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.
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00:07Binging season three of The Bear right now? Who isn't?
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 Allen White and Abby Elliott, who play Carmi and his sister Natalie,
00:27shared their thoughts on the episode that's a meditative exploration of Carmi's past,
00:31present and future as a chef.
00:33It felt to me like walking around in somebody's
00:36mind and I think it felt very like fresh and new and yeah, just like exciting and it's like
00:46in its structure and style. It just felt different while also being very much at the heart,
00:53like the same as what we do for the show, you know?
00:57Yeah, I think that episode felt like a puzzle piece of like, oh, this has been there
01:02the entire time. How do we not? This was there and this is the story there and now we get to see it.
01:10Evan Moss Bachrach, who plays Richie and Ricky Staffieri,
01:13who plays Theodore Fack, also spoke about the episode.
01:16It's like this beautiful collage origin story that it doesn't really exist on the page very
01:22well. It really is true cinema in the way that it exists on the screen, you know? I can't even,
01:27I don't even remember what the script of it is like. It's so fractured. It's such a like a poem
01:32of a thing. I don't, I mean, watching it, I was, I thought it was the most cinematic
01:38episode we've made. It was like, I thought it was really breathtaking.
01:43Yeah, I remember, I remember it being off the page, very poetic, how I've been saying,
01:47where it is like a table setter into Carmy's life that I think is like the anchor, you know,
01:52for the season in a way. I think that reading that, you can kind of put yourself, I don't know,
01:58I'm speaking for myself, but I, you know, where this journey could go or, you know, where it's
02:03been, you know, for this, for this character, you know, Carmy. I think, yeah.
02:09Yeah, he's such a closed book Carmy that it's, it's nice. It's sort of the first
02:14peak I felt like we got to, to see really what's going on in there.
02:17Plus, Iowa Debery opened up about the apology scene between her character Sidney and Carmy
02:22that'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. There's like,
02:32reminds me of Sidney and Richie's sort of non-apology apology. Like there's,
02:37um, there's a lot of that in the show. I think that communication is definitely a running theme
02:46of the third season. And sometimes that means a lack of it. And like, uh, people who they think
02:52that they're communicating or they're frustrated, but also like the choices they're making aren't
02:56necessarily behooving, uh, actual conversation or productive conversation. Uh, so yeah,
03:03I definitely think it, it, it, it does mean something.
03:06Adebery makes her directorial debut with the show's sixth episode this season.
03:10She also revealed how she approached directing her co-stars.
03:14I'm working with some of the greatest working actors literally ever. Uh, and also our crew,
03:19which is so talented and so hardworking and so collaborative. So I think for me,
03:23it was like, how can I be a vessel for that collaboration and that level of skill and just
03:27allow everybody to do their best? I mean, I think that's some of like the directing that I've
03:33loved is where I feel like it's people who are facilitating everybody else doing their best and
03:38wanting to show up and be their best and work their hardest. And you just have to
03:41create the conditions for that. So 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,
03:50head to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.