- And our next guest is a
fellow "American Idol" alum. She's gone on to great success
in both music and acting. Her new show is called "Country Comfort," and it's on Netflix,
you got to check it out. Please say hello to
Katherine McPhee Foster. (upbeat music)
(audience cheering) - Wow. (indistinct crosstalk) (music fades) - [Kelly] How are you?
- I'm good. - [Kelly] Yeah?
- This is so cool to be- - We're out.
- I know- - We're out. - And there's people
here, sort of, you know, they're with us- - [Kelly] They're live, they're live. - [Katherine] Oh, it's so
cute to see them breathing. - Yeah, it's nice to see you. - It's so nice to see you. - It's kind of a weird... like even if we all don't
know each other well, we run into each other and
it's like, (Kelly gasps) "We were all in camp together." - We're all in camp together. We're all in high school together. We're like a performing
art school together. It feels like that. - And it was kind of like... I feel like it was just a very... I don't know, I feel like I'll never experience anything like it. It was just such a hard
thing like right off the bat and everything was thrown at you. And it's like if you survived
that gauntlet, you've got it. - I think, especially back then too I feel like they made it so... Now I see them with in-ears, like they have a special
monitor, I'm like, "What?! We never had that." - I remember they were like... I was like, "I can't hear..." All of us, we were like, "We can't hear." They were like, well, it ruined the stage to put the floor monitors on the- - [Katherine] Remember
how you couldn't hear? - [Kelly] So they buried
them under the stage. So you're listening for your
pitch and it's under the stage- - I just always blamed my
attitude singing on that. - Yes, I do too.
- Of course, yes. (both chuckle) - So you just became a mom, congratua- - [Katherine] I did- - You don't look like you
just became a mom, well done. - Thank you. It's been four weeks. He's like four weeks and a day today. - Wow.
- Yeah, he's- - Oh my God, are you tired? - [Katherine] I'm a li... No, I'm so happy to be
here, are you kidding me? - [Kelly] You want me to say
I'm tired. (Kelly chuckles) - I'm a little bit tired here and there, but I find times to nap and
he's such a good little baby and I'm so in love. I mean, you're a mom. It's the greatest... It's my greatest job I'll ever have. - And it will be... I know it's so cliche, but it will be the hardest, because you... the hardest thing for me is
when they're so freaking cute and you love them so much, but they're doing something
that's naughty and you're like, "Nope, well not twist
me around your finger." - [Katherine] Someone told me that, my girlfriend was doing my hair today, she was like, "Oh, can you even imagine that you're gonna have to
get mad at him one day?" I'm like, "No, he's so sweet right now. I can't imagine." - [Kelly] Trust me, it'll
happen. (both chuckle) It'll happen and you'll go. "Whose child are you?"
- [Katherine] Exactly, yeah. - [Kelly] But congrats on the new show. - Thank you. - [Kelly] So what does
"Country Comfort" about? - Thank you. It's about a girl named Bailey who is a aspiring country artist. She is in a band with her boyfriend. They've been together for nine years. They still haven't made it. And he decides one day,
he's going to inform her that she's being replaced
by a younger blonder, sexier lead singer, and he thinks that he can still maintain
a relationship with her and she's like, "Heck
no, to heck with you." And she gets in her car and starts driving and her car breaks down, things
are not going well for her. And she knocks on a door to get a phone, her phone has died as well, and the door opens and it's
a house full of five children who think that she's the new nanny. They've gone through about
six different nannies, and they think that she's the new nanny. And she's like, "No, no, I
just need to use a phone." And all takes place in
the South, in Nashville. And she decides because she has no job now and no place to live that she's going to take this nanny job, and the rest is sort of, you have to watch and see what happens
on her little journey. - You actually, I feel like, do you like acting even more than singing? I feel like we're opposite. - We're a little bit... Yeah, we're opposites. And I think I kind of knew that when I was going onto "Idol". I think I knew that I was going to try and go into television
and I wanted to sing, but I've been really lucky to find shows that have both the acting and the singing. Like I did "Smash" and now this newest one with music and I, yeah,
I think I like hiding behind the guise of somebody else. I mean, I being putting an
album out like Katherine McPhee or Kelly Clarkson, there's so much... there's something so
vulnerable about that. And not that I'm- - I have never named an
album Kelly Clarkson. - Okay. (Katherine chuckles)
- There's a reason- - [Katherine] There's
a reason maybe, yeah. - Yeah, it's a lot of pressure. - [Katherine] I made that
mistake the first album. - Oh, I did not do that. I was like, "Can't do
it." (Kelly chuckles) - Yeah, but there's something... you know, it's you're
selling yourself, right? If you are the instrument,
and so, I dunno, I think I just really like
standing behind somebody's words and whether I connect
to those words or not as a different person. And so, yeah, I've always liked
acting but I didn't realize that it would be the thing that
I really ended up pursuing. I was already pursuing it
before I went on "Idol", but I kind of went... I spent a lot of years
auditioning for stuff and not getting them and
making relationships, so, yeah, I love it. - [Kelly] I think you're right. I tell people that like
artists on "The Voice" that too that are on my team, or even
on other teams, I'm like, "Don't look at this as
this is your big thing. Look at this and take the next step." Because even after I won, like I was playing like
state fairs, nobody... Like it was hard. You still have to keep working like it doesn't get just like overnight... Well, 'cause "Idol" is an amazing... It's like a camp, right,
where you're learning stuff, but, I mean, I did not know
anything about live performing. I didn't know how to command a stage. I did the same thing. I did state fairs and there was literally, it could have filled 10,000 people and there were 100 people there and I had to really learn, you know, that helped my acting- - [Kelly] To navigate back,
humility. (Kelly laughs) - [Katherine] How's
everyone doing out there? (Katherine claps slowly)
(audience laughs) And I was like, "Okay,
I'm going to just..." - [Kelly] I'm just going to
nail this for all 12 of you. - [Katherine] All 12
of you. (Kelly laughs) But I had several shows like
hundreds of shows like that. - [Kelly] It builds character- - It does, it builds character, and you learn how to just
kind of push through it and find a way to enjoy
it just for what it is no matter how many people are out there, so it helped both singing
and acting, I think. - [Kelly] I love that. I love that. Well, you have a clip from the show. Does it need a set up? It can always use a setup, but I think I'm going to
just let it speak for itself. And you know, let's just say, there's a reason why you won first on "American Idol", I came in second. Let's just watch this.
- [Kelly] Wait, what? - But then, honey, some
kind of miracle happened. I heard this voice calling out to me. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Stand a little taller, something, something,
something when I'm alone. And that's what I knew God was trying to send me a message via Kelly Clarkson. And now Cassidy, Kelly Clarkson
via me is sending it to you. You gotta be strong. You gotta carry on. You gotta-
- Good Lord. - Yay!
(audience laughing) - Wait, first of all, I love
that that's like how I sound on stage sometimes when I
forget lyrics. (Kelly laughs) Ah, yada yada yada. - Yada yada yada... Bailey, the character that I play, you are Bailey's superstar Idol, so... We referenced you a couple of times actually in episode eight, I just watched a little
bit of it last night. There's a whole other
scene where I'm crying on the bed and the kids
come in and they're like, "Don't you remember when you
referenced Kelly Clarkson?" And I'm like, "No, no, I'm
not as strong as Kelly." It's like a whole... So you are an icon. - [Kelly] I love your accent. - Oh, thanks.
- [Kelly] Nicely done. - I try.
- [Kelly] Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Well, even though you prefer acting, you're singing with my band
next, which I love your voice. - Thank you. - [Kelly] I'm trying to
remember my favorite... I think it might've been
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" was in "Idol"-
- Yeah. - [Kelly] That was one of my favorite ones that anybody's ever done. It was so beautiful and pure. And anyway, I'm excited for you to sing. I know you like acting. - This is a little bit of the
country version of myself- - No, I love it. I love country too. You're in the right place. So what song are you doing? What's it called? - It's called "Right Kind of Trouble", and it's actually an original song that they found for
this particular episode. I don't remember what episode it's in, but it's a song that my
character sings in the show, so I just thought like I would, you know, do something that I sang in the show.
