“The chef there… let me cook on the line during busy nights.
It was pretty incredible that they let me in,” White tells EW.
Sun’s out, fun’s out!
Jeremy Allen White on ‘The Bear’.FX
To play the highly talented chef, White went full method in the restaurant world.
“He had to work extremely hard,” co-showrunner Joanna Calo tells EW.
“Jeremy is very good with his knife now.”
Jeremy Allen White on ‘The Bear’.FX
“I went to two weeks of cooking school.
I worked in several really wonderful restaurants in Los Angeles, Chicago, and in New York.
He let me cook on the line during busy nights.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jeremy Allen White on ‘The Bear’.FX
It was pretty incredible that they really let me in.”
White’s training wasn’t the only way in whichThe Bearstrove for authenticity in portraying restaurant culture.
The stories that Matty would tell always involved a lot of violence and insanity and then also love."
Ayo Edebiri on ‘The Bear’.FX
“I was really struck by the commitment and the time,” he says.
“I have such a tremendous amount of respect for people in restaurants now.
Calo made sure to infuse that high stakes, extreme stress, never-stop-working attitude intoThe Bear.
They can’t stop.
“You meet Carmy in the most vulnerable time of his life,” White explains.
Does he want to wreck it?
Does he want to make it something else, or have it stay what it is?
Is he mad at his brother?
There are just so many questions about family.”
AfterwrappingShamelessonly a year ago, White was hesitant to play yet another young guy struggling in Chicago onThe Bear.
But he boiled it down to one important fact: Lip and Carmy are two completely different characters.
Calo adds that no one has seen White like this before.
