![]() ![]() And he asked me if he could use 2 of our songs in the show. But Christiaan researched and discovered my music. 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. So when one of us is working, the other goes there and the children come and normally we do concerts as well. My husband is a musician and we always travel as a family. That’s usually what we do when we go away to work. We had been hoping to perform while we were in South Africa. (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. But what did happen is that the director Christiaan Olwagen had done some research on me before we met. What about if she just breaks into song?’ I wonder if you suggested, ‘She’s here in the kitchen with her chicken. 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 just really wanted to find her and pretend to be her. But then also she has this darkness of tragedy and kind of repressed emotion from all the things that she’s come through before. She just has all this light and humor and warmth and of course, this amazing food everywhere. I did see her in front of me and I wanted to try and convey her! She is quite different than me. 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. ‘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. 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. It just reminded me of when I first read Agatha Christie books or something in my teens. It was so smart, with all these really well-placed clues along the way. Why were you so certain Maria was meant for you? Maria Doyle Kennedy stars as Tannie Maria with Kylie Fisher as Jessie September in “Recipes for Love and Murder.” (Photo Patrick Toselli/AcornTV) They try to attack my shoe in one episode - and they actually tried to attack me and eat my shin at one point. Q: Those are the three birds that travel in a pack and look kind of threatening? MDK: The Hadedas hated me - and I hated them. Q: You are close with a pet chicken at your remote home in the series, the way most people would bond with a dog. Kennedy was interviewed for The Boston Herald this is an edited, condensed version. THE WILD CHICKEN LITTLE DISC SERIESIreland’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. ![]()
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