A Complete Guide to the Star-Studded Cameos in Hulu’s ‘The Bear’: From Jamie Lee Curtis to Jon Bernthal

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Hulu’s series The Bear proved there’s no such thing as too many chefs in the kitchen after two seasons of star-studded cameos.The show, which debuted in June 2022, explores the food industry through the lens of a talented chef named Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), who returns to Chicago to run his older brother Mikey’s (Jon Bernthal) restaurant following his death.Season 1 focused on Carmy’s attempts to help the sandwich shop thrive as he deals with his own grief.

The initial episodes served as a jumping off point to the show’s second season — which followed Carmy, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) and other employees at The Beef as they opened up their new restaurant on a very tight deadline.In the middle of season 2, The Bear pivoted to a flashback Christmas episode that allowed the audience to see the unstable dynamics between various Berzatto family members such as Carmy, Natalie and Mikey’s mother, Donna Berzatto, who was played by Jamie Lee Curtis.The Halloween star took to social media in June 2023 to open up up about bringing the complicated character to life.“The secrets is out.

We all have them. Every family. Every human being. The center of the brilliant masterpiece that is commonly referred to as @thebearfx is the story of a family secrets and the concentric circles of rage and trauma and grief and humor that revolve around, Carmen, Sugar, and Michael Berzatto,” Curtis captioned an Instagram post at the time. “When I saw the first episode of the first show, last summer and Sugar asks Carmen if he had spoken to their mother, in that second I knew that I would play her.

Don’t ask me how. I just knew.”Curtis referred to Donna as the “role of a lifetime” after joining the cast. “There’s not a person alive who won’t relate to what