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Milk & Honeys" is the perfect blend of raw industry insights and unfiltered realness. Like the ingredients that sweeten and smooth out a cup of tea, hosts Kayla Becker (TV host of 10 years) and Vanessa Curry (model and actress of 10 years) bring their own flavors to the conversation— Together, they spill the tea on what it really takes to live and thrive in LA’s entertainment scene.
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Episode 8 feat. Jenna Davis: You Know Her Voice—Now Meet the Girl Behind M3GAN
Multi-talented doesn't begin to describe Jenna Davis. At just 21, she's already conquered Hollywood as the chilling voice behind horror sensation Megan while simultaneously establishing herself as a rising country music star.
Our conversation with Jenna reveals an artist wise beyond her years, having navigated the entertainment industry since childhood with remarkable grace. Starting in community theater productions at age 9 in Minnesota, Jenna recalls how a director first recognized her acting potential during a production of "Annie." With unwavering family support, she made the leap to Los Angeles at 11, balancing homeschooling with professional acting opportunities.
What strikes you immediately about Jenna is her refreshing perspective on rejection. "No's are no's for a reason, and yes's are yeses for a reason," she shares, explaining how maintaining childlike enthusiasm for each opportunity has been key to her success. This wisdom served her well when landing the role of Megan, which she originally thought was for a video game. Without knowing she was auditioning for what would become a blockbuster horror franchise, she created Megan's distinctive voice by infusing the character with sass and personality beyond traditional robot delivery.
The conversation takes fascinating turns when Jenna discusses her upcoming debut album "Where Did That Girl Go?" dropping June 27th – the same day as "Megan 2.0." The album title reflects her current transitional phase, acknowledging her evolution from child performer to adult artist. Growing up on Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton, Jenna's drawn to country music's storytelling tradition while incorporating pop influences from artists like Miley Cyrus.
Whether discussing the unexpected embrace of Megan by the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month or revealing what fans can expect from "Megan 2.0," Jenna demonstrates authentic passion for her craft. Follow @JennaDavis across all platforms and mark your calendar for June 27th when both her debut album and the highly anticipated horror sequel arrive simultaneously.
welcome back everyone to milk and honey is the podcast where we sip, spill and serve up stories behind your favorite stars. I'm your host, kayla becker and I'm vanessa.
Speaker 2:Today we've got a treat for you guys. She's an actress, singer and digital creator who's taken the world by storm. You know her as the voice of the killer robot. That both is terrifying and iconic.
Speaker 1:More iconic. Plus, she's making waves as a rising country star with her debut album when Did that Girl Go? Dropping the same day as Megan 2.0, june 27th. And let's not forget her 2024 EP, psych. That gave us a taste of her signature pop country sound. Please welcome the multi-talented.
Speaker 2:Jenna Davis.
Speaker 1:Yay, hello everyone, thank you so much for joining us. I know you are a busy, busy girl.
Speaker 3:I am just so excited to be here. This is so fun. I feel like the energy you know like when you walk into your room. You feel like the energy you know like when you walk into your room. You feel like the energy is matched. The energy.
Speaker 1:Oh, we're matching energy. We love when people say that we have a lot to dive in, but we want to kind of go all the way back. You started dancing at like what two years old, so basically out of the womb, started acting at five. Can you tell us a little bit about your early beginnings? You know, being raised in Texas, kind of what first drew you to the world of performance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely so. Born in Texas? Yes, I was born in Plano, lived in Frisco and lived there for only about four years. Then my family moved to Minnesota because my dad got a job offer there Well, a job promotion there and so we moved up there and my mom was a voice and piano teacher. So I'd always kind of had music in my life because of that and I always wanted to sing. Whenever she was teaching her students I always wanted to be taught. I would wait by the the doors. We'd have this room in our house in Minnesota. That was her room to teach her students in and I would just wait outside their little glass doors and I would just wait there until she was done for the day.
Speaker 1:It's my turn. Exactly that was it.
Speaker 3:It was my turn and she was also my music teacher a little bit at my Montessori and I always would get so mad when she didn't pick me so it was immediately just something that I was, I guess, attracted to, and I always really loved music since I was young. I was terrible at sports anything in that regard.
Speaker 3:I was awful, so I knew that wasn't for me. And so around five, yeah, my mom started putting me in these musical theater camps and then I started doing my first musical theater productions when I was nine. So I started off then and then pretty much I was doing a production of Annie at my community theater and the director came up to my mom and she said your kid can really act, my mom's like she can.
Speaker 2:Were you, annie.
Speaker 3:No, I played Molly, okay, yes, so it was Molly the little baby orphan. And after that I told my mom I wanted to do professional theater and film. My mom said, okay, well, let's see how we can make that happen.
Speaker 2:We love a supportive parent yes, absolutely yes yes, that makes all the difference in the world it really does.
Speaker 3:I couldn't have done it without my family. I mean, I am an only child, so I think, in that regard, it was easier for them to put a lot of focus on me and what I wanted to do. So I think that would have made made it more difficult if I had a sibling, because you know that's a lot harder. But yeah, we started doing professional theater. I started leaving school early because I got to go do shows and I thought I was the coolest fifth grader in the world.
Speaker 1:Which I'm sure you were.
Speaker 2:I mean, like I was hanging upside down on the monkey bars when I was in fifth grade trying to get attention from you know. Meanwhile she's off to play. I know I mean you've had roles in Raven's Home, chicken Girls and voiced characters in Treehouse, detectives and Vampirina, which you got to play many voices in. How did those early acting experiences shape your performance today?
Speaker 3:You know, I think it's taught me that no's are no's for a reason, and yes or yeses for a reason.
Speaker 3:I think really early on, when I was diving into theater and film, you know you go in and you're just so excited and so enthusiastic and so so fresh and new to the industry that every opportunity is just so exciting. And I think you know, as you get older, the opportunities because rejection is so prevalent. Sometimes you lose the excitement because you're like, okay, here's another one, we're just going to have to go for it. And I think something that I've always taught myself is to never lose that excitement, like that childhood excitement that I felt so early on and because every role that's supposed to happen is going to happen if it's meant for you.
Speaker 1:And there's no sense.
Speaker 3:You know like there's no sense of thinking too much into it. It's really not that deep. Sometimes it can literally just be because the color of your eyes or your height.
Speaker 1:It doesn't have to be that deep. We've talked about that, you know, and it's hard. Even we're a little bit older than you, but like still dealing with the exact same thing and just it's really refreshing that you know someone your age I mean, you've been in the business for a very long time, so but just has that works?
Speaker 3:Well, it doesn't matter how old or young you are, it's just. It comes down to if the opportunity is meant for you Exactly. And that's kind of the mindset that I had to really find early on and just also introduce myself to other things like music, like social media, to feed into the auditions that I was doing, because I wasn't as lucky as others who just come out here and book the first thing that they audition for.
Speaker 3:Sometimes I call those unicorns that happens and I think, oh my goodness, that's amazing. Yes, that was not me. Yes, it took a lot more. It took a lot more of a grind, and that's OK, and I'm very grateful for that grind because I think it's taught me to be appreciative of everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, along the way. Look how well-rounded you are now. Like we'll get to your music in a little bit in addition to everything else you're doing. But I do want to talk about your leap to Los Angeles. You know, from Texas, you said Minnesota, yes To.
Speaker 2:LA.
Speaker 1:Now, that's a big, that's a little bit of a.
Speaker 2:Very impromptu, I'm sure like a huge culture shock.
Speaker 3:What was that like? For you as a young artist you know, I think I was very excited because there's a stigma around la of course, and there's like these expectations when you move here that it's going to be like this. And then you, you move here and it's like, oh, it's a bit different than I thought because it is, in some regard, everybody's's just so busy and moving around so fast, but also it's very lonesome at the same time, right.
Speaker 2:If that makes sense.
Speaker 3:No, it makes total sense, and I think you only have to live here to witness that, because when you come here and visit, it's fun. It's fun, it's exciting, it's this.
Speaker 2:And then when?
Speaker 3:you live here, it's very different Because you're working to survive, run so high, we're all like, yes, we're all running around like craziness. But I think you know, at first, when I was so young I was only 11, so it's different from when I'm an adult now and experiencing it versus when I was younger. I think when I was younger, my parents really tried to guard me in the best way that they could. My parents didn't want me to. They wanted me to pursue the industry, but they didn't want me to ever grow up and feel that I lacked the normal life. That was very important.
Speaker 3:My mom told me that I never want you to say that I prevented you from having a normal life. She's like I never want that to happen, because so many people that start off as a child can kind of go back and say that. And so my parents gave me every opportunity, from going to middle school, to public school, to high school, to whatever I wanted to do, and I always declined. I said, no, this is not what I want. I want to pursue this and I want to do it. And they're like, okay, well, here we go.
Speaker 3:And I think it was at times lonesome in the regard that you know I was homeschooled but I chose that. But I think it prepped me for what I wanted to do, and I think I also saved myself a lot of in-person like scrutiny and bullying because I experienced that online. Yeah, because I put myself out online. At that same time that we started moving here, my mom noticed that social media was starting to become really important, and so she thought well, what's a better way to market you than to put yourself out there as a kid and just be you and have fun? My mom helped me manage everything, so obviously I her and I would just create the content together, and it was very innocent, it was just little singing videos.
Speaker 1:Well, the penny nickel dime video. Was that one of them? Yeah, yeah, it was later on, so that was when I was like 13 or 14.
Speaker 3:I started posting when I was like 11. So even younger. But we started doing that because I told my mom that music was also something that I was interested in pursuing more seriously. But we noticed that I was only 11 years old.
Speaker 3:So there was no sense of us really rushing for that. Instead, let's just do covers, let's just see what happens, let's just post so people get familiar with my face and my voice. But I was always very carefree and a little bit dorky when I was younger that I just didn't care. So we just kind of posted and had fun with it. But I let my mom take care of that and I just was a kid and had fun. But in times that you know I only got to really know the people that I worked on set with. So in that regard it could be kind of lonesome. But I think I'll always hold such a special place in my heart for LA because there's no other place that could have allowed me to do what I love so much.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and you know it's having that support to, like we said, from your parent, like they're, they're your protector, right. So it's so great that you've had that this whole time, since you were 11, you know I think it's also protected me from a lot in this industry too, you know, I think having your parent there and still continues to be my mom's here today.
Speaker 3:You know, I think it's so important to have that, I guess, protector, as you notice.
Speaker 1:Yes, I totally agree. I want to have that person all the way through.
Speaker 2:My mom would be here too If she lived in LA, like she would be here on set with me every single time I love I feel the same energy with like from my mom to your mom, and it's a it's a really special thing because a lot of people don't have that support. So go moms, go support.
Speaker 1:I do let's. I do want to jump into your. To your, though, because, like you said, that's something that you have always been very passionate about, although we're just seeing it now your debut album. Where Did that Girl Go? Dropping June 27th, by the way, the same day as Megan 2.0, so it's kind of a big day.
Speaker 2:Iconic, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, how does that feel to have two major projects launching at the exact same time?
Speaker 3:You know, I think we have that phrase in Texas go big or go home, and that was kind of my mentality with it. I thought what better than to combine my two biggest passions in one? Obviously, I didn't get to decide the Megan to premiere?
Speaker 1:You didn't. I thought you probably sent some messages like guys listen, listen.
Speaker 3:I asked you on the same day, but after we figured out what day it would be, I thought you know what. It's so exciting to be able to talk about two things that you're so excited about. And I feel like this industry is so secretive. And until it all is not, yep, and I thought you know what, let's just put two in one and just go for it and have fun and just see what happens. And with all the press that I've been doing for Megan, it's also just a great way to show audiences what else I have going on, because after one project is done, everybody asks you what's next, absolutely All the time.
Speaker 1:All the time. Is that frustrating In some regard? Like let me just breathe. Yeah, enjoy this one, yeah, and sometimes you don't even know. I don't know what project Half the time. I don't think any of us know we want that consistency.
Speaker 2:That's what we want. We want to be able to do what we love and get paid for it. Yeah, pantsomely.
Speaker 1:Period.
Speaker 2:It seems so easy. Yeah, Simple right.
Speaker 1:So what is the meaning behind the title of the album? Where did that girl go?
Speaker 3:So I'm at this point, I just turned 21 back in may. Happy birthday, thank you. But everybody, like I guess I've been getting comments recently that saying that I'm not like a girl anymore, I'm like a woman, like you're an adult, you're a woman, and that really scares me, like the thought of that, like not being a quote-unquote girl. I mean, I'm always gonna be a girl, but of course you know it. That phrase of adulting and getting into that sphere where you're seen as an adult is so scary but also thrilling and exciting at the same time. And I think that's what.
Speaker 3:Where did that girl go? For me means it's, you know, it's kind of a tribute to my younger self, kind of coming of age moment, but it's also everything in the project is so where I'm at right now and there's like three different spheres. We have like a sweetness to it, there's a saltiness to it, and there's like three different spheres. We have like a sweetness to it, there's a saltiness to it, and there's also just like a bitter, a bitter sweetness to it. It's this whole array of different things that have occurred in my life that have kind of shaped me to be. I don't want to use the woman I am today, but like who I am today, yeah, of course, and you're never going to forget those other versions of yourselves.
Speaker 2:They're always going to be with you. That's the most beautiful part about it and you know your music is making waves in Nashville and beyond. You have, like you said, a lot of different versions in this album. So what kind of got you to that pop infused country sound?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so ironically my relative is Gene Autry, who's like the country singing cowboy, who did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and so from a very young age like just being in Texas and, I think, just being raised on country music and just loving the storytelling that's behind it, I think it's. I've just always been drawn to it. My mom raised me like on Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and all of those iconic women in country, and so I think I've always just been attracted to it, because it's what I've grown up with right.
Speaker 3:But also I don't think any other genre tells the stories that country music does, and so I think I've always just been called to it and I think less things are so generalized now. Everything's just making music about what you want to make music about, but I've always known that that's what I wanted since I was very, very young. I think I started singing a lot of pop music primarily just to start growing my audience in that regard, because so many people are attracted to pop music and there's definitely elements of pop in my tracks, for sure, because Miley Cyrus is one of my favorite artists.
Speaker 3:I've just again grown up with pop music as well, and I think you know a hit's a hit and in pop music there's so many of those. But I love the blend and I love that I can blend the two and that there doesn't have to be a significant oh it's country, oh it's pop, anymore, right, it's an infused infused music.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:Country is the most timeless genre of all infused music. I love that. I feel like country is the most timeless genre of all. It truly is.
Speaker 3:I mean I'm biased, since I'm in it, but I went to college at Belmont University in Nashville.
Speaker 1:No way, and I know when I was I didn't grow up loving country music. I was almost like rebelling against it. Because I'm from the South, I'm like I can't help but like fall in love with country music and to this day it's one of my favorite things to put on the radio, whether it's from 30 years ago, 40 years ago or today, yeah it's just, it's always a bop. So now, before this album, we have to talk about 2024. You released your ep uh psych. We got that's when we first got a taste of your musical style. How would you say that that ep connects with your upcoming album? You?
Speaker 3:You know, I think Psych was very witty and it was the first couple of ideas that I had for my music FBI, six Foot, nothing, even Psych in general all just came from the notes of my phone and just the titles that I've always wanted to write. So in that regard it was kind of what I wanted to first say. But I think when Did that Girl Go is? I think it's more vulnerable. I think it's also seeing new sides. Psych was very I want to say it was pretty bitter. It was very more on the edgier side and when I look to who Jenna is and who I am and who I want to be as an artist and where I want to go, I'm not completely edgy and I didn't want people in psych to think that that was who I was as a person. It was like this person who just experienced all this bad love and rage because at the end of the day I'm only 21 and I really have not had that much relationship experience. But it can kind of come off of like that in psych where I'm just so bitter and mad. But it was just. That was the time of my life where I was writing, I was in my heartbreak era and that's where I was at and with when Did that Girl Go? There's contrast which I'm really excited for people to see.
Speaker 3:I have a love song. I have my first love song that I wrote about my boyfriend and experiencing how healthy love is, and I could never. I mean, I wrote love songs before but nothing that I ever wanted to cut right. And San Diego was that's the song. It was my first song that I really wanted to cut because it felt so real and genuine to me and it was the first time that I felt like, oh, this is like a really healthy thing that I really want to write about.
Speaker 3:And so there is that. But also I have like a little bit of an ode to psych. I have a song called fun dip on there that's very witty and fun and spicy and kind of kind of plays an ode to what psych was. But then I have a song called actor on there, which is like my last track of the project, which talked about how, during the first megan premiere, I went through a breakup and how I was broken up with the same day as like the biggest week of in my life and I had to pretty much pretend that none of that was going on and at the end, this song is like you made me a better actor, and thank you for doing that, like that.
Speaker 2:I love that. Oh, preach, that's like what it is.
Speaker 1:You said earlier, like the adulting is scaring. I feel like you've been adulting longer than I've been adulting. You're so mature the way you're able to handle everything that's been happening in your life over the last you know I think it's just.
Speaker 3:you know, especially in the acting industry, you're surrounded by so many adults. Of course that it's just what you're used to. Sometimes I feel like I get along better with adults than I do with kids my own age because I have been surrounded by more adults than I have kids and you're on set.
Speaker 2:You know the set etiquette right. It's being respectful to everybody on there. And so it's nice when you are on set with other people who are like-minded like that, but you don't always get that.
Speaker 1:No, and you have to continuously remain yourself and know what you bring to the table, but your single On a Budget written by Kelsey Ballerini, jimmy Robbins and Shane McAnally.
Speaker 2:Came out in March and was instantly relatable and catchy. Tell us about that track and what that means to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so On A Budget, really came to me. It was a pitch song. Obviously it was a Kelsey Ballerini song. I did not realize that at the time, though I did not figure out that it was them three who had written the song until I was cutting the vocal.
Speaker 1:Really, what was your like when you feel out Like what? Yeah, but maybe it helped to kind of ease the nerves before you knew.
Speaker 3:I feel like if I knew beforehand I'd be like extra, like right yeah, and I love that my label didn't tell me, because I think they wanted me to really be in love with the song versus like loving the idea that these people were behind it, because I think obviously when, like, a big name is behind a song, obviously it's intriguing, of course, but for me I never want to cut something that's not authentic to me, because most of my songs I have written. There's a few that I haven't, but any song that is an outside song that I've cut has to be authentic to me because I feel like my audience can read through that very quickly.
Speaker 3:And so with On A Budget, it was interesting because I was an online meme when I was younger called Penny Nickel Dime.
Speaker 3:Yes, and that was a difficult time in my life in the sense of receiving like so much hate against something that wasn't even supposed to be anything large.
Speaker 3:Right, it just became a meme because the internet decided it wanted to be a meme and so with that, I'd always wanted to do like a tribute or an ode to it, because it was a time in my life and it's still something that's still brought up till this day, which is ironic to me. But when I heard on a budget that it was a clapback song related to money that had to do like it was just it was clapping back to haters yeah, in money terms, it felt like so oddly coincidental and meant to be, and the fact that I heard it I thought like this is so weird that I did not write this, but it just applies to my situation. So so well, and that's kind of what happened. I heard it and I didn't really do anything with it the first couple of months, but then, after I started thinking about it, I thought you know what? It'd be really fun to start the song with the meme and just go right into it and just kind of clap back at anybody who's ever called me that name.
Speaker 1:We love clapping back. We love a clap back.
Speaker 3:Yes, and so that's what I decided to do, and I'm really grateful that Kelsey, shane and Jimmy believed in me enough to give me that song. At the end of the day, I will never discredit if I don't know, I think some artists. It really frustrates me that they sometimes pretend a song is theirs, that they think they wrote it.
Speaker 1:I'll never do that. I don't believe in that you give credit where it's due. Yeah, absolutely, because one day you might be writing songs for up-and-coming artists and you know it's a full circle thing, yeah 1,000%.
Speaker 2:Everyone deserves their flowers 1,000% 1,000%.
Speaker 1:Well, very excited about all of your music, I think it's so cool Again. You're juggling that, along with everything else you've been juggling for over a decade. But we got to talk about Megan. Yeah, oh my gosh, I was telling her earlier when I first moved to Los Angeles, my first movie premiere I thought it was so Hollywood was the Megan premiere, that's so great.
Speaker 2:I mean, that is so Hollywood. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:In the best way. I moved here from Tampa Florida so there was no big premieres happening there. So so impressed to see what you've done since then, very excited for 2.0. But yeah, let's talk about it. So you've voiced a character hit Blumhouse sci-fi horror film. For those of you who do not watch, who have not seen it yet, 2.0 is dropping June 27. I want to hear about how you landed this role, what the audition process was like voicing a character like this.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So I received the audition through a casting director that I had known for a few years. Typically it comes through your agency, but she told me that they were having a hard time casting for this role called Megan, and I thought, okay, interesting, she's like I think you'd be a really good fit for it. Can you just send me an audition, give it a shot, I'll talk to your team and everything. I'm like sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I get the audition. I didn't know what it was for. All I knew it was for Megan. The character's name is Megan and I thought it was for a video game.
Speaker 3:I had no clue, so I read the brief description. She was an AI robot. I was like interesting. I've always done voiceovers so I can manipulate my voice into different things, but as I was reading the script and kind of the brief about the character, I noticed that she had a lot of sass and wit behind her and I didn't want to read her as a traditional robot because I think that would be very boring.
Speaker 3:And I noticed that she had a lot of dialogue. So I thought, okay, if I read her like a robot, that would be very boring for a very long time because she had just so much dialogue and I thought that was kind of interesting for a video game. But I didn't. I didn't really ask many questions, I just I did it on my bedroom floor closet and sent it in. Just kind of got the voice pretty like instantly and just went with it and sent it in. After that I got called back a couple of times. They were sending me a thing called redirects.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you guys are familiar with that term, but it's pretty much where they give you a, a redirect or a comment of saying hey, can you try this or do this? So they did a few of those. I remember I was in Nashville recording music and they were giving me a few redirects as well and I was like this is so interesting, like obviously they're interested, but I never get my hopes up until I'm on set or the contract's in my hand, because I feel like it's never it, you're never safe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I never save, once it's on tv or out, then we're safe we know how many things have we done where, I mean, I've done so many things where I've never even seen them so you never know until it's, it's there and you're physically seeing it yeah did you know right away that Megan was going to be such a phenomenon?
Speaker 1:No, like dance, like that dance which I still can't do.
Speaker 2:You know the dance when I was watching it. I remember her walking down the hall and I was like you go, girl, and she's a profusa, she was a pussycat dancer, pussycat doll, and professional dancer Laker girl. When I watched that, I'm like, let me try this real quick. Meanwhile I trip over my feet. But did you know when you were filming it? Did you feel that, or were you as shocked as everyone?
Speaker 3:else. I think I was definitely as shocked as everybody else. I knew the script was well done and I knew that it had a very different plot that. I think Hollywood hadn't seen, which I think is always attractive. But the thing is, with a new villain, especially playing one, it's quite intimidating because you don't know how people are going to respond and I didn't realize how passionate the horror community is.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:They are so passionate.
Speaker 1:It's a cult. It's beautiful, yes.
Speaker 3:It's really beautiful to see. They're so sweet and everybody was just so complimentary of it that it was so rewarding and just felt so surreal and insane. But it was not something that I could have predicted. I had no clue.
Speaker 1:And I don't even think Universal and Blumhouse now Right. When did you find out there would be a sequel Like what was that called? Pretty instantly Okay.
Speaker 3:I didn't. I think they I mean they announced it to deadline and everything before I even knew. I found out through that I found out through that and even then I didn't I never wanted to make the assumption that I'm returning until I get the call, of course.
Speaker 2:But of course I saw it and I thought, okay, well hey, yeah, is anyone gonna tell me that, like we're this again? Because I would love to know.
Speaker 3:Exactly. It came really fast after the first one, though, which was so cool and obviously the success of the film in the box office was really surreal as well.
Speaker 3:I mean, you can't predict any of that, and I feel like sometimes I've always been told that having expectations can sometimes lead you to failed realities, and so, even with the second film, it's nerve wracking too, because it's a sequel, and I feel like everybody has a stigma around sequels of oh, is it going to beat the first one? Oh, no, no, no, no. But I really do think our sequel is so well written, but it's also taking the story to new heights where I feel like people are not expecting it. I can't wait.
Speaker 2:I can't wait. I mean, I can wait, I want to see it right now, because I will be watching it like this that's how.
Speaker 1:I watch it.
Speaker 2:Because I want to see it, but I only want to see like a little bit. So I literally watch scary movies like this. It's only a smidgen. I don't want to see the whole screen. I know it's going to something. Bad's going to happen.
Speaker 1:Beyond the horror community, another community that really embraced Megan and the dance. It's Pride Month here. Yes, the gay community loves Megan.
Speaker 2:Loves Megan. What did?
Speaker 1:it mean for you to see Megan embraced so much by the gay community.
Speaker 3:You know, it was really again surreal. It seems like she, it feels like in some way, her bluntness and her sass and everything like I totally see why they love her. They have named her an icon and for me I'm sitting here and it's so surreal. I think it just means so much and obviously I love when, you know, people come up to me and compliment her. But it's so sweet because I feel like the community also didn't even see her as a villain and that was so cool to me that the fact that they didn't even see her as a villain, like they saw her as a hero. And it was so funny because I think that line is people were like well, megan didn't do anything wrong, that's what she was programmed to do and she just loves Katie so much and so she didn't do anything wrong, that's what she was programmed to do and she just loves katie so much, and so she didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 3:Love that, and I think finding that line and seeing who was on her side as a villain versus a hero, yep was so cool you know people, people love to hate the villain, but we love to love.
Speaker 2:We love our villain, we love to love a villain.
Speaker 1:So many reality shows that we love, based on villains yes, what was the most challenging part about? I mean, I know you're a voice actress, so even watching your Penny Nickel Dime video, where you remade it and you resorted- back to your original voice.
Speaker 2:That scared me.
Speaker 1:I'm like I don't even know how did you do that? Yeah, what was the most challenging part, though, about finding the right tone for Megan?
Speaker 3:And did you ever scare yourself a little bit, like creep yourself out, when you were doing the voice? You know? I mean, I think seeing it come out of her mouth was sometimes weird. Yeah, um, I think the most challenging part I think about voice acting in general is not having another face to interact with. It's just you and the mic. And especially for Megan, she doesn't really have emotion because she's a robot, but at the same time she does have empathy and she does have love. So that was an interesting line to find and also to play with those tones, as you mentioned, was another interesting thing, because there's moments, especially in the first film, where she gets mad at Gemma, where she's mad but she's not loud about it right, like it's just scary.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like when your parents don't yell at you. They talk to you like this. I'm like that's the scariest way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like the silent but deadly type of thing and so I think finding that balance with her was the most challenging part, but the director and I, mr jar johnstone, him and I really were collaborative on that sense. There was times where we would go back and forth and say, okay, hey, no, I think this is, this is where she's loud, this is where she's soft. With megan in specific, though, her funniest lines are usually the loudest and her most scary lines are usually the quietest.
Speaker 2:Yes, they are yes, yes, they are. You played an iconic villain, like we just said, a one that people love, one that people are gonna hate, one that people are gonna be scared of. What is your iconic villain like?
Speaker 3:what's your favorite you know this is quite funny. So I grew up watching this movie called Thumbelina I remember Thumbelina. And they have. The mother frog is my favorite villain of all time Go back and rewatch Thumbelina.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, I feel like a lot of people don't expect that because she, you know, it's such an older film and she's not really technically a villain. I mean, in some ways she is, but she just has so much sass and personality and flair and the music and everything tied to it, Like that's my favorite, but I mean in the grand scheme of things, I have to be so biased and say that Megan is also one of my favorites.
Speaker 2:Of course, of course, not course, of course. It's not even biased, it's just facts, I mean obviously, like you could already tell, but I have to confess I am not a horror person.
Speaker 1:After the show we're going to show you. We filmed her watching Megan yesterday. We're going to have to show you. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But were you a fan of horror before you did Megan or no? I was terrified. I was very terrified. I would say I was pretty sheltered in my movie watching when I was young, not because of my parents, but just because I was scared. Yep, just scared, yeah. And so, like you know, after doing Megan it's opened my eyes because I know what it's like behind the scenes. Now I don't really watch anything demonic. Those things really scare me. But I have watched other films that I didn't ever consider watching before.
Speaker 1:Have you seen Jaws yet? I haven't seen Jaws. Go, watch the original Jaws.
Speaker 2:I need to go see Jaws. Just don't go swimming in the ocean after. That's my thing.
Speaker 3:Just wait like a month or two, forget about it and then go in the ocean 27 meters down. I don't know if you guys saw that that one was terrifying.
Speaker 1:All those ocean-based horror movies are. I don't like getting into the ocean past my knees because of that yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, it is terrifying.
Speaker 1:It is terrifying. So did you. Was your approach to voicing Megan 2.0 different from the first one?
Speaker 3:Yes and no. Obviously, you know, if something's not broke, don't fix it, but I mean, that's me like if it's, if it's, if it's not broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 2:If it's not broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 3:No, you were right.
Speaker 2:You were right, sorry let me, let me take a break, hold on before I stutter in this one.
Speaker 3:So obviously I wanted to keep the beauty of what she possessed in the first film, of her sass and her flair and her fun, and I think we only heighten that for the sequel, which is so fun. But also I think now that megan has another villain that she's battling, there's a new side to her and there's almost a heroic side that I'm really excited for audiences to see because, it's this new.
Speaker 3:There's new nuances of her that I don't think the first film really got to see because she was such the villain in the first one right and now in this second film, like it's very action-based. The trailer showed a lot of that, and you know she's battling somebody else now, but she also is protecting Katie at the same time, and there's so much else that goes on.
Speaker 1:So my feelings are going to be all confused. I can't know what to feel.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think there's also a sweetness to it too I think her relationship with Gemma obviously is a little bit rough because she almost murdered her in the first film, but she still has that love for katie, so much so that she'll do anything for her. And again, where does that take her?
Speaker 1:exactly. Do you think megan and chucky could ever be friends on the same, or the chucky just? I don't know if chucky's nice, though at all. I don't know if there's a there's like a emotional what do you think?
Speaker 2:maybe the only time you saw emotional Chucky was like Bride of Chucky A little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 3:I think that a lot of people have brought that up and I think it could be really cool to see a collaboration.
Speaker 1:I would love that Nothing would make me happier. They would be so fun together.
Speaker 2:They would be very iconic together, truly.
Speaker 3:So I guess we shall see. I think, if fans beg Universal and Blumhouse enough, maybe it could happen.
Speaker 1:Guys, start begging, everyone tweet it.
Speaker 2:We need a Chucky and Megan collab ASAP With Megan 2.0 and when Did that Girl Go? Both releasing on June 27th. What are you most excited for your fans to experience with everything that you have coming?
Speaker 1:out.
Speaker 2:Same day yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, I think it's just excitement to show people what I've been working on for so long that I couldn't really share. You know, when it comes to Megan, I'm so excited for them to see her legacy continue and, you know, hopefully, hopefully, we get a third, like that would be amazing. I'm just excited for people to see where she goes next and, like, also just see the different sides of her in this film and just the love that we've received has just been so, so awesome and sweet. And seeing people collect memorabilia and just have dolls of her is just insane. So it's really truly, I think, exciting to see where and I guess, what people love about the second one, what lines become iconic, what moments are special and mean something to them.
Speaker 3:And I think, with my music, I'm just excited for people to get more of who Jenna is. I think when Words Fail, music speaks and to tell stories that they haven't heard before. But to also be able to have enough music to go out and tour and get out there and to perform live, I think is what really excites me and entices me. But there's so much variety in this project that I'm excited for people to be able to click and hear the next one and just be like, oh, this sonically sounds the same, but it's different. Yep, this is a story. What's this, what's this? You know, it's that excitement, and I think just to finally release what I've been hiding for so long.
Speaker 2:Is there a person that you would are manifesting to go on tour with?
Speaker 1:like any dream collaborations, you know.
Speaker 3:I think I love, I love Miley Cyrus so much.
Speaker 3:Uh, I think Megan Maroney is such a sweet, like girly, like she seems like a big sister to me. I've never met her but just like her girliness I think could be really cool to open for her one day. I think she's incredible. Also Kelsey Ballerini again like having two songs written by her would also be a really cool moment and another like big sister moment and just like a lot of women in country, like it's so sweet. But I don't think I'm pivoting or I guess pinpointing anybody in particular, because just how it isn't acting.
Speaker 3:I'm like, whatever opportunity is going to come up, absolutely here we go and I'm going to learn from it and I'm going to love it and I'm just going to have a blast with it. So, it's so open ended, and I think that's a beautiful thing about this industry is that you never know what's going to happen next. That's the most exciting part.
Speaker 2:I learned so much today. It's like it's, it's we.
Speaker 1:we know that, but it's always nice to hear somebody else to say that we can tell it to ourselves. All look up to you and I can only imagine the interactions that you have had with them. What would be some advice that you would give to, like the youngest performers, the ones starting out at creating content at eight, nine, 10?
Speaker 3:You know, I think it's authenticity and consistency is the biggest thing, and not wavering from being you or posting about you or being afraid to post about you. I think so many people want to replicate things that have already been done or try to be somebody else or try to be quote unquote cool, when I don't think anybody really knows how to be cool. I think we just create those images in our head of who we think is cool and I have to remind myself that a lot and I think, especially as I've gotten older, you know you care more about what you look like on screen, you care more about this, and I try to always look back to my younger self of being so carefree and not caring about hey, oh my gosh, you had a double chin in that click, or you had this and that, or you had this and that.
Speaker 1:it's more just being you and being authentic and being real, because I think at the end of the day, people are going to watch you if you're relatable and if you admit hey I'm human yeah, and that's real this is me, yeah, yeah, I love that well, jenna, it has been such a pleasure having you on milk and honey, as I really appreciate you again taking the time uh, amidst all of your crazy press tour and schedule, getting ready for everything that's coming out Before we do wrap up, as it just about knocked my mic off of it. Hold on, it's this damn reverb. Where can our listeners find all the information about what you got coming up?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm just everywhere pretty much at Jenna Davis, spotify, apple Music, instagram, tiktok, deezer, tidal, you know all the things in the world. Amazon Music everywhere, youtube Snapchat everywhere.
Speaker 1:Everywhere. Jenna Davis, that's me I love it.
Speaker 2:And everyone listening. Don't forget to check out Jenna's single on a budget Miss Wannabe in San Diego and mark your calendars for when Did that Girl Go? And Megan 2.0 on June 27th.
Speaker 1:All right, thank you guys for tuning in. Yes, thank you so much. Thank you, see you next time.
