

“It was a great time to be in Nashville,” he said. He remembers the night when he was a host at the Opry and Loretta Lynn held the hand of film star Sissy Spacek on stage. “All I ever wanted to do was work for WSM,” he said.

Later, White had his first taste of show biz in Nashville as a ride operator at the Opryland theme park and as a tour guide for the Grand Ole Opry. The family would fry the fish in copper washtubs and serve it to hundreds. Even before age 10, White shook fish with breading in paper sacks. White learned to cook at the fish fries held from the back of a truck belonging to his father, a man who owned a bait shop selling minnows, worms and crickets. Jack White’s stories might sound so Hollywood, but he’s Tennessean through and through. over the ugliest omelet he could bring himself to make. And White horsed around on the set of Iron Man 2 with Robert Downey Jr. He washed dishes and prepped plates with famed chef Thomas Keller, a consultant on the set of Spanglish. He refilled Chinese takeout for the likes of Brad Pitt and Matt Damon during a scene in Ocean’s Thirteen. White - a star of a different sort than Nashville rocker Jack White - has styled food for more than 75 films.
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In fact, every morsel of food in the movie - and there’s a lot of it, from fancy flying fish to loaves of bread - was prepared by food stylist and Tennessee native Jack White. In a dramatic scene from The Hunger Games, the star pulls back the string of her bow, points her arrow toward a suckling pig perched on a dining table and shoots the apple right out of its mouth.īut the story you might not know about that pig is it was cooked in Big Bertha, a smoker that made the trek from Pulaski, Tenn., to North Carolina, where the wildly popular film about a post-apocalyptic world was filmed.
