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Ayo Edebiri chats with THR at the 2024 Emmy Awards red carpet and dishes on the success of 'The Bear.' Plus, she looks back at her early audition days, recording in front of a blue screen with 'Bottoms' co-star Rachel Sennott.

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00:00So proud of you, congratulations. What a year, what a season. How does it feel now
00:06that The Bear has literally made so much history, to be a part of a show as a
00:11phenomenal and as moving as The Bear? What does it feel like now, three years?
00:14Very surreal, I'd say. Really strange and surreal, but nice. It's like icing on the
00:21cake and I think the cake is just that we get to make work together. I really
00:24really love everyone who helps the show become the show, from the cast to the
00:30crew and it's nice, yeah. I love that this current, this latest season has so
00:38many fans in an uproar, like I love how many people are connected to the show
00:42and they're so invested in the characters that there's literally like
00:44division about what should happen next, but what's your favorite part about how
00:48the fans really connect with The Bear? I think that people are connecting at all
00:53and wanting to engage, I think is great. I think because it means that it's
00:58striking some sort of chord, whether hopefully it's like a real-life one, you
01:03know, that people feel invested and care. That's really nice and really lucky
01:10honestly because there's a lot of TV and a lot of it is good. That's the reality
01:15of this landscape. A lot of it is very very good and not all of it pops off or
01:20also gets like support from networks or whatever and so the fact that we have
01:24both is a great fortune, yeah. Can we take it back to your first audition in this
01:30industry? Do you remember for what, what was it for? We're doing a little roundup
01:35of first auditions. Oh, whoa. I know, it's been so long, but if you can remember one of your
01:42first auditions, what? I just, there was a season of real intense self-taping and I
01:48was living in New York still at the time and Rachel Sennett, who's like one
01:52of my best friends and who, she co-wrote this movie Bottoms. I was directed by Emma
01:56Seligman that we were in together and so she's just been like one of my girls
02:00from day one, but Rachel had a blue screen and so everybody would go to
02:06Rachel's apartments and she would set up this like foldable blue screen from like
02:10Amazon that probably cost like ten bucks, but it felt like a million and so that
02:15would be like our background for the tapes and I have a lot of memories of
02:18folding up that blue screen.
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