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It’s the GQ Friendship Quiz, as we put The Bear duo Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri’s friendship to the test.
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00:00Ayo, are you guys competitive?
00:02Yeah.
00:02Yeah.
00:04He and me!
00:04I said it first!
00:06Hi GQ, I'm Ayo Adebri.
00:08And I'm Jeremy Ellen White.
00:09And this is the GQ Friendship Quiz.
00:14Jeremy?
00:15Yeah?
00:15What's my full first name?
00:18Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:21Flav...
00:22Flav?
00:24Flav?
00:25There's Ayo in it, but it's not...
00:28Your first name is not...
00:31What's the clock looking like?
00:32What's the countdown looking like?
00:33Is not Ayo.
00:34Three?
00:34It's the last three letters of your first name is Ayo.
00:38Obviously.
00:39What is that obvious?
00:40To some.
00:41I don't...
00:42No.
00:43Fumilayo.
00:43Do I get any points?
00:45Nope.
00:45Zero?
00:46Flav?
00:47When is my birthday?
00:49God damn it.
00:51Three, two, one, October 3rd.
00:53Yup.
00:53I'm gonna smoke your ass.
00:55Yeah, this is bad.
00:56Before the bear, did I know how to cook?
00:58Not really.
01:00What?
01:00I mean, you knew how to like make some stuff, but I wouldn't say you were like a...
01:04You're wicked.
01:05A great home cook.
01:06I literally was.
01:07You can ask people.
01:08When we met, you were like, no, like I don't really like have it like that.
01:13And we went to culinary school and you were like, I don't know.
01:16In culinary school, I was like way better than you when we started.
01:19I didn't say I knew how to cook before we started.
01:21But I was like decent.
01:23Zero points.
01:24I knew how to cook.
01:25Where did we first meet?
01:27We met in culinary school.
01:29What's the first thing I said to you when we met?
01:31Is that on that piece of paper?
01:32Yeah, it is.
01:33Bonus.
01:34Hello.
01:35I'm Io.
01:35I don't know.
01:36What are we talking about?
01:37Honestly, I don't remember.
01:39So...
01:39So that's a point.
01:40Yeah, I didn't write this question.
01:41So you get two points.
01:42There we go.
01:42Because you need them.
01:43Yeah, I do.
01:44Jeremy, what is my favorite British crime show?
01:48Fuck, I should really know this.
01:49This is embarrassing.
01:51Like Broadchurch or...?
01:53Interesting.
01:54I actually wrote in a notes app.
01:56We could pull up my phone.
01:57Yeah.
01:57I wrote a list of shows that I would consider acceptable for this answer.
02:01Okay.
02:02And that was not on it?
02:03It was Poirot, Midsummer Murders, Vera.
02:06Midsummer Murders.
02:07You're the rabbit I really like.
02:09But you reminded me that I really do enjoy Broadchurch.
02:13What's up?
02:13So we're gonna give them a point for that.
02:14There we go.
02:15Who is my industry idol?
02:17Have you worked with them before?
02:19Who says...
02:19You don't get to ask questions back to the questions.
02:22Julia Roberts?
02:23Oh, that's a good one.
02:25Yeah.
02:25Yeah.
02:26What did I originally intend to pursue professionally?
02:30Teaching...
02:31Correct.
02:32One point.
02:33English.
02:33What would Jeremy teach?
02:35Drama regime.
02:36Drama regime.
02:37Do I believe in any conspiracy theories?
02:39Bonus, what are they?
02:40If I do believe in any.
02:42Yes.
02:43Go on?
02:44I don't know.
02:45Cool.
02:46But...
02:47Point?
02:48There we go.
02:49What's my favorite restaurant to eat at in Chicago?
02:53Doma.
02:55Doma.
02:55This is interesting.
02:56Remember when someone said I'm gonna have zero points?
02:58I think it was literally...
03:00Was it?
03:04What character have I played that's most like my own personality?
03:08This is interesting.
03:09I mean, I don't know.
03:09I think Sid is like close to you for sure.
03:12Yeah.
03:13I don't know.
03:13What do you think?
03:14I don't know.
03:14We're still building the body of work.
03:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:17Give him half a point.
03:18We'll care...
03:18Give him a whole point.
03:19There we go.
03:20Who was my childhood crush?
03:22Oh, damn.
03:23Um...
03:23Like celebrity.
03:24Like Henry Winkler?
03:25I don't know.
03:28Can I be honest?
03:30Not far off.
03:31Right?
03:31Is that it?
03:32Yeah.
03:32You're in the ballpark.
03:34You're genuinely in the ballpark.
03:36I don't know.
03:37It's okay.
03:38Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk.
03:39Yes, I knew that.
03:41Oh, fuck.
03:42All right.
03:42Monk, you didn't know it enough.
03:43No, I didn't know it enough.
03:44What is it I like about him?
03:45I probably was just a young child who didn't know she was neurotic yet.
03:49Specific to Monk.
03:51Specific to Monk.
03:52I have run into him enough times and his wife.
03:55Actually, the first time we met, this is so embarrassing, I was like, like, verklempt.
04:00He was like, this is my wife, Brooke Adams.
04:03He was like, chill.
04:03And I was like, no, for sure.
04:04No, for sure.
04:05And respect to the union.
04:07She's on Monk a lot.
04:08She's very excellent in it.
04:09Also would have accepted Lee Thompson Young in the famous Jet Jackson.
04:13Larry the Cucumber.
04:15Shout out anybody who has Christian trauma.
04:18And this girl Fatima used to work at a Dunkin Donuts near my house.
04:22Who did I direct a music video for in 2025?
04:27Clara.
04:28Correct.
04:29Hold point.
04:29How did I first get into comedy?
04:32You were at NYU already.
04:34Correct?
04:35We were in New York.
04:36Okay.
04:36Let's do that version.
04:37Okay.
04:38You went to an open mic, I'm going to guess.
04:41Brother.
04:41Come on.
04:42Let's get a little specific.
04:42Is there like a story?
04:43There's a few.
04:44There are a few.
04:45Yeah.
04:46So if we're doing college era.
04:48Before college.
04:49Yeah.
04:50Before college really.
04:51Okay.
04:51What's the story?
04:53I started doing improv in like eighth grade.
04:55Because we had to take a mandatory theater class.
04:57And then I did a character that was a church lady.
05:01And then my theater teacher at the time who did improv in Boston was like you need to do improv.
05:06And so that's where I started.
05:07And then at NYU I would say I tried out for improv groups.
05:10Okay.
05:10And then I didn't make any of them or any of the sketch groups.
05:13But then I met people in those audition rooms.
05:17And one of them was a young Miss Rachel Sennett.
05:19Oh yeah.
05:19And Rachel was like I'm doing open mics in the city.
05:21So if you're trying to actually get to work, let's get to work.
05:24I got you.
05:24So half a point.
05:26No, no points.
05:27Oh, okay.
05:28I'm going to add a question because I feel like fucking with you.
05:31Who's my favorite Japanese director?
05:34And what is my favorite film by them?
05:37And I will accept two answers.
05:38I will accept two answers for this.
05:41Um, animation?
05:45I will accept three answers.
05:46I will accept three answers for this.
05:48Are we like Spirited Away?
05:50Ghibli Zone?
05:52I put on a platter I gave it to this man.
05:54Let's go.
05:55On a platter.
05:56Let's go.
05:57No.
05:58No?
05:58No.
05:59Oh.
05:59I would have accepted Akira Kurosawa, Juzo Itami, or Satoshi Kon.
06:04Though I love and respect Mr. Miyazaki.
06:07Okay.
06:08Deeply.
06:09Absolute softball for the last one.
06:11Who's my dog named after?
06:13Well that's Gromit from Austin Gromit.
06:15Aw Jeremy.
06:17A point.
06:18There we go.
06:18Gromit and Jeremy I would say have an understanding.
06:20Though after the results of today's quiz, it's looking tough.
06:25Let's count it.
06:25To me what you got right was one.
06:27One.
06:28Two.
06:29Three.
06:30Four.
06:31Five.
06:31Six.
06:32Seven.
06:32All right.
06:33Are you ready?
06:33Yeah.
06:34You feel good?
06:35Enough.
06:35All right.
06:36Let's see.
06:36Where was I born?
06:38Brooklyn.
06:38No.
06:39Manhattan.
06:39Next.
06:40What is my zodiac?
06:43Your birthday's in February.
06:45Yeah.
06:45What's my zodiac though?
06:46You're an Aquarius?
06:48Yeah.
06:49Do I act like my zodiac for a bonus point?
06:51Annoying.
06:52Yes.
06:52Well, that shouldn't count cause that's like opinion.
06:54That's not fact.
06:55So I'll give you one point.
06:57Yeah.
06:57Do I have any siblings?
06:59Yeah.
07:00That feels like worse than Gromit and Wallace and Gromit.
07:04Give me the point.
07:04You do.
07:05That's crazy.
07:06Like a quarter of a point.
07:07That's on you guys.
07:08And I know her name.
07:09What is my sports team?
07:11The Mets.
07:12That's a hat I wear all the time.
07:14What is my sports team?
07:19It doesn't feel good on the other side of it.
07:21I'll admit it.
07:21But the cards make you mad with power.
07:24The feeling of it.
07:25It's really nice.
07:26It does feel really good.
07:26It's like hard to explain.
07:27You just have to get in the seat.
07:28You'll understand.
07:29Is not the Mets?
07:30No.
07:31I don't really have a sports team.
07:32So zero point.
07:33But the hat you wear all the time.
07:34That's just like a security blanket.
07:37You get a half a point.
07:39Okay.
07:39Okay.
07:40What styles of dance am I trained in?
07:45You can tap.
07:46Mm-hmm.
07:47I believe that's it.
07:50You also did do gymnastics though.
07:52Mm-hmm.
07:53But I believe just tap.
07:55Tap ballet and jazz.
07:56I knew jazz.
07:58I knew jazz.
07:58I'll give you like .3.
08:01Three.
08:02We have to run back the tape.
08:04Because I was being very generous.
08:06I don't know.
08:06Over some shoddy answers.
08:08Give him half a point.
08:10Look here.
08:10Give him a whole point.
08:11There we go.
08:12What is my favorite chef's skill I learned while playing Carmi?
08:17I think you enjoyed being able to cut, chop really fast.
08:22And I think you also really enjoyed being able to make a steak au poivre.
08:27Yeah.
08:28You got a full point for that one.
08:30Thanks.
08:30That's what?
08:32You answered the question.
08:33I gave you the point.
08:34What was the last scene you and I ever filmed while working together making the bear?
08:40The last scene that we filmed was a scene with a group.
08:44It was with everybody.
08:45Yes.
08:46But the last scene that you and I filmed you and I included an embrace.
08:53The last scene we shot was, yeah, the scene kind of with everybody.
08:56The last scene that just you and I shot together was an embrace.
09:00Yeah.
09:01Yep.
09:02That's a point.
09:03That's a point.
09:03Absolutely.
09:04Who do I wish I could work with someday?
09:08Oh.
09:10I don't know if I know this.
09:12I have a couple in my head.
09:14Okay.
09:15Maybe Robert Pattinson.
09:19He's great.
09:21Okay.
09:21Not on the list.
09:22Not on the list.
09:23Okay.
09:23Jodie Comer.
09:25Jodie Comer legend.
09:26Um.
09:27Think like a young Jeremy.
09:28Like a teenage Jeremy who would...
09:32Like the boy from Hamnet?
09:33No, like go a little bit.
09:34Yeah.
09:36I'm like think a little bit older.
09:37Like get out of our age range of Jodie Comer and Robert Pattinson.
09:42You know what I mean?
09:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:44De Niro, Ben Stiller.
09:46They're all great.
09:47None of them are in the list.
09:50Who?
09:50Have I ever seen a movie?
09:51Question.
09:52Who?
09:53What like movies were you watching?
09:54What were you watching?
09:55You were watching like, uh, the Rambo, the Warriors.
09:59The wild ones.
10:00The wild ones.
10:01Um.
10:01Yeah.
10:02Likes to smoke cigarettes as much as I like to smoke cigarettes.
10:06People are picking it up.
10:07Who's smoking cigs?
10:09Sean Penn.
10:11Oh, Sean Penn.
10:12There you go.
10:13Sean Penn.
10:13There you go.
10:14There you go.
10:14Sean Penn.
10:15So you don't get a point for that one, unfortunately, because I really had to get you there.
10:19But I named a lot of good people.
10:20You did.
10:21Who you agree you would like to work with.
10:22But I told you before we started, I have like a couple people in my head.
10:25What was my character's name on Shameless?
10:29Lip.
10:30Bonus.
10:31Don't ask me the full thing.
10:32His full name.
10:33Mmm.
10:35Michael, uh, Lip, Lipowitz?
10:39No.
10:40Um.
10:41Is like, is Lip in his first name?
10:43Lip's in his first name.
10:44Really?
10:45Phillip.
10:46Yes.
10:47Okay.
10:47One and a half.
10:49I guess.
10:49Yeah, exactly.
10:50Yeah.
10:51What was my most embarrassing moment on the set of The Bear?
10:55I don't think you've had any embarrassing moments on the set.
10:58I find you always to be honest, professional, truthful, and a great coworker.
11:02That's a nice answer, but I, as you were speaking-
11:04You thought I was?
11:06Oh!
11:06You bastard!
11:08Um, wait.
11:08Okay.
11:09Was I there?
11:10It was the first scene we shot after we were, like after the pilot.
11:14After the pilot, the first-
11:15And I had to shoot the, like, kitchen dream sequence.
11:19Yeah.
11:19But it was, like, the first scene that we shot.
11:21Oh, I wasn't there that day.
11:22Yeah.
11:23And I was so, like-
11:25Just, like, nervous?
11:25Rattled.
11:26And it was so long.
11:27It's not even actually embarrassing, though.
11:29That's the most embarrassing.
11:30I get a point.
11:30You get a half a point.
11:31Yeah.
11:32For fucking blowing your ass up with kindness?
11:35You get a half a point.
11:37You get a half a point.
11:37You get a half a point.
11:37Uh-
11:38This is an interesting reflection of the way that the world is rigged.
11:41What?
11:41That's how I find this whole thing.
11:43What?
11:43Keep going, Jeremy.
11:44Keep going.
11:45What?
11:45Let's people see.
11:46Yeah.
11:46What do I show up-
11:47I did get half a point for that.
11:49To set wearing every day.
11:51Your LV custom hoodie.
11:53Shut up.
11:54You have another jacket that I really like, kind of-
11:56Not the Carhartt one.
11:57I-
11:58That one.
11:59I would say the-
12:00Then you have a Henley, kind of, like, white shirt.
12:03Yup.
12:03You got some nice pants, just consistently.
12:06I've never really asked the brand.
12:07I'm not that interested in men's pants.
12:08Okay.
12:08You haven't named it-
12:09You haven't named it yet.
12:10But you seem to wear it often.
12:11You wear your hat.
12:11Very often.
12:12Okay.
12:13A carton of American spirits, I would say you wear-
12:16That I wear proudly.
12:17Proudly.
12:17For sure.
12:18Your key thing.
12:21Yeah, no.
12:22Your necklaces?
12:23No.
12:23No?
12:24My-
12:25The, like, Filson, like, wax duster.
12:28I wear, like-
12:29That jacket.
12:29Almost like every-
12:30Almost every data set, I would think.
12:32That jacket.
12:32Yeah.
12:32I mean, that's not a point, but-
12:34I was so nice to you.
12:37Yeah, I know, but I'm trying.
12:38I can't lose that.
12:40I gotta-
12:40Do I have a ritual to prepare for a scene?
12:43Yeah.
12:44Pissing me the fuck off.
12:45You tap your little feet.
12:47Yeah.
12:48A little sway back and forth.
12:49A little tappy tap.
12:49A little tappy tap.
12:50Sometimes you do the spoon as well.
12:52Absolutely.
12:53That's a point, for sure.
12:54Is there a phrase I say all the time?
12:57What do they want me to say?
12:58Let it rip?
12:58Can you imagine?
13:01In real life?
13:01In real life?
13:03Like-
13:03How do I greet you often?
13:05Boy.
13:06Yeah, but-
13:08A different thing.
13:10I feel like I get-
13:11Whatever.
13:12This whole thing is rigged.
13:13Like this damn country.
13:15The answer is-
13:15The answer is-
13:16What's up, dawg?
13:17Often, I've said to you in mornings-
13:19Let's move on.
13:20Okay, very good.
13:21Would I ever get one of Carmi's tattoos?
13:27It would have to be, like, almost imperceptible.
13:29Even though you have a lot.
13:30I think you might be, like, open to it.
13:31But I think probably not at this point.
13:33Also because cover-up is so annoying.
13:35She hit it on every-
13:36You got my real-time thought process.
13:39You were in there.
13:40That's a point, for sure.
13:42If there were more psychological questions like this,
13:45then absolutely I could have done it.
13:46I could have swept the fucking board.
13:49You did good.
13:49Would you guys ever get a tattoo to commemorate the bear?
13:52I'd be open to that.
13:54I'd be open to getting a tattoo with you.
13:56But I don't think it could be bear, like-
13:59Like, it could be so overt.
14:01We're not gonna get, like, a tomato can.
14:02No.
14:03Or a knife.
14:04We should both get Evan's face.
14:07Just pop right on my thigh.
14:08Evan's face on the thigh is pretty tight.
14:10As I thought about it, it became really serious to me.
14:13I think if it was, like, a really tight-
14:14Like, all mine are kinda tiny.
14:17Let's do it.
14:17I could slot it right in.
14:18You could do that.
14:19I don't think he got ten.
14:21I think he got eight.
14:22I just wanna say that.
14:23No, I-
14:23According to my tally.
14:24I at least got nine.
14:25I don't know how much I got.
14:27I got this much.
14:28And I got this much.
14:30Stop, you smug little bastard.
14:32Here we go.
14:33In my tally, he got eight.
14:35I think I got nine.
14:37I think the truth is-
14:38Do you think it's a tie?
14:39It might have been a nine tiebreaker.
14:41Tiebreaker.
14:42I gotta go.
14:44Good game.
14:45I hate this shit.
14:46Did I learn anything about Jeremy?
14:47Petty, petty man.
14:49I learned that genuinely we are both actually competitive.
14:50Yeah.
14:51I feel like we know each other well.
14:52In some ways.
14:53Yeah, yeah.
14:53I think we know each other-
14:54I feel like we understand each other.
14:55It's that.
14:56I think I, like, I know your spirit.
14:58Yes.
14:58Probably more than I know the spirits of people that I've known for even longer.
15:02Right.
15:03But the trivia material facts.
15:06Yeah.
15:07We're loose on.
15:07And I think this is-
15:09That's cool.
15:09I think it's great.
15:11Okay.
15:11Well.
15:12Thanks GQ.
15:13Thanks I guess.
15:15For nothing.
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