Ireland’s Maria Doyle Kennedy goes mainstream as a ‘Murder She Wrote’-style leading lady with AcornTV’s now streaming series ‘Recipes for Love and Murder.’ As advice columnist and creative cook Tannie Maria Purvis in Karoo, South Africa, Kennedy dispenses recipes to her readers while simultaneously solving homicides. Kennedy was interviewed for The Boston Herald; this is an edited, condensed version.
Q: I wonder if people ever call you MDK?
MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY: They do. Lots and lots of people call me MDK.
Q: You are close with a pet chicken at your remote home in the series, the way most people would bond with a dog. But there were other animals as well.
MDK: The Hadedas hated me — and I hated them. So that was okay. It was mutual.
Q: Those are the three birds that travel in a pack and look kind of threatening?
MDK: Yeah. They try to attack my shoe in one episode — and they actually tried to attack me and eat my shin at one point.
Q: You campaigned for this role. Why were you so certain Maria was meant for you?
MDK: This was so clever. It was so smart, with all these really well-placed clues along the way. It just reminded me of when I first read Agatha Christie books or something in my teens. I would read them so fast because I kept wanting to find the clues and figure out who the killer was and what their relationship was with that person. ‘Recipes’ is like that, it has all these smaller stories, a little mystery in each episode with some humor to it that you have to solve. But then this one large, compelling mystery that arcs over the whole season and brings it through so that you want to, hopefully, watch more. I just loved her. I did see her in front of me and I wanted to try and convey her! She is quite different than me. She just has all this light and humor and warmth and of course, this amazing food everywhere. But then also she has this darkness of tragedy and kind of repressed emotion from all the things that she’s come through before. I just really wanted to find her and pretend to be her.
Q: I read that you consider yourself a singer first and foremost and it’s most like natural thing that you do, rather than act. I wonder if you suggested, ‘She’s here in the kitchen with her chicken. What about if she just breaks into song?’
MDK: I didn’t suggest that. But what did happen is that the director Christiaan Olwagen had done some research on me before we met. (We have never worked together before – I’d never been in South Africa before.) So he discovered that I run a record label and that I do sing. We had been hoping to perform while we were in South Africa. That’s usually what we do when we go away to work. My husband [Kieran Kennedy] is a musician and we always travel as a family. So when one of us is working, the other goes there and the children come and normally we do concerts as well. But we couldn’t in South Africa because the COVID was still very much a worry and there were restrictions on how people gather and how many people could be there and what was open and closed and all of those things. But Christiaan researched and discovered my music. And he was amazing. He really listened to a lot of it. And he asked me if he could use 2 of our songs in the show. So there are two songs of ours in ‘Recipes for Love and Murder.’ One of them ‘Sing’ is in the final episode. So that was really nice and an interesting way to have both things together.
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COMING AT YA! Hollywood’s 3-D craze lasted but a brief year but the fascination lingers. ‘The House of Wax,’ a first-rate Technicolor horror movie via Warner Bros. in 1953, which made Vincent Price a horror icon for the ages and remains that era’s defining 3-D hit. Now a 3-film set, ‘Paravision Dreams: The Golden Age of 3-D Films of Pine and Thomas’ (Blu-ray, KL Studio Classics, Not Rated), offers colorful melodramas with marquee names from that eye-popping time that’s mostly a film history footnote today. The 1953 ‘Sangaree’ is set in Savannah, GA, right after the Revolutionary War and stars Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl. Also from ’53 is the musical ‘Those Redheads from Seattle’ which finds Rhonda Fleming (‘Gunfight at the OK Corral’), ‘Citizen Kane’ vet Agnes Moorhead and pop singer Theresa Brewer in Gold Rush Alaska to find out who killed their dad. Murder and music and 3-D! The 3rd film, ‘Jivaro’ in ’54, has Lamas, Fleming and Brian Keith and is also known as ‘Lost Treasure of the Amazon.’ Bonus: Rhonda Fleming interview from 2006 (she was 97 when she died in 2020), 2 audio commentaries and Arlene Dahl and Cesar Romero in the ‘Sangaree’ Lux Radio Theatre edition. Also a Before/After comparison on the restoration.
MEMORABLY, VIOLENTLY FRENCH Intentionally disturbing in its seamy look at French police corruption, the 1970 ‘The Cop’ (Blu-ray, KL Studio Classics, R) (French title ‘Un Conde’) begins with a man getting a disturbing, all-too-realistic beating by 3 thugs. Intentionally sickening in this emphatic, no-nonsense violence, ‘Cop’ makes ‘70s Clint Eastwood classics like ‘Dirty Harry’ seem almost like sweet fantasies. The violence – and filmmaker Yves Boisset’s rage at injustice – continues to the very last shot as a squad of cops exterminate a criminal holding a gun. Unknown in this country, ‘Cop’ was actually censored by the government who demanded cuts in its baleful portrait of drug and crime czars being protected by Paris’ high-ranking police commissioners. It’s this situation when his partner is killed that drives good cop Favenin (Michel Bouquet) to go rogue and begin executing those responsible. Co-starring Francois Fabian (Maud in Rohmer’s ‘My Night at Maud’s,’ ‘Call My Agent!’). Bonus: An audio commentary.
THEY’RE BACK! As the concluding chapter in the trilogy that rebooted the ‘90s originals, ‘Jurassic World Dominion: Extended Edition’ (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code, Universal, PG-13) found intense controversy online with some fans calling this the worst of the entire series. What’s apparent is that the reptiles remain the true stars even with the nostalgia-driven return of veterans Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern. It’s unfortunate that Chris Pratt is left with little to do except extend his hand to tame the dinosaurs, that Bryce Dallas Howard doesn’t have more to do and that goes for BD Wong (of the original) and France’s Omar Sy. Extended Edition shows both the release version and a never-before-seen Extended Version, including a restored prologue. Bonus: A Jurassic short film ‘Battle at Big Rock,’ the featurette ‘A New Breed of VFX’ and an in-depth 45-minutes look at making the film.
A TAYLOR SHERIDAN PREQUEL Taylor Sheridan has created an empire, rooted in the 19th century American expansion that saw white men creating a new country at the expense of anyone who got in their way. That saga continues with the cable ratings giant ‘Yellowstone’ starring Kevin Costner as contemporary rancher John Dutton whose holdings make his the country’s largest ranch. A prequel set nearly 130 years ago, ‘1883: A Yellowstone Origin Story’ (Blu-ray, 10 episodes, 3 discs, Paramount, Not Rated) presents the life or death wagon train struggle of Dutton’s ancestors to go West and settle in what will become the state of Montana. Sam Elliott is a stand-out as their guide. Real-life married country singing duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are the focus here, parents of a youngster who will be John Dutton’s great grandfather. Two hours’ plus Bonus: ‘Behind the Story’ for each episode, ‘Creating the Pioneer Spirit,’ ‘Inside 1883’ and more.
MUSIC, LYRICS, VOICE BY MIRANDA Lin-Manuel Miranda is the heavyweight behind the animated musical ‘Vivo’ (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code, Sony, PG). Miranda wrote the songs, voices the title character and served as an executive producer. This is the Sing-Along edition. Bonus: Remix of the lyric video ‘My Own Drum’ and the featurette, ‘Behind the Animation.’
HAWKE GOES BAD A superior horror entry ‘Black Phone’ (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code, Universal, R) has a Stephen King-style kink. Finney Shaw (a terrific Mason Thames) is kidnapped by Hawke’s serial killer, known as The Grabber, and stored in a soundproof basement until his day to die arrives. But miraculously the disconnected phone in this makeshift prison rings – and Finney finds he can converse with previous teenage boy victims who are calling from who knows where. Hawke is malevolence personified. Just sitting in his kitchen, masked and bare-chested, he’s one scary, deranged dude. Bonus: Deleted scenes, Behind the Scenes, feature commentary by director Scott Derrickson (‘Doctor Strange’) and Derrickson’s short film, ‘Shadowprowler.’
SHOOT TO KILL This latest installment, the 6th, in the ‘Sniper’ franchise’ is, as the title declares, a case of ‘Sniper Rogue Mission’ (Blu-ray + Digital, Sony, R). Our Sniper (and CIA rookie) Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins, best known as Alex in the ‘Call of Duty’ videogame) seeks the identity of a corrupt Federal agent who is part of a sex trafficking ring. Beckett forms a team and recruits former allies Zero, a Homeland Security agent, and Lady Death, an assassin. As the Blu-ray notes: ‘Honor Over Orders.’
WILDLY POPULAR WWII PROPAGANDA During WWII Hollywood completely reversed the pre-war restrictions on any movie attacking another country to make a series of popular war-themed hits that today we see as overt, flag-waving propaganda. ‘So Proudly We Hail’ (Blu-ray, KL Studio Classics, Not Rated) was released in 1943 when the war against Hitler finally turned a corner and began to be won). The focus was ‘Our Girls on the Fighting Front’ and starred a trio of actresses at the peak of their popularity (and, so says the rumor mill, couldn’t stand one another). Claudette Colbert (Best Actress Oscar, ‘It Happened One Night’), Paulette Goddard (‘Reap the Wild Wind’) and Veronica Lake (‘This Gun for Hire,’ ‘Sullivan’s Travels’) are American Army nurses stationed in the Pacific for the war’s entirety – a real story – in a film that was made with the cooperation of the American Red Cross, the War Department and the Army Nurses Corps. Goddard was Oscar-nominated as Best Supporting Actress as were the visual effects and cinematography. In this brand new 2K master, the men shine as well, led by future Superman George Reeves and Sonny Tufts. Bonus: Film historian Julie Kirgo’s audio commentary.
HEAVEN HELP THEM A Greek village after WWI revives its tradition of re-enacting the Passion Play, dramatizing the trial and death of Jesus Christ in Jules Dassin’s 1958 black-and-white art film, ‘He Who Must Die’ (Blu-ray, KL Studio Classics, Not Rated). A Hollywood exile due to the Blacklist, Dassin had an enviable career overseas, first with the now-classic 1955 heist film ‘Rififi’ and in 1960 with the worldwide sleeper hit ‘Never on Sunday’ which was Oscar nominated for Best Actress Melina Mercouri, Dassin as Director and for his Original Screenplay as well as for its Black-and-white Costumes. ‘Never On Sunday’ won the Oscar for Best Song). ‘He Who Must Die’ is based on the Nikos Kazantzakis novel (his ‘Last Temptation of Christ’ was directed by Martin Scorsese) and sees how the pageant ceases to be make-believe and become disturbingly real. Audio commentary by film historian Daniel Kremer.
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