00:00then we're just finding out the name of the dog Jennifer joins us now and the
00:05reason they're excited because the dog's name is his character's Henry yes Henry
00:11in the show yes oh I'm so excited to be here good morning thank you so much for
00:15joining us are you are you having a good time while you're in England oh always
00:20oh we saw 1536 last night oh that cast oh amazing the play on the way that
00:27well talking of amazing this new show is 26 did I just agent no does anyone know 15
00:3336 people that agree we all got the nod from over there and talking of amazing
00:39things this is a great new show you will have so much fun with this show it's made
00:45for you yes you like it as well I'm two episodes in and I don't get me wrong I
00:49absolutely love it I'm intrigued as to what's gonna happen I mean does an
00:53actress get to play with with this group of women we had the best time
00:58everyone on the show has a full arc beginning middle to end so we have this
01:02superstar cast and every single episode is just full of plot drama humor it's
01:09hilarious I mean of course it's gonna be hilarious drama humor and a lot of booze
01:14from what I've seen so far there's a lot of drinking booze actually so five star
01:18weekend is the name of the show talk us through then Jennifer what it is so my
01:22character Hala Shah is a food influencer and she um she's just had a tragedy in
01:27her life she's lost her husband suddenly and she in her process of grieving she
01:32kind of isolated herself so to get back out there she invites her best friend from
01:36childhood her best friend from college from motherhood and then a stranger who
01:41she's met online she invites them all for a weekend in her absolutely gorgeous
01:47Nantucket home it's based on Ellen Hildebrand's book and Ellen's books are so
01:52adaptable they're so full of character and local flavor and plot and drama and so
02:00it's just with these incredible actresses of course Gemma Chan your own
02:05Gemma Chan and Chloe Sevigny and Darcy Carden and Regina Hall who is just
02:11incredible we just saw her in one battle after another so the five of us became
02:15incredibly close and we have the best best time and you really did have yeah we
02:20did best best time because we've actually got some footage of you having oh no
02:25best best time oh no is it oh no um what do you think it is I'm afraid it's karaoke
02:29oh yeah
02:39is this your go-to gentlemen it's your go-to karaoke song when you're doing karaoke it's every
02:44girlfriend's go-to yes and this gentleman had already signed up for the song and he didn't
02:50know who any of us were this is on the island of Nantucket and we'd all had a night out
02:55and we
02:56said we'll just join you so I he might have been the postman or something like that but he was
03:01so
03:01lovely to us we loved him it does look a little bit overwhelmed by his backing yes yeah yeah how
03:07brilliant you get to work on a project like this and get to work with women like that can you
03:12imagine
03:12if though Gemma if he didn't know who you were and he's gone back and someone's filmed it and gone
03:16these women came on the stage it was my moment then he's gone you do know who that is don't
03:20you
03:20that would be so brilliant if it hadn't been his third or fourth song of the night he wouldn't have
03:24been was he hugging the mind he was having a good time yeah yeah yeah and was this an automatic
03:29yes
03:29for you because of all the food kind of well your pretend kitchen which is so much fun I love
03:36how you
03:36keep the bits that go wrong well I mean if I didn't I wouldn't have much to show this is
03:42pretend
03:42cooking show on this my Instagram channel yeah I I love food I love cooking I mean I started a
03:48food
03:48company once upon a farm and which is now in Whole Foods in Metro London which is big for us
03:53to cross
03:54the pond but I've always been a food person my mom cooked everything at home so I cook online and
04:00it's
04:01usually a little bit of a disaster but my belief is people taste the love cook it anyway don't worry
04:07my character Hollis is a much better she's very put together yes she is yeah her food always looks
04:17good mine always looks a bit like a kindergartners been helping me which is the best way right yeah of
04:21course and are you are you a good sort of teacher when it comes to cooking as well for the
04:27I I'm encouraging
04:29no because yeah because you are a really good cook you love your cooking well I do I watch cooking
04:36shows in kind of the same way that you do I think wait you find them relaxing well that's why
04:40I watch
04:41them I love Ina Garten yes she's the best she's just she's just the best every cookbook of hers I
04:49have memorized as a matter of fact when I'm with Ina I'll say you know this recipe and then she'll
04:54say
04:54yes and I'll say Ina it's from cooking it I'm barefoot at home and she's like Jennifer you know
04:59them better than I do it's true but I do I find it so relaxed I started watching them when
05:04I was
05:04happy when I was pregnant so it stopped me from getting into my own head yes and I started kind
05:09of watching and then and you learn a lot from watching oh so much like what herbs go with what
05:15so Hollis Shaw was a automatic yes for me yes to get to work with five women and to get
05:22to go to
05:23Nantucket which I we all fell totally in love with and people say are you nervous to work with
05:28other women and we all of us we didn't know each other at all and we became you know fast
05:34friends
05:35our group chat blows up every day no one's allowed to see it um but yes it was really magical
05:42so like
05:43Hollis was was a character that you've always aspired the TV chef I love Sydney in alias and the fact
05:49that that as a CIA officer you ended up becoming sort of a recruitment tool for the CIA yes I
05:55went to
05:56the CIA once and they said everyone is who is here because of the Sydney effect they call the effect
06:03that stand up and this whole group of women stood up around the same age who had watched alias growing
06:11up isn't that an honor that is an honor yeah but also you quite often do things like that like
06:17you
06:17make massive differences in people's lives like it's like love simon oh do you do you get people
06:24coming up to you and going look you know that's what makes me cry is thinking about love simon and
06:29what it means to people and how lucky I am and grateful I am that Greg Berlanti asked me to
06:35play
06:36that role to get to be the mum in that scene the mom to get to be the mom in
06:43that scene saying the
06:44right thing has been just such a lucky lucky gift for me talking of gifts we're gonna make your dreams
06:52come true and as because we're gonna take you over to our kitchen come on you're gonna you're gonna
06:58actually create something for us she's excited I am excited so what is it that you're doing for us so
07:07this was a very popular pretend cooking show that I did I don't make up my own recipes this is
07:13by Alison
07:14Roman of the New York Times okay so if you mix together dry ingredients we have all-purpose flour we
07:21have whole wheat flour and then some ginger turmeric cinnamon and nutmeg okay so over here we've got
07:41pumpkin eggs maple syrup brown sugar you can't go wrong and I'll have those dry ingredients please you
07:48can miss Ghana thank you right away what's this in there as well on TV oh that's for later okay
07:56that's for the thing I don't think you're meant to play with the food I can tell we do have
08:04chefs
08:04that forget stuff occasionally so the professional ones forget things I would hate for you to it's
08:08quite a lot all at once isn't it oh now it's fine so then this was brown butter that solidified
08:14a
08:14little but that'll be fine is that okay okay that's how she does it all the time it's like yeah
08:19that'll work I'll pour the hot water in next time when I've got it in the oven cutting the chicken
08:26open
08:27oh that makes me happy all right so we're gonna scoop this around boop-a-doo just fold it all
08:35in yeah you
08:36don't want to overdo it she whistles she sings okay we're gonna do this right here yep bonk I've got
08:44an ice
08:44scream scoop yeah cuz then it's all even oh look at that which is not very this is very five
08:51-star
08:52good job this is five-star weekend this is me so I really do hope you guys enjoy it's on
09:01Sky TV here I
09:03believe yeah yes yes yeah yeah 16th of July it's gonna be on sky and now oh 16th of July
09:10yes do you
09:11know what's fun is yesterday was our first day talking to journalists and they kept saying that
09:17they had watched more than they were supposed to oh yeah they were in oh yeah I'm for it it's
09:22very
09:22addictive well it's the peeling back of the onion is oh it's a disaster everything goes to hell in a
09:28hand basket now you know what's go in the oven you know what the immortal line is don't you which
09:33one if you do one more and then I'll should I put that in the oven for you yeah that's
09:36fine and then
09:37how do we taste them oh here's one I made earlier here we go where is it here we go
09:50oh that's what
09:55yes oh wow very honored to be trying it's my first a pumpkin pumpkin muffin made here in your country
10:07well that's that's probably not true mmm delicious thank you yeah it's not too sweet that's what I like
10:18about it no no no absolutely and these favorite with the kids yeah yeah yeah they're a regular I can
10:23see why thank you Jennifer for coming in and thank you for being such a sport it's been a great
10:29sport
10:29we've loved it oh yeah I know I've enjoyed it so much will you come back and cook some more
10:34for
10:34us well yeah you've got to invite me I've only been out in the world 30 years it's about time
10:38you guys
10:39invite me here this time next week yeah I'll see you next time guys you got it
