--Hey, y'all! My name is Desi Oakley,
and I play Jenna Hunterson in the national tour of
Waitress and you are watching episode 7 of Pie a la Road. In this episode, we
celebrate Nick Bailey's birthday. You will meet some other members of the cast
who share their two truths in a pie. And you will meet a very special guest.
--Howdy
y'all! We are in Fort Worth, Texas this week. And
we just found out that we will not be able to go to Louisville next week
because of a fire that happened to the theater there at the Kentucky Performing
Arts Center, and we are just devastated. So we want you to know on behalf of the
national tour of Waitress that we are so sorry we can't bring this amazing story
to you in Louisville, to our Louisville community.
So yeah, the the tour will be taking a week break, and yeah we just wanted to
say we're so sorry that we can't be there. We're all bummed. We were all
looking forward to being there that's absolutely for sure. So just a
shout out to Louisville. We love you. --Hi I'm Kyra Kennedy
--Okay and what do you
do in Waitress on tour? -- I'm Francine and I
understudy Jenna and Dawn.
--Beautiful amazing. So we're playing two truths in a pie which means you tell us
two truths about yourself and then your pie can be a little slice of advice or a
little slice of life.
Okay your two truths -- I'm from Oklahoma
--Great. Love it
--And I love cats, but that doesn't mean I'm anti dog. I like them both. My pie...
--What's your little -- Leave you with advice that my mother
gave me which is nobody is
all good, and nobody is all bad.
--Oh, I love that. --Yeah she's a she's a good one.
--That was it something that your mom taught you?
I love that no one is all good and no one is all bad.
--Okay Betsy Ross. We are
playing two truths and a pie
--Okay -- So two truths about yourself. They can be
little-known are very well known and then a little pie like we have a lot of
aspiring actors and actresses and or people don't want to work in this
business, who view this this vlog. And yeah give us a little give a give
us your go. What's your two truths and a pie? --Well, I made the first American flag... I'm
just kidding. I'm going to answer as myself.
--[laughs]
--Okay I am from the valley in Los Angeles, so I am a real-life
valley girl,.
--Yes you are --My favorite food is Thai food. And a a two truths
but now my pie --Your little like something just I know a
little even like even how you got to be where you are now. I mean just like
--Okay I got one I got one.
moderation, even moderation..
--Hi! --Hi
ensemble. I'm Jerrianne Perez, and I understudy
Francine, Nurse Norma, and Dawn --Yes amazing
tell us two little things about yourself they can be little-known or very well
known, and then your pie which is your little slice of life or slice of advice.
We have a lot of aspiring you know actors and actresses that watch this
vlog, of course, and you know maybe or even just a little slice of how you got
to where you are. So let's play --Cool. Two truths... I have three Huskies that look
like direwolf's from Game of Thrones.
moved around a bunch, pie... ah self love pie
on the two on tour that are like self love for yourself?
--Bathes --Bathes
and watch a little TV a while you soak --Love it.
--Thank you Jerrianne thanks for playing you rock --Of course, thanks you guys. Mwah
what do you do with Waitress on tour? --I'm Bryan Fenkhart, I'm Dr. Pommater
on tour --Lovely okay so we're playing
you tell us two truths about yourself. They can be fun facts or something silly
or really cool about you or anything and then your little pie just like the
slice of life
but I've been a professional wrestling fan since I was 10, and still am,
which if you know my age is pretty embarrassing. Another truth... I one time I
what did you know my age is pretty embarrassing another truth I one time I
elbow, and then I kept shooting for the rest of the day
I was trying something stupid that I shouldn't have tried.
without like your head going through the roof? --Yeah well I didn't know I didn't
know I broken it yet, until I couldn't pick up a bottle of water and then I realized it
really tough. --I guess. Or stupid
really tough I'm impressed with that information.
--So, now give us a little like slice of life this is your little pie which means you know anything
younger self or or an aspiring artist?
You just said something
my younger self Man like I know this isn't gonna really register probably
but don't worry about being popular. It really doesn't matter. I know it seems so
but don't worry about being popular it really doesn't matter I know it seems so
of your life at all. Really, if anything, you should
of your life at all really if anything you should
else. You know instead of trying to fit in, try to stand out.
our friend Bailey has made me. This is a custom-made pop doll by just a pop and
it is a personalized Jenna doll I'm losing my mind!
and she has a bang.
--I hope I know everybody in another 31 years! --31?
--Okay y'all it is my pleasure to introduce to you our very special guests
here on paella Road ladies and gentlemen drum roll please welcome Jenna Hunterson
--No no my pleasure thanks for having me.
here. So yeah what's your name and what do you do?
I work at a pie diner, Joe's pie's diner we serve a bunch of different pies and
make the pie's and I also wait the tables you know great the customers and
take the orders and do all that stuff, too. --So what do you do for fun?
Hmm make pies?
you do for a living. What do you do for fun?
--Okay well Becky dragged me do it karaoke bar once. That was fun. I'm a terrible
singer I'm a terrible singer. She's a good singer though she's sang a Mariah
Carey song and blew us out of the water. That was fun once. Um I don't know I play
Carey song and blew us out of the water that was fun was Once.
I don't know I play
solitaire.
--So do you have a beauty routine? Take us through kind of what you
do for your beauty rituals?
--Oh, what? --Like a beauty routine
--A beauty routine okay
no I mean I use a bar soap in the shower and I put lotion on my face if it's dry
Dawn gave me this chapstick but she bought that like saves Turtles or
something, I guess if you bought a tube of chapstick it saves a turtle, and so
I'll use that sometimes smells good
--So take us through a typical day in the
life of Jenna Hunterson. what is what does that look like? Typical
day for me. Let's see I wake up around 6:00 a.m. each day I make Earl coffee,
make his lunch, and if he eats it. He sometimes just picks up Taco Bell
instead but that's alright make it anyway, and I get to work around 7:00
he'll drop me off, unless it's Tuesday's I'll take the bus.
And then I'm in the pantry right away. I make anywhere between 7 to 15 pies each
day we have 27 out for everyone, and so just
depends on the pies, if they last anywhere between two to five days and
yeah so I make making them all and I work I work most of the day till around
4:00 and get home and clean up whatever mess Earl made and you know make dinner
and go to bed do it all over again the next day.
--And how did you meet your
husband?
--Yeah I met Earl in high school he was playing in the band, and after
school my friend Mandy dragged me to one of his shows, and we met and he was
playing the guitar. He was cute, yeah that's how we met. The rest is history.
--Do you have any advice for any aspiring pie makers? Maybe pie makers that kind of
want to be as good as you are?
--Advice for pie makers. Well, okay if you
want a flaky crust you need to use ice-cold water instead of just regular
tap room temperature water. That's what makes it happen when you pour it in to
start making the dough with the flour. It's gotta be ice-cold that's what makes
it the flakiest. My mama would kill me cuz that's her secret.
--Okay do you have a
favorite pie?
--I can't have a favorite pie.
--Come on yes you have to have a favorite
or one that you're really proud of or something come on what's your favorite
pie?
--Um, if I did I don't know... I have a pie I was most proud of. There's the
middle school I made it. Those were some hard years. It was called
the invisible cream pie and I used evaporated milk. --What would you say if I
told you that there would be a musical written about you and your life?
--If someone what? Made a musical about me? That's crazy.
Like singing and stuff? yeah like a musical like you know if someone just wrote a
musical about you well what would what would you say? -- I don't know. I guess I'd
hope it'd be about pie
--So with a lot of people recently I've been playing this
game to truths and a pie which is what I kind of telling you about before we
started this interview, and I was wondering if you wanted to play. So the
two truths in a pie are kind of two things about yourself and then a little
pie is like a little slice of advice. So what are your two truths?
--Two truths and a pie okay um... a truth? I'm an only child. Another truth, I started a fire in
Joe's pie diner once. It was so small and I'll put it out immediately but I have
not told anybody that, not even Becky. It was I just had lost
track of time on one of the pies and it was anyway I
put it out and everything's fine. Um slice of life slice of advice?
--Yeah what's like some advice that you you know have been given or that you
would give you know to somebody else? Just a little slice of life.
--I don't know.
My mama always said hold those that are dear to you close, and be kind.
-- I think that was really lovely Jenna Louise Hunterson
you are a gem and we are so grateful that you could join us on Pie A La Road
thank you for taking the time out of your very busy schedule to answer some
questions. I think that everyone's gonna really enjoy all of your answers, and so
we're really grateful thank you for joining us.
--Hey y'all thank you so much for watching Pie A la Road it is so much fun to take
you backstage and to create this for you and it wouldn't exist if it wasn't for
viewers like you and for Broadway.com so shout out to Broadway.com for airing
these episodes and for letting me play along. We only have one episode left, so
uh yeah tune in next time. It's gonna be a blast. You still have a couple more
cast members to meet, and I'm gonna show you what it's like backstage a little
bit more and we're gonna wrap up this series. Thank you guys so much for
watching. See you next time.