600 if they'll have a glass of wine, yeah, if they 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.160 won't like, so if it's an evening sit down, I'll 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.400 definitely have a drink, you know, if it's someone I've 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.240 never met before, because it's a bit nerve wracking as well. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.760 But a restaurant it is that safe, atmospheric, buzzy place 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.320 where if there's a lull income conversation, it doesn't matter. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.120 There's always stuff around you that you can feed off. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.240 You know who there was somebody I was swill to 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.720 or that said he absolutely did not like going into 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.560 a quiet restaurant. No, that you need that safety, and 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.679 I think that's why people do things. It might be 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.040 like firing somebody or breaking up because you can't throw 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:23.439 a frying pan the sentence, you know, really there's a 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.840 kind of behavior. But then also I think that a 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:27.679 lot of people do go for a first date in 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.120 the restaurant because it does tell you something, doesn't It 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.200 how the person needs, how they treat the waiter, whether 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.760 they say thank you when they buat something down. It's 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:36.320 kind of does. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.560 It's very true. And I'm always aware of how people 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.159 are with because I feel sometimes everyone's nice to me, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.920 but I always watch how people are with the pas 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.760 on set and how are you with people working in 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.720 a restaurant, like I want to get a real sense 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.359 of who people are is how they are with everybody. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.520 Did you ever work in a restaurant? No? 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.840 But I did work in a catering company. This amazing 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.640 friend of my mother's alwageous catering company that she does, 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.080 and she would I am Fee and I to be 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:05.399 her waitresses. Really yeah, it was fun actually because the 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.800 food was so good. She'd feed us like extraordinary food. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.960 And I have this lasting memory of a quail leg 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:15.760 cannope with hollandaise over it and on this little krusty Christina. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.840 Fee and I used to just steal them. We used 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.880 to like pop them like pills. I mean, we loved them. 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:22.880 But I have that memory of the quail leg. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.159 It is interesting just this conversation is about memory. You know, 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.760 you might now remember so many things about that experience, 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.399 but the quails comes right. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.240 Fact, I do remember turning up one time and I 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.520 was wearing these really ugly sandals and I had a 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.399 chipped blue nail polish. I was like sixteen, and she 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.679 thought I looked so unpresentable. I had to wash dishes 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:47.320 all night. She was like the best place for you? 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.919 Did that? And I was like, and what about the 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.639 politics of food, you think about sustainability or about giving 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.240 your kids organic food or arms. Martha's Vineyard has so 0:18:58.320 --> 0:18:59.040 many good farms. 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.400 Watch is fun. Yes, they have the most beautiful produce 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.679 and eggs and cheese. And in Brooklyn it's harder. I 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.120 find the produce is so much better in the UK. 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:10.040 Better here. 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.560 Yes, it's so real, Like the carrots are all wonky, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.040 they taste right, like the strawberries, the berries. Everything is 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.520