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How Da’Vine Joy Randolph Literally Cooked Her Way to an Oscar Win · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: It's up to a skilled actor to make you forget
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is they're doing on screen, be it a
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  Speaker 2: job or activity, isn't real. And Davine Joy Randolph was
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  Speaker 2: so amazing as a cafeterier manager in The Holdovers. It
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  Speaker 2: earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. But
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  Speaker 2: it turns out one of the reasons she was so
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  Speaker 2: convincing is because Davine was actually cooking all that food
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  Speaker 2: on set. She tells Variety, I need stuff to do.
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  Speaker 2: I need to be working with my hands. It bothers
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  Speaker 2: me that actors, sometimes from their shoulders down, are dead.
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  Speaker 2: So I made the food. We came up with the menu.
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  Speaker 2: The prop team worked on the Julia Child series. They're
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  Speaker 2: amazing chefs, and I love to cook, so we geeked out,
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  Speaker 2: and of course the entire movie. I made oatmeal, a soup,
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  Speaker 2: I prep I made a roasted chicken, Divine Joy Randolph,
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  Speaker 2: who adds that the day she made the chicken, the
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  Speaker 2: actors skipped their off camera meal and actually ate her
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  Speaker 2: dinner on screen, and she means it was tasty.
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  Speaker 1: The Holdovers is on Peacock Yes Direct from Hollywood,