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SPEAKER: That French chef of yours is really something.
Where is she, by the way?
Oh! Oh.
Julia, she's taking a holiday.
And everyone at GBH is waiting for her to come back.
Any tiny hints you can give me
about what you're thinking for season two?
She needs to be reinspired and reinvigorated
so she can come back with fresh ideas.
Hello, Kansas City!
CHRIS KEYSER: Julia's got a much more complicated relationship with France
because it's her history.
It's where she changed from a housewife to a professional.
Maybe if we went back to where it all started.
DANIEL GOLDFARB: We start in Provence
with working on the cookbook,
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, part two.
She has this moment in the first episode
where she eats a really exciting new dish that blew her mind.
Oh, it's delicate, light as a balloon,
and entirely new.
She became obsessed with recreating it herself.
Well, that's disappointing.
DANIEL: It is a life-changing moment for her,
and that's how we launch the season.
Now you've lost your mind.
Yes, and what if I have?
All these people come together,
and it's a little bit of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
A summer night with love, and food, and magic.
All of these extraordinary people having this chance
to feast at the table of life.
And then, we went to Paris.
It's alive, it's thriving.
Filming in Paris is kinda like filming in New York.
You can point a camera anywhere you want,
and you're going to see something
glorious and fascinating.
Beautiful countryside, stunning buildings.
A real love and respect for art and for food.
You have a little hot chocolate mustache.
-(CHUCKLES) -So do you.
We're into that mid-60s, where everything in the world
is beginning to change.
I want to start taking more control over my life,
and not just making accommodations for other people.
In terms of food, in terms of marriage,
in terms of social and political changes in the country,
in terms of feminism.
And this is by women, for women.
Russ, he's got the opportunity to create this docuseries.
Vietnam. We inform, you decide.
It's exciting, but also, it's nerve wracking.
Taking on subjects of this magnitude?
I want to get it right.
CHRIS: Success changes you, failure changes you.
Everything changes.
Julia can't stay in the same place.
Because if she stays in the same place
while the world is moving forward,
she's moving backward.
Hunter wants to do something called product placement.
I'm not a salesman. I'm a teacher.
Julia is really inspiring because she is a woman
that is standing in her own power and strength.
She's not trying to be anybody else.
She's authentically herself.
Life doesn't come to you
when you're six foot two and look like me.
GBH people feel their jobs are on the line
to come up with another hit.
Alice brilliantly orchestrates getting Julia
into the White House for a White House special.
The real White House special that Julia made
did win an Emmy. It was a big deal.
None of them though that this middle-aged woman
talking about cooking would be the thing
that brought GBH national recognition.
She's getting opportunities to go bigger and expand.
Russ has the opportunity to realize his dream.
There's really compelling plot points.
While you were working on the details of this one show,
I'm tasked with saving the entire station.
DAVID: Season two, it's got more of everything.
Specifically with Paul and Julia's past
and their involvement in the government
and some darker chapters that get explored
and finally revealed.
CHRIS: The heart of the story is Julia's enthusiasm for life,
second chances,
the idea that you can make something
at any point of your life
as long as you throw yourself in with all your heart.
You feel as if the story is all around you.
It transports you, and it's magical.
JULIA CHILD: Now, if you'll excuse me,
I have a show to make.
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