Ebon Moss-Bachrach & Ayo Edibiri Red Carpet Interview 2024 Emmy Awards
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00:00So clean-shaven. Yeah. How often does that happen? Smooth. Smooth as a hot dog.
00:07As a lady hot dog. Lady hot dog. He gets best lady hot dog at the end.
00:14Yeah, I got a close shave today. I even cut myself. Got a couple cuts. Yeah, good.
00:18Yeah, you know, I've been clean-shaven these days. I'm doing a lot of motion capture on this film.
00:26And so for maximum data facial capture, I got to be clean-shaven.
00:33Have you seen yourself as a thing yet?
00:36I've seen kind of crude renderings of it, but nothing nearly what it's going to look like.
00:42They've got so many different vendors, amazing animators working on it.
00:46Literally hundreds of people working on it.
00:48And so we've been shooting for about six weeks, and I haven't been able to see anything yet.
00:53I don't know exactly what the lead time is. I don't know. I'm very excited to see something.
00:58What's it like seeing the rest of the cast and their superhero get-ups?
01:04It's exciting. Yeah, they're beautiful. My cast is amazing.
01:08Who's the most beautiful?
01:10Oh, my God. I mean, you got Joseph Quinn, you got Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal.
01:14I mean, this is a great-looking crowd. No, but there's beautiful hearts, man.
01:19It's just a pleasure, pleasure. Beautiful on the inside.
01:21Well, it's a pleasure working with these guys. I miss them already.
01:23I was with them yesterday. I was shooting yesterday.
01:25Where are you shooting?
01:26We're shooting in London. I worked yesterday, hopped on the plane, came over here.
01:30Did they send you off with, like, good luck? Did they give you a cake, a bottle of champagne?
01:36There was a bunch of flowers and a bottle of champagne in my hotel room when I walked in for my Fantastic Four family.
01:42So, yeah, how about you?
01:43Fantastic flowers.
01:45Nice.
01:46You said it. Yeah, no, that's really kind.
01:49Sweet card, teared up a little bit.
01:51Did you? Did you? Did you get teary-eyed?
01:53Yeah, I did. Yeah.
01:55Why? What got you teary-eyed?
01:57I don't know. That kind of level of, I don't know, caring and conscious. I don't know.
02:01It was just, it was a surprise, and I don't know.
02:04I love them. We've been working so hard together. We're so close, you know.
02:07So I get even going away for a second, a little separation anxiety.
02:10Now, do you get to do the action sequences since you're in the most?
02:14No, no, no. I do everything, but it's just, you know, it's my face and everything.
02:18But it's just a lot of people, you know.
02:21I'm about, I don't know, 1,200 pounds.
02:25Yeah, this is, this is, this is, this is.
02:28What do you want?
02:29Oh, come on.
02:31Has he shown you, has he shown you photos from the set of Fantastic Four?
02:35I'm on set, like, often.
02:38I play one of the rocks.
02:40I play one of the rocks in the suit.
02:42Where are you a rock in that?
02:44He plays this rock. There's one rock right over here.
02:46Yeah, for the fans, for the eagle-eyed viewers.
02:49Big question.
02:51The Bear is a comedy.
02:53How often are you laughing when you're reading the script?
02:57Is it a funny script?
02:59I think the scripts are really funny, yeah.
03:01Yeah, I think they're funny.
03:03I, sorry, that made me start to think about the process of what I do when I read.
03:07And I was like, how often do I emote out loud?
03:10But I laugh a lot internally.
03:12Yes, and then also, like, on set, yeah.
03:15What do you say to people who say, it's a drama, it's not a comedy?
03:18I mean, I think, I don't really say anything.
03:21I think those are, like, conversations for other people to have.
03:24And our conversation is in the work.
03:28But I laugh, and I think people laugh.
03:30Yeah, I think the show is really funny.
03:32I don't know, comedy, drama, I mean, who cares, man, really?
03:36It's like, I think people care.
03:38And I think it is an important conversation to have.
03:40But I think it's like, I don't know, I think the show is funny.
03:43And I also think it's like, the work is good.
03:45And we're celebrating a lot of really amazing shows.
03:48So I'm not really interested in discourse that's, like, insulting to anyone, really.
03:52It's kind of me.
03:54Are you directing more episodes?
03:56Hopefully, I would love to.
03:58I had a really great time directing.
04:00And a feature?
04:01That would be nice.
04:02Something in the works?
04:04Sure, if you're financing, let's go.
04:08Tell me what it's like hearing action from her.
04:13I mean, for me, the experience of working with Aya as a director,
04:18as opposed to a scene partner, was very seamless.
04:21Because it's a very collaborative set as it is.
04:23She's a generous director.
04:24And it was just like, it just felt easy.
04:26It felt kind of the same to me.
04:29Yeah.
04:30You know?
04:31I found Eben to be really difficult.
04:33No, it was great.
04:34I think it was our third season.
04:38And so I think I also had the benefit of knowing how he works as an actor.
04:43And also, like, our crew.
04:45Knowing them in a way and being able to translate that.
04:48Yeah, but it was a blast.
04:49I really, really enjoyed it.
04:50And I felt truly so lucky to get to direct these actors.
04:55And it gave me such an appreciation of how lucky I am when I work with them.
05:00Because, yeah, you're just amazing.
05:03Has Jeremy sent you a recorded voice note of him singing as Bruce Springsteen?
05:08Well, I also am on that set as well.
05:10Yeah.
05:11So, yeah.
05:12So I don't need it.