How Ayo Edebiri Stepped into Directing, at the Premiere of 'The Bear' Season Three

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00:00Hi! What's up, director?

00:03Oh, nothing much. You know, chillin'.

00:05What was it like saying action for the first time on the set of The Bear?

00:10Cool.

00:12Did you rehearse?

00:13No. No, you just do it.

00:16How does that conversation happen? Do you go to them and say, I want to direct?

00:20It happened kind of naturally. I've known Chris since I was like 21 or 22.

00:24And I am a writer, and I don't have as many credits these past few months as I have before,

00:32but we met because of TV writing, and he was like, you are a director, you're a producer,

00:38and kind of as I've grown, he's sort of continued to, I don't know, support me.

00:44And so, yeah, season two I was just shadowing pretty much every day,

00:47and then that kind of led to season three.

00:50Now, when you're directing, your castmates have been your castmates.

00:54You know, you're sort of in that boss position.

00:56Was there anything that was uncomfortable? Like, were you like, oh, do that again?

01:00No, well, no, because, you know, I'll just say, I'll shout out the DGA.

01:04They have a class for first-time TV directors, and I got to take that class.

01:08And a lot of that class is comprised of people who have also worked in the industry,

01:13but they haven't directed before.

01:15And so we got to have amazing conversations from different vantage points,

01:19writers, editors, ADs, other actors, on, you know, what it's like being directed,

01:25you know, your experiences with directors.

01:27And I think a lot of that conversation, like, really informed how I got to be,

01:32during prep and on set, yeah.

01:34I didn't realize they have a class for it.

01:36The DGA rules. I love my guild.

01:39I love all my unions, but I'm shouting out the guild at this very moment.