'The Bear' stars Abby Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to chat about the episode titled "Ice Chips" in season three, where Elliot's character, Natalie, gives birth, during this THR Emmys Lounge conversation.
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00:00Shh. What are you doing, Mom?
00:03I'm coaching.
00:04You're just coaching. You must breathe, Natalie.
00:06No, this is stressing me out.
00:07Yes, you have to breathe. No, it's calming you down.
00:09No, it's not.
00:10So have you watched Ice Chips recently?
00:13No. No.
00:14No. I have not.
00:15No, I watched it that one time.
00:18Yeah, yeah. Me too.
00:19I mean, I watched it when it aired.
00:21We never rehearsed any of it.
00:23No, no.
00:24You and I never spoke about it.
00:25We didn't.
00:26We were in that hospital room at 8.30 in the morning.
00:29Yep.
00:30And we did one take of it.
00:33Mm-hmm.
00:34Chris just said, I'm going to reposition the cameras.
00:37Yeah, exactly.
00:38No, he said, I'm going in tighter.
00:40Yeah.
00:41On all three cameras.
00:42I want to go again.
00:44We did 25 pages in one take together.
00:50And then he said, cut, Abby is wrapped.
00:55And I'm telling you.
00:56Yeah.
00:57I know.
00:58It was 10, 15.
00:59I know.
01:00It was.
01:01It was.
01:02It was the morning.
01:03I had the full day.
01:04You had the whole day.
01:05What the hell do I do now?
01:06We had just shot an entire episode.
01:08I know.
01:09Of that show in one, basically in two takes.
01:13Yeah.
01:14Down.
01:15Slow it.
01:16It's working.
01:17There you go.
01:18There you go.
01:19There you go.
01:20There you go.
01:21There you go.
01:22There you go.
01:23There you go.
01:24See it works.
01:25Yeah.
01:26See it works.
01:27Yeah.
01:28I knew that I was going to have a labor episode.
01:30I did not know that it would be with you.
01:33What I loved so much, when I did finally get to read the script, was this isn't about birth.
01:38Or it is, but it's, the birth is symbolic.
01:41And it's about, you know, the connection and diving into this complicated relationship.
01:48And she's the last person that I want to call.
01:53But the only person that's there when I need someone.
01:57Honey, honey, honey, honey.
01:58I'm right here.
01:59Honey, honey.
02:00No, no, no.
02:01This is so great.
02:02Mom, mom.
02:03I love you.
02:04No, no, no.
02:05You must breathe.
02:06I'm begging you.
02:07You must breathe.
02:08When you watch it, and again, maybe now I'll go back and watch it again.
02:10It has that feeling of it being very alive and very live.
02:16It's alive.
02:17Yeah.
02:18I can't imagine another opportunity where I would have that level of freedom.
02:24It was such a wonderful experience, and I feel the same way.
02:27I feel like that was the most free that I will ever be on camera.
02:30And the work shows.
02:31It's, it's a just gorgeous, gorgeous episode of television.
02:36You're incredible.
02:37And it's…
02:38I love doing it with you.
02:39I love doing it with you, too.
02:40But I'm really lucky that I got to be your scene partner and mother…
02:45I feel so lucky, too.
02:46…and friend and all that.
02:48I respect you great.
02:49I love you.
02:50I love you.
02:51I love you.