The Hollywood Reporter spoke with the cast of 'The Bear' all about the new season, including that stunning first episode. Warning! Spoilers for the premiere episode of season 3 ahead. 'The Bear' begins its new season with an episode utterly unlike any other in the series. Jeremy Allen White and Abby Elliott, who play Carmen's and his sister, Natalie, shared their thoughts on the episode that's a meditative exploration of Carmy's past, present and future as a chef.
00:10The Hollywood Reporter spoke to the cast all about the new season,
00:13including that stunning first episode.
00:15Warning, spoilers for the premiere episode of season three ahead.
00:18The Bear begins its new season with an episode utterly unlike any other in the series.
00:23Jeremy Ellen White and Abby Elliott, who play Carmi and his sister Natalie,
00:27share their thoughts on the episode that's a meditative exploration of Carmi's past, present and future as a chef.
00:33It felt to me like walking around in somebody's mind and I think it felt very like fresh and new.
00:41And yeah, just like exciting in its structure and style.
00:49It just felt different while also being very much at the heart, like the same as what we do in our show, you know.
00:57Yeah, I think that episode felt like a puzzle piece of like, oh, this has, this has been there the entire time.
01:03How do we not, this is, this was there and this is the story there and now we get to see it.
01:10Evan Moss Bacharach, who plays Richie, and Ricky Staffieri, who plays Theodore Fack, also spoke about the episode.
01:16It's like this beautiful collage origin story that it doesn't, it doesn't really exist on the page very well.
01:22It really is true cinema in the way that it exists on the screen.
01:26You know, I can't even, I don't even remember what the script of it is like.
01:30It's so fractured. It's such a, like a poem of a thing.
01:33Um, I don't, I mean, watching it, I was, I thought it was the most cinematic episode we've made.
01:39I, it was like, I thought it was really breathtaking.
01:43Yeah, I remember, I remember it being off the page, very poetic, how Evan's saying where it is like a table setter into Carmi's life.
01:50That I think is like the anchor, you know, for the season in a way.
01:54I think that reading that you can kind of put yourself, I don't know, I'm speaking for myself, but I, you know, where this journey could go or, you know, where it's been, you know, for this, for this character, you know, Carmi.
02:07Um, I think, yeah.
02:09Yeah, he's such a closed book, Carmi, that it's, it's nice. It's sort of the first peak.
02:14I felt like we got to, to, to see really what's going on in there.
02:17Plus Iowa debris opened up about the apology scene between her character, Sydney and Carmi that's featured in the season premiere and how it might define their relationship going forward.
02:26I think it definitely is in the vein of apologies of the show.
02:31There's like, reminds me of Sydney and Richie's sort of non apology apology.
02:36Like there's, um, there's a lot of that in the show.
02:40I think that communication is definitely a running theme of the third season.
02:47And sometimes that means a lack of it.
02:50And like, uh, people who they think that they're communicating or they're frustrated, but also like the choices they're making aren't necessarily behooving actual conversation or productive conversation.
03:01Uh, so yeah, I definitely think it, it, it, it, it does mean something.
03:06Adeburi makes her directorial debut with the show's sixth episode this season.
03:10She also revealed how she approached directing her co-stars.
03:13I'm working with some of the greatest working actors literally ever.
03:17Uh, and also our crew, which is so talented and so hardworking and so collaborative.
03:22So I think for me, it was like, how can I be a vessel for that collaboration and that level of skill and just allow everybody to do their best.
03:30I mean, I think that's some of like the directing that I have loved is where I feel like it's people who are facilitating everybody else doing their best and wanting to show up and be their best and work their hardest.
03:40And you just have to create the conditions for that.
03:43So I feel like that was part of my, my job, I guess.
03:47For much more from The Hollywood Reporter's interviews with the cast of The Bear, head to THR.com.
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