.
- So I wanted to remind everybody
that there's going to be some filming happening
in the tavern over the next day or two.
- [gasps] Is it a true-crime show?
- I'm talking about our new social-media campaign.
[imitates trumpet fanfare]
I'm not good at trumpet sounds.
- We already have customers.
Why do we need a social-media campaign?
- To expand our customer base,
which will lend itself to cross-promotion
for when we eventually open the speakeasy.
- What?
- All right, what are we looking for--
day-in-the-life content, getting-ready-with-me content,
or just feet stuff?
- I'm out.
- OK, I know you don't like this,
but we need everybody involved.
- Sorry, I'm a little late, Isabella,
but I am camera-ready. [chuckles]
- Hold on. Isn't that my bandanna?
- Tennessee is a finders-keepers state.
- Yeah. [chuckles]
All right, who's ready to make some content?
- Oh, me.
I want to become an influencer and prove my mom wrong.
Strangers do like me.
- My wife says I have a really great voiceover voice.
- Oh, really? Do it.
- I am.
- OK.
We really want to capture the unique magic
of Happy's Place.
- Wait, wait, wait, who's this "we"?
- Oh. [chuckles]
What a bad producer I am.
I forgot to introduce our director.
- I will be attempting to unlock the truth
in each and every one of you.
- I'm out.
- ♪ Sometimes it feels like a big ol' fight ♪
♪ To get through the day ♪
♪ And sleep on through the night ♪
♪ But here you'll find a place ♪
♪ That'll surely lift your spirits ♪
♪ You belong at Happy's Place ♪
- OK, we're going to start
with you welcoming everyone to the tavern.
- OK, great, great.
Listen, um...
shoot me only from the left or above, OK?
- I think he meant me.
- Oh, sure.
Um, all right, then.
Uh, if you need me, I will be in my trailer.
- Mm-hmm.
And by trailer, I mean the ladies' room.
- OK.
- OK, Bobbie, your name is Bobbie.
You're a tavern owner.
You're going to say "Hi, I'm Bobbie.
Welcome to my tavern."
- Ready when you are. - Settle!
And action.
- Hi, I'm Bobbie.
Welcome to Happy's Place.
- Isabella, can I talk to you for a second?
There's something wrong with the camera.
- Of course, yes.
Excuse us. - Oh, sure.
I'll just be over there rehearsing my one line.
[chuckles]
[trilling lips]
- I think I know what's wrong with the camera.
- Yeah, it's what's on the camera.
- [trilling lips]
- Listen, you're the director.
It's your responsibility
to get a decent performance out of her.
- And you're the producer.
Apparently, your only job is to point out problems
that I alone must solve.
Um, Bobbie, can we get another shot of you?
- Oh, of course you can.
Uh, is there anything else you want me to do?
I mean, I can make it happier?
- Wow!
Happier than that?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Maybe just pour a beer.
And, um, don't look at the camera.
Just act natural, like a-- like a--like a human.
- OK.
- And...
action.
- [humming]
- Wow, that was great.
- We need to recast Bobbie.
[upbeat rock music]
Hey, how's it going with Gabby?
Please tell me we're getting some usable stuff.
- Well, I haven't been able to shoot anything yet because...
- OK, I think I found the one.
- Gabby's been trying on hats.
- Only because Steve said "no capes."
- I need my producer to help me,
uh, you know, produce.
- On it.
OK, so, Gabby,
this is just a simple, behind-the-scenes look
at how we make our most signature cocktail.
Any questions? - Yeah.
I hear you're looking to recast Bobbie.
And I just want to tell you that she is my best friend.
And no one can play her like me.
- Let's just see how this drink tutorial goes.
- OK.
But once you see me in action,
there will be no way to deny how magnetic I am.
- OK, play everything right to me.
And action.
- Hi, I'm the bartender here at Happy's.
Come on, watch me make my signature cocktail,
the mojito margar-- - Emmett!
- Come on! - [groans]
- You just ruined our first usable take all day.
- "Usable."
What'd I tell you?
- My mistake for trying to work at work.
- You know what? I'm glad we stopped.
I'm going to try a tracking shot.
- Maybe we keep the shots regular
until we actually get something.
- Alfonso Cuarón didn't become Alfonso Cuarón
by not taking risks.
- No, he did it by going to film school.
- Action!
- Oh, hi, there.
Come on, take a journey with me to my signature cocktail.
Ah. Oh, I hope I can muddle through it.
[laughs] [both groan]
- Emmett! - God, Emmett!
- Come on! - What?
- You're ruining our content.
- Well, I'm making content our customers actually like,
the kind you can eat.
- Does that mean we can finally get a tour of your kitchen?
- You bring that thing into my kitchen,
and my foot will get a tour of your butt.
- Hey, Bobbie, uh, do you have a second
to talk about the social-media campaign?
- Sure I do.
Honey, I am so proud of you for coming up with that idea,
and I'm having a blast being a part of it.
- That's actually what I wanted to talk to you about.
You know when someone who is so, so good
at so many things...
is not so good at one thing?
But that is so OK.
- No clue what you're talking about.
- We had to recast you.
- What?
I was doing so good!
- I'm sorry, it's just
something happens to you when you're on camera.
It's like a person who's never met a person
trying to be a person.
- I don't think that's true at all.
Oh, my gosh.
What am I doing with my teeth?
- I don't know, Bobbie. No one knows.
Look, I'm sorry, but I really need this to work.
- I understand.
And if that's my resting face, when I die, closed casket.
- Yes.
- Bobbie, I heard that they are going to recast you.
And I won't let them unless it's me.
- I would, but you're tall, blonde, and a total diva.
I swear, you are going to love who we found to play you.
Kenzie's a local actress and influencer
who has a huge social-media following.
And she was on an episode of "Law & Order."
- Stop.
- Well, that doesn't mean she can play me.
I mean, I've never been a lawyer or a dead body.
- I'm here for the shoot.
- Whoa.
You could be my daughter.
[upbeat rock music]
.
- OK, I'm confused.
You say you're an actress and an influencer?
So which one is it?
- Well, influencing is my hobby.
Acting is my passion, and my day job is real estate.
- Aren't you a little young to be playing me?
- Not with my range.
On "Law & Order," I played a 50-year-old dead body.
I was 20.
- Wow.
- Bobbie, since the content we're getting
is for social media, it's OK that our new Bobbie is younger
because the online audience is younger.
- Oh, whoa, Kenzie, you have quite a following.
You know, I'm a aspiring influencer myself.
I hit the Gram.
I dance on the Tok.
And once, I even finished the Wordle.
- OK.
Kenzie, uh, we won't need you for very long today.
Just got to grab a few quick videos
of you as Bobbie in action.
- Ah, that's my favorite word, "action."
- [laughs] O-OK, hang on just a second.
If you're going to be playing me,
shouldn't I tell you what I do?
- Oh, no, no, no, no. No, I need to observe you.
It'll be like Julia Roberts shadowing Erin Brockovich...
- Ooh.
- Or Meryl Streep shadowing Margaret Thatcher.
- I like the first one.
- Hey, Kenzie,
OK, while you shadow Bobbie, I will shadow you.
- Why?
- Yeah, why?
- OK, I didn't exactly budget for all this shadow time.
- OK, OK.
I am just going to take Kenzie here for a little rundown.
- [Southern accent] A little rundown.
[normal voice] I'm just getting your inflections.
- [chuckles] Do I really sound like that?
- [Southern accent] Do I really sound like that?
That?
all: [Southern accent] That?
- Do I really sound like that? both: That?
- Good Lord, help me.
- Ay, Dios mío.
♪ ♪
OK, all you need to do
is deliver this order slip to the kitchen.
- And people will watch because it's exciting?
- Eh, social media is tricky.
It's hard to know what's going to pop,
so we're getting as much behind-the-scenes content
as we can.
- Please don't talk to my actors.
Takoda, remember, you're not just dropping off a food order.
You're a lifeline of nourishment
for the hardworking customers
who rely on you.
And--and action.
- In a world where one waiter stands between you and lunch.
- Cut!
- You don't yell "cut." I yell "cut."
Cut!
And, Emmett,
could you please turn down the fan on that stove?
I can barely hear myself think.
- I'm sorry.
Can you hear yourself over this?
Get out of my kitchen!
- Good morning. - Good morning.
- Hi, there. - Hi, there.
Oh.
- Is that my bandanna?
- [normal voice] Oh, yeah, I saw you wearing it earlier.
I put it on because I feel like people's personal items
can soak up some of their essence.
- I do that with my hat work.
- OK, you can steal my accent,
but you can't steal my bandanna.
Give it back.
- Kenzie, how's the character study going?
- Ah. - Are you ready to be Bobbie?
- Oh, I wish. [Bobbie chuckles]
This woman has layers.
- Mm-hmm. - She's like...
- An onion?
- An onion.
Oh, where does it come from?
I just want to be in here with her.
- Not right now, you don't.
- Oh, she's great, isn't she?
#OneOfAKind, #RedThunder.
Um, listen, Kenzie,
how useful are hashtags to new influencers?
- I'm not really wearing my influencer hat right now.
- Ah, damn it. It's the only hat I don't have.
[chuckles] Kenzie, Kenzie...
- Gabby. - Yeah?
- Maybe you could finish your drink tutorial
while Kenzie finishes shadowing Bobbie, yeah?
- Um, no.
I am shadowing Kenzie, OK?
I don't think you know how hard it is to shadow a shadow.
[upbeat rock music]
.
- Emmett, do you mind if we get some food-prep content?
All I need you to do is just...
keep the shutters open.
- Wow, you've officially lost control of this production.
- [scoffs] I've lost control? - Uh-huh.
- You're supposed to be the director.
Steve, all I needed here was some content.
- This is my debut.
It has to be perfect!
- Guys, remember...
when hope was a thin line on the horizon.
both: No.
[upbeat rock music]
- How did you manage to shoot all day
and get no usable footage?
- Hey, I put my heart and soul into this project.
I created a mood board, a playlist for tone.
I even drew little stick figures
to block the actors in flattering light.
- Steve, this is not "Citizen Kane."
- How could it be,
with the cast that you gave me to work with?
- All I needed from you were just a few fun pops
of a typical day at Happy's.
- Unfortunately, a typical day at Happy's
is mostly just Emmett yelling, which is a shame,
because the shots I did manage to get of him are great.
- Get out of my kitchen! [both laughing]
- He's kind of funny when he's angry.
- My foot is gonna get a tour of your butt.
You want to watch me cook a London broil?
- Steve...
I was wrong about your directing.
Maybe this is your "Citizen Kane."
♪ ♪
- Do you seriously think
it's going to help you understand me better
by watching me order bar napkins?
- Absolutely.
Everything is leading me to the real Bobbie.
- [sighs] You know...
I don't want to hurt your feelings,
but, um, I think being an actress is crazy.
- Shakespeare, he once said...
"All the world is a stage."
And then he said a whole bunch of other stuff about that.
- Well, I don't understand what you meant
about "the real Bobbie."
What you see is what you get. - Oh, I thought that at first.
You know, you're fun, you're energetic.
You have that goofy, charming accent.
- [laughs] Oh, honey, this is Tennessee.
You're the one with the accent.
- But then I realized that something's weighing you down.
- Yeah, I think her name is Kenzie.
[chuckles]
- Steve's a friend of mine.
And I support this "director" thing.
But if he comes in my kitchen one more time,
I'm going to take that phone,
and I'm going to throw it in a big hot pot of chili.
- Ah!
Get your mitts off that bandanna.
And no iPhones in the chili,
or we're going to have to raise prices.
- Oh. [chuckles]
- "Oh"?
- You're very protective of that bandanna.
- No, I'm not.
- That isn't just a bandanna, is it?
- You're right.
It's a magic carpet.
And I have to hold on to it so it won't fly away.
- How long were you two together?
- "Together"? What makes you--
Three months.
- And you broke up with him, right?
- Yeah.
- Breakups are hard.
My parents got divorced.
My dad left my mom for his dental hygienist.
- I'm--I'm sorry to hear that.
But to be honest...
It sounds like a richly comedic situation.
- So you're willing to give up the man.
Why aren't you willing to give up the bandanna?
- I guess I'm just used to it.
- The longer you hold on to things,
the heavier they get.
[soft dramatic music]
.
- Premiere time. - [imitates trumpet fanfare]
- No.
Everybody, gather around.
- Oh, I cannot wait to see myself in action.
Which hat did you go with?
- Actually, we went in a different direction.
- Of course you did.
And that direction was the voice.
- OK, let me see what you got.
- Thank you all for going on this journey with us.
At first, we struggled.
- Struggled mightily.
- At one point, we wanted to call it off.
But why? The camera was perfect.
The lighting was right.
So what? What was missing?
- Character.
We needed character.
- Which I gave you.
Um, hats.
- And sometimes you find a character
right under your nose.
- We give you...
both: Grumpy Chef!
- Get out of my kitchen!
You bring that thing in my kitchen,
my foot's gonna get a tour of your butt.
You want to watch me cook a London broil?
Too bad. Get out of my kitchen!
[laughter]
- Oh, he should've wore a hat. [Bobbie laughs]
- Nice work, director.
- I couldn't have done it without my producer.
- Good job.
- Angry Emmett is exactly the kind of character
the Internet loves.
He's blowing up.
- Wow. Would you look at that?
- I hate that I love it so much.
[Bobbie laughs] - Wait, where are you going?
We have a bunch more clips to show you.
- Oh, I'll look at them later.
I'm going to go congratulate Happy's new star.
[knocks on door] Hey, you got a second?
- You bet. What is it?
- Um...
I-I was just wondering if, uh...
can I have your autograph?
- Goodbye, Bobbie.
- Oh, no, your catchphrase is "get out of my kitchen!"
- I don't want to be on social media
or be an influenza or whatever.
- This might make it better.
- Finally.
What made you change your mind?
- Mm, it was heavier than I thought.
Around my neck.
- Thank you.
Welcome home, buddy. - [chuckles]
But, seriously, can I have your autograph?
- Get out of my kitchen!
- [laughs] Attaboy!
[laughs, sighs]
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- So, Emmett, how does it feel to be viral?
- When I was growing up, viral wasn't a good thing.
- You know, I'm OK not being an influencer.
You know, to be honest, the power scares me.
- That's how I feel
about the voice.
- OK, Kenzie says she's just about ready.
[Steve gasps] - Steve, this is so exciting.
We're drowning in content.
- My own cinematic universe.
Oh, Bobbie.
It's your time to shine.
And action.
- [Southern accent] Hi, I'm Bobbie.
And welcome to Happy's Place.
- Oh, good Lord.
She nailed it.
[upbeat rock music]