‘The Bear’ Star Jeremy Allen White On Working On The Line And Finding The Right Recipe For The Kitchen Industry
deadline.comIn FX’s breakout series The Bear, Jeremy Allen White plays Carmy Berzatto, a prodigious young chef who returns home to Chicago to assume control of his dead brother’s sandwich shop.
It’s the role of a lifetime for White, who’s already enjoyed great success on the small screen — first as a soldier in Homecoming, and as the brainy Lip Gallagher on Shameless.
Here, the Brooklyn native talks about the importance of keeping things real over a hot stove. DEADLINE: When you were first approached about the show, did creator Christopher Storer describe it as a workplace comedy? JEREMY ALLEN WHITE: No.
Chris told me about Carmy and the idea of this young man coming home and trying to pick up the pieces of a life he’s been far away from for a long time.
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