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<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="12360875" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="waitress" source="Orion">Waitress</keyword>" premiered in theaters 15 years ago in May. </li><li>Its writer, director, and star <keyword id="12735705" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="adrienne-shelly" source="Orion">Adrienne Shelly</keyword> was murdered months before its release. </li></ul>"When the film started, you could hear a pin drop because you saw Adrienne's face on the screen. And it was like a gut punch," "Waitress" star <keyword id="13855154" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cheryl-hines" source="Orion">Cheryl Hines</keyword> said during a recent interview with Insider, reflecting on the film's bittersweet Sundance Film Festival premiere 15 years ago."Waitress" was a standout title at <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2007/01/sundance_report_waitress_has_s_1.html">Sundance when it screened there in January 2007</a>, months after its writer, director, and star Adrienne Shelly, then 40, was killed in November 2006 by Diego Pillco in the New York City apartment she used as an office. (Pillco later <a href="https://abc7ny.com/archive/5957609/">pled guilty</a> to entering the apartment with the intention to rob it and strangling Shelly when she threatened to call the police. He received a 25-year sentence.)The film follows Jenna Hunterson (<keyword id="14081726" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="keri-russell" source="Orion">Keri Russell</keyword>), a waitress at a small-town diner with an almost magical ability to bake pies inspired by her mood. An unintentional pregnancy puts a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in the way of Hunterson, who was planning to leave her abusive marriage.While she escapes the harsh reality of her life through an affair with her OB-GYN, Dr. Jim Pomatter (Nathan Fillion), it's friends like Becky (Hines), Dawn (Shelly), and Old Joe (Andy Griffith) who force her to build a new life full of joy.While the film flew relatively under the radar at the time of release, it remains beloved by fans and is still undoubtedly influential, having inspired a hit Broadway musical with original songs by Sara Bareilles.Insider spoke to Hines and Shelly's husband, <keyword id="12735706" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="andy-ostroy" source="Orion">Andy Ostroy</keyword>, about Shelly's legacy and "Waitress" 15 years after it captured our hearts and taunted our sweet tooths.<div type="image" title="Sophie Ostroy and Adrienne Shelly." height="960" width="1280" msid="91926884" hostid="261"></div><h2>Shelly was 'a ball of focused energy' and shot one of the biggest scenes in 'Waitress' while she had the flu</h2>Hines — who met Shelly when she signed on to play Becky, Jenna's straight-forward coworker and friend — described the late filmmaker as "a ball of focused energy" on set"Adrienne set the bar for everybody because she was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/i-was-waitress-22-retired-28-and-millionaire-by-30-2019-7">working harder than anybody there</a>," the actor said back in April. "So nobody could complain about their position because she was doing everything, and doing it really well."One of Hines' most vivid memories on set was watching Shelly in the scene where Dawn, Jenna's quirky and idealistic coworker and friend, gets married. She remembered watching Shelly acting in character in front of the camera and then running behind it to get the next shot she needed.Ostroy, who described himself as an on-set "nanny" to his daughter with Shelly, was similarly impressed by his late wife's composure on a rather difficult day."There's the scene where she's yelling at Keri Russell and Cheryl that she has a boyfriend now, and she doesn't care what anybody else thinks," he recalled to Insider in a separate interview back in April."She's red in the face because she had a fever. She was sick," Ostroy said. "I often think of those moments where, for a day in particular, not only was she acting, not only was she directing, but she was doing it <a href="https://www.insider.com/flu-symptoms">with the flu.</a>"<div type="image" title="Adrienne Shelly in &quot;Waitress.&quot;" height="1621" width="2162" msid="91926886" hostid="261"></div>Ostroy, who previously told Insider that he directed the <a href="https://www.insider.com/documentary-waitress-adrienne-shelly-legacy-andy-ostroy-interview-2021-12">2021 documentary film "Adrienne"</a> in order to bring his late wife "back to life," is very clear that he didn't have anything to do with creating "Waitress."Still, while he was on set to support his family, he'd later make cameos in the film as a man at the tag sale, helping carry the crib that Jenna and her husband Earl (Jeremy Sisto) have bought. He's also a man putting a cake in a display case in Lulu's Diner, which Jenna owned at the end of the film with Becky and Dawn working with her.Recalling how his cameos in the film came about, Ostroy explained that as "a struggling filmmaker," Shelly was "one of those people that would make gifts, or give you things that didn't cost much, but that meant a lot." So she gave Ostroy bit parts in "Waitress" as a Father's Day gift. <div type="image" title="Andy Ostroy and Adrienne Shelly." height="1275" width="1700" msid="91926888" hostid="261"></div>Since "Waitress" was shot quickly and on a tight budget, of <a href="https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0473308/?ref_=recent_view_1">just $1.5 million, </a>Shelly made other casting decisions that were "cost-effective," according to Ostroy. One example was giving their then-young daughter, Sophie, the role of Jenna's daughter, Lulu, in the final scenes of the film set in the future."She didn't have to hire anybody. So it made perfect sense," Ostroy added.Since Shelly's death, Sophie's appearance in the film has a deeper meaning for Ostroy, he said. He's now most impacted by the scene in which Jenna (Russell) is leaving the diner at the end while holding Lulu."And Adrienne's waving goodbye. It was like art imitating life," Ostroy told Insider.<h2>'Waitress' has a 'fantasy-like' tone that still captures the raw emotions of life</h2><div type="image" title="Shelly, Russell, and Hines." height="1621" width="2162" msid="91926890" hostid="261"></div>"Waitress" is a <a href="https://www.insider.com/pies-around-world-2018-10">layered story about pies</a> and lust and abuse and love. But in 2007, it was rare to see a film that was so honest about the more difficult aspects of pregnancy.While Jenna used baking and her affair to escape the reality of her abusive relationship, her pregnancy didn't come with the usual glow that's often shown onscreen. Instead, Jenna portrays a woman grappling with her pregnancy, finding it hard to connect with her baby until she was born. The love she had for her daughter eventually gave her the strength to start a new life. "I did not like being pregnant. It wasn't sweet. It wasn't fun. There was really not much about it that I liked," said Hines, who was a new mother along with Shelly while they were making "Waitress.""It's scary. It might seem like it's going to be the worst thing that's ever happened to you. And it's OK to have those feelings because that's normal," she continued. "But usually, <a href="https://www.insider.com/surprising-facts-about-pregnancy-2018-9">people don't talk about those feelings.</a> They talk about how great it is to be pregnant and to be glowing."Hines loved Jenna's onscreen journey for that reason."And yet, when she had the baby, her life changed and she had clarity about everything," the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star said. "And I understand that because I felt like that. I felt like the day my daughter was born, everything made sense to me."<div type="image" title="Cheryl Hines in &quot;Waitress.&quot;" height="1621" width="2162" msid="91926893" hostid="261"></div>Ostroy said that <a href="https://www.insider.com/documentary-waitress-adrienne-shelly-legacy-andy-ostroy-interview-2021-12">"Waitress" proves Shelly</a> was "ahead of her time with the message of female empowerment," but that she didn't have a grand plan to change the world — or Hollywood — while making the film.Instead, Ostroy said his late wife just had "some things to say" and she "put that to voice in fictional characters.""The irony is when she sat down to write this little movie called 'Waitress,' it ended up being this huge commercial hit that not only would be a successful movie but would later become so commercial <a href="https://www.insider.com/take-me-out-review-jesse-williams-broadway-jesse-tyler-ferguson-2022-4">on Broadway,</a>" Ostroy continued, noting that Shelly wrote, "a story that resonated so well with so many people."Ostroy pointed out that though the tone of "Waitress" is "fantasy-like," it still captures reality."The message was so real and so honest," he said, adding that the tone was "very happy, sad, cry one minute, laugh the next. That's most people's lives."Hines echoed his sentiment: "'Waitress' captures the heartbreak of living and also the simple joys."

15 years later, 'Waitress' star Cheryl Hines reflects on how the groundbreaking film 'captures the heartbreak of living'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12735705" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="adrienne-shelly" source="Orion">Adrienne Shelly</keyword>, who wrote, directed, and starred in "<keyword id="12360875" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="waitress" source="Orion">Waitress</keyword>," was killed in 2006 at age 40.</li><li>The filmmaker wasn't alive to see her movie's success and subsequent musical adaptation.</li></ul><keyword id="12735706" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="andy-ostroy" source="Orion">Andy Ostroy</keyword> remembers the exact moment he decided to make a <keyword id="11982316" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="documentary" source="Orion">documentary</keyword> about his wife, the filmmaker <keyword id="12735707" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="adrienne" source="Orion">Adrienne</keyword> Shelly, who was killed on November 1, 2006. He was sitting in the audience of <a href="https://www.insider.com/sara-bareilles-waitress-revival-has-nod-to-nick-cordero-2021-9">"Waitress" at the Brooks Atkinson Theater</a> on Broadway listening to his mother-in-law explain to two strangers, using vague terms, that her daughter had something to do with the show."Oh, that's great. Is she here tonight?" one of them asked.It made Ostroy wonder how many of the 1,000-plus people who were about to watch the hit musical based on his wife's movie actually knew Shelly's story. At that moment, he decided to pause the book he was writing about their life together and make a film instead, so people could really see her.Shelly was best known for writing, directing, and starring in the 2007 film "Waitress," which began filming in December 2005. She submitted the film to the Sundance Film Festival the following year, but she was not alive to see it get accepted.The filmmaker was <a href="https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0473308/details">killed on November 1, 2006.</a> In February 2008, Diego Pillco <a href="https://abc7ny.com/archive/5957609/">pled guilty</a> to entering the Greenwich Village apartment Shelly used as an office to rob her, strangling Shelly when she threatened to call the police, and then staging her death as a suicide. Pillco is currently serving 25 years in prison after being sentenced in 2008. <div type="image" title="Andy Ostroy" height="1080" width="1440" msid="88278917" hostid="261"></div>Released 15 years after Shelly's death, <a href="https://www.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GYY54mwKzHzytoQEAAAAC?utm_id=sa%7c71700000089318080%7c58700007552655387%7cp68023211596&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiA-9uNBhBTEiwAN3IlNB9o7Ejpt41d_x-XqpgxWBRdc7VlN0z_8wPbEP00GKwhe2HOxC-hSBoCFDQQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds">Ostroy's new HBO documentary, called "Adrienne,"</a> sets out to tell Shelly's story so that fans of "Waitress" remember more than just her name.Insider spoke to Ostroy about the inspiration behind "Adrienne," the film's powerful portrayal of their daughter's grief, and why it's so important for him to help people understand the legacy Shelly left behind and what she stood for. <h2>Shelly was married to Ostroy for over three years before her death </h2>As much as "Adrienne" is a movie about Shelly, it's also a movie about Shelly and Ostroy's life together before it was cut short. The documentary covers their whirlwind romance — how the two met on Match.com in late 2001, got engaged in Paris the following summer, and married in December 2002.She was an actor and filmmaker who had success in independent films like Hal Hartley's "The Unbelievable Truth" and "Trust." She <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791248/">wrote, directed, and starred in</a> films like "Sudden Manhattan," about a woman who witnesses two murders on the same street on two different days, and "I'll Take You There," which chronicles what happens when a woman tries to force a man to move on after his marriage fails. As Shelly herself recounts in footage featured in "Adrienne," the idea for her most commercially and critically successful film, "Waitress," came to her while she was eight months pregnant with her daughter, Sophie, and "terrified" that becoming a mother would transform her into someone she didn't recognize.<div type="image" title="Adrienne Shelly with her daughter Sophie at the beach" height="1440" width="1920" msid="88278918" hostid="261"></div>"The actual fear of how your life is going to change, it's not spoken about," Shelly says in the clip. "So, I wanted to write a movie about those fears and give those fears a voice."The movie "Waitress" follows Jenna Hunterson (Keri Russell), a small-town waitress at a diner with an almost-magical ability to make pies that help her express her emotions. She's also pregnant with a child by her abusive husband, Earl (Jeremy Sisto), and dreams of saving up enough money to leave him and start a new life. Throughout her pregnancy, she struggles to love her baby while also starting up an affair with her doctor, Jim Pomatter (Nathan Fillion).Shelly stars in the film as Dawn, Jenna's quirky co-worker who supports her along with their friend and fellow waitress, Becky (Cheryl Hines). "Waitress" was a hit from the time it premiered at Sundance and was well-received by critics and audiences in its wider theatrical release. But it is the musical adaptation that debuted on Broadway in 2016, with <a href="https://waitressthemusical.com/cast-creative/">a book by Jessie Nelson</a> and music and lyrics by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, that introduced the story to a whole new audience and gave it a life of its own. <h2>Ostroy designed his documentary to 'bring Adrienne back to life' </h2>Ostroy said that he made "Adrienne" to keep his late wife's spirit alive. "The film was always designed to bring Adrienne back to life," he told Insider, aware that some viewers are just being introduced to her but hoping they take away from it an understanding of how special she was. "Perhaps they can grieve her absence in some way the way we do." Ostroy structured the film to have three interwoven stories, called "life," "death," and "aftermath." To help him build a more complete picture of the filmmaker's entire life and career — they'd only been together for five years before she was murdered — he recruited Shelly's other family members and friends to help "fill in the blanks" about his wife's life. "Her formative years both as a person and as an artist were unknown to me," Ostroy said.<div type="image" title="Adrienne Shelly and Andy Ostroy." height="1280" width="1228" msid="88278921" hostid="261"></div>In conversations with Ostroy, Shelly's loved ones explained the milestones in her life that impacted her the most, like the death of her father, Sheldon "Shelly" Levine, when she was young, her decision to drop out of school to move to New York and become an actor, and the fears she would express to them about being alone forever before she met Ostroy.Another important point of the film was for Ostroy to demonstrate the impact Shelly's films would have on the world. "She literally was #MeToo in many ways before #MeToo existed," he told Insider, pointing to the "very strong feminist voice" in all her films."Almost in a very pioneering way," he added.One moment in "Adrienne" demonstrates this aspect of Shelly's legacy in a darkly humorous way. Ostroy tells a story in the film about bringing Shelly's ashes to the theater where "Waitress" was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-reportedly-pays-a-record-25-million-for-sundance-hit-2021-1">playing at Sundance</a> so she could have "her moment" at the premiere."I remember throwing ashes in the air and Harvey Weinstein walked right by and they landed on his shoulders," Ostroy says in the documentary. "And I just started laughing on the inside because literally, it was as if Adrienne was right next to me laughing and thinking that was the funniest thing ever." <h2>In addition to shedding light on an underappreciated filmmaker, 'Adrienne' is a stunning portrait of grief</h2>Shelly and Ostroy's daughter, Sophie, was only two years old when her mother was killed the day after Halloween in 2006. She's a teenager in "Adrienne," and Ostroy enlisted Sophie to narrate her mother's life by reading journals found at Shelly's childhood home. She also voices her younger self in animated drawings featured in the documentary, which Ostroy used to depict his daughter's journey with grief throughout her childhood. The voiceovers are based on real conversations about their grief the two had been privately having for years, all throughout Sophie's life."Ever since Adrienne died, I would sit with Sophie, especially in the earlier years like at bedtime, and we would talk," Ostroy told Insider, calling the conversations "fascinating.""I had a small Blackberry, and I just started typing verbatim these conversations because something told me that someday there will be a very meaningful point to having these, even if it was just nothing more than Sophie being able to look at a catalog of conversations and see her own development emotionally as she matured throughout this process," he said. In one particularly moving and raw moment in the film, Sophie sits down before bed one night to speak with Ostroy about <a href="https://www.insider.com/stages-of-grief">grieving her mother</a>, talking about how Halloween and Mother's Day are her hardest days.<div type="image" title="Andy Ostroy and Adrienne Shelly." height="1275" width="1700" msid="88278923" hostid="261"></div>"I'm just jealous all day," Sophie says about Mother's Day, explaining that it's because she realizes she's "never" going to have the relationship with her mother that other daughters get to have with theirs. She admits that the "permanency" of that fact gets harder as she gets older. But Shelly, Ostroy says, has left behind a bit of a roadmap for her daughter and her husband based on how she lived her life."I used to say that Adrienne was 5'1", but she was a giant in her industry, and she stood tall when it came to fighting for what she believed in, to executing on her vision, and making sure that her very strong very unique voice is what ended up on screen," said Ostroy, reflecting on her legacy. He said in "Adrienne" that while he's had moments of sitting on the floor crying and smelling her clothes, he was also quick to understand that he had a purpose — to make sure his daughter was okay and to learn the truth about the day of her murder. He bravely shared the latter journey on film. Ostroy, who is not a filmmaker by trade, told Insider that he would invoke his wife whenever he hit a roadblock in making the documentary: "What would Adrienne do in this particular spot?"<a href="https://www.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GYY54mwKzHzytoQEAAAAC?utm_id=sa%7c71700000089318080%7c58700007552655387%7cp68023211596&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiA-9uNBhBTEiwAN3IlNB9o7Ejpt41d_x-XqpgxWBRdc7VlN0z_8wPbEP00GKwhe2HOxC-hSBoCFDQQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds">"Adrienne" is available to stream now on HBO Max.</a>

'The film was always designed to bring Adrienne back to life': 15 years after her murder, Adrienne Shelly's husband reintroduces the 'Waitress' filmmaker to the world with his new documentary

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Sara Bareilles and Joe Tippett are engaged after more than five years together.</li><li>The singer and actor while performing together in the musical adaptation of "Waitress."</li></ul>Sara Bareilles is engaged to her longtime partner, Joe Tippett.The "<a href="https://www.insider.com/sara-bareilles-says-dream-that-brave-became-pride-anthem-2022-6">Brave</a>" singer, 43, shared the news on Instagram Sunday. In the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm3HCk-Ng7-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, she and Tippett, 40, gaze into each other's eyes.Bareilles rests her hand on her face in the shot, showing off a delicate gold ring that has no stone."Yes to marrying this man," Bareilles captioned the post. "It's an easy, earned, relaxed YES.""@joetipps you are exactly who I want," she went on in the caption. "The more I know you the more I know I love you…and you have introduced me to parts of myself I was afraid to love.""And now I love ME more because of you. So really this is all about me," she joked. "Just kidding. What a gift you are. Let the games begin. Onward into absolutely everything with you."Bareilles also posted the same photo on her Instagram story, writing, "New Year's resolution: marry this man."The musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly's "<a href="https://www.insider.com/waitress-retrospective-adrienne-shelly-cheryl-hines-andy-ostroy-2022-5">Waitress</a>" brought Tippett and Bareilles together in 2015, as <a href="https://people.com/music/sara-bareilles-engaged-to-joe-tippett/">People</a> reported. Bareilles starred in the show as Jenna Hunterson and wrote the score for the musical, which snagged her a Tony nomination in 2016.Tippett played Earl, Jenna's abusive husband, when the show was in previews at Cambridge, Massachusetts' American Repertory Theater. He reprised the role in the Broadway production of "<a href="https://www.insider.com/sara-bareilles-waitress-revival-has-nod-to-nick-cordero-2021-9">Waitress</a>" in 2017, though not at the same time Bareilles played Jenna, according to <a href="https://playbill.com/article/joe-tippett-will-step-into-broadways-waitress">Playbill</a>.Bareilles and Tippett began appearing at events together in 2017, and she celebrated their third anniversary with an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B2smMihgibu/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=1b201365-ac62-405f-9a55-41f0cac51e9f">Instagram</a> post in September 2019, captioning a selfie, "3 years. Feels like 3 hundred. Can't wait for it to be forever."Bareilles also told <a href="https://people.com/music/sara-bareilles-boyfriend-joe-tippett-cared-for-her-covid-19/">People</a> in July 2020 that her relationship with Tippett assuaged her fears that a partner would impede her songwriting abilities."I had a fear that if I was happy and content in a relationship that I would stop writing music," she told the outlet. "But now I am seeking and wandering in partnership."

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