The Bear Cast | Explain This | Esquire

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7/26/2024

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00:00Playing a chef on the bear, have you brought any of the cooking techniques into your everyday life?

00:04Everybody's always like asking me if I make the omelette in real life.

00:07You know how many eggs I had to eat just to get that thing right?

00:11Yeah.

00:12Never again.

00:14Hi, I'm Aya Odebrey.

00:15I'm Lionel Boyce.

00:16I'm Liza Clonces.

00:18Esquire has asked us to explain some things.

00:21Gravity, nuclear fission, velocity are none of those things.

00:26So here we go and let's find out what they actually are.

00:29If you could make a cameo on any existing show, which would you choose and why?

00:41I don't know why.

00:42I don't think I'm equipped at all to be on this show, but Hax.

00:45That would be Genie Smart.

00:47I just, yo, I don't know.

00:49I'd probably beat her up though, but no.

00:52What?

00:53What?

00:54No, but you know like Genie Smart, like Hax.

00:57If Tina and Genie Smart had a crossover.

01:01I don't think it's Tina.

01:02I think it's like you as an actor.

01:03Oh no, not me.

01:04Yeah.

01:05Not me.

01:06No, Tina.

01:07Because it was a crossover show.

01:08Yeah, but I think the question is like if you.

01:09Wait.

01:10It's not a crossover show.

01:11No, no.

01:12I kind of like this question better.

01:13If you took your character.

01:14And put it anywhere?

01:15Yeah.

01:16And put it on another show.

01:17That's it.

01:18That's it.

01:19No.

01:20What would you do for Lionel and what would you do for Marcus?

01:21Well, if I did for Lionel, I would put Lionel in the bear and he has a conversation with

01:23Marcus.

01:24Okay.

01:26That's the two craziest answers to one of the most straightforward questions I've ever

01:31heard in my life.

01:33Tina does karaoke in season two.

01:36What are your go-to karaoke songs?

01:38I don't do karaoke for the record.

01:41Um.

01:42Sang it.

01:43But.

01:44Sang it.

01:45Interesting choice.

01:46But.

01:47It's usually anything Motown connected.

01:48Ain't no mountain high enough.

01:49Ain't no valley low enough.

01:50That's my shower song.

01:51My shower song.

01:52My shower go-to.

01:53That was good.

01:54I liked it.

01:55You answered that like a karaoke person.

01:56Like, ah, I don't do it, but I got seven songs.

01:57Literally seven songs in the pocket.

01:58Oh, what?

01:59This old thing?

02:00No, no, no.

02:01You should be the best.

02:02Just substitute karaoke for shower.

02:03Mine's just La Bamba.

02:04Yeah?

02:05Yeah.

02:06I like to open up with something sort of repulsive almost.

02:07So, like, Cape Bush, Wuthering Heights.

02:08Beautiful song, but repulsive karaoke choice.

02:09You know what I mean?

02:10Open up the gate with falsetto.

02:11Creed.

02:12All of that.

02:13I like that.

02:14I like that.

02:15I like that.

02:16I like that.

02:17I like that.

02:18I like that.

02:19I like that.

02:21I like that.

02:22I like that.

02:23I like that.

02:24I like that.

02:25I like that.

02:26I like that.

02:27I like that.

02:28I like that.

02:29I like that.

02:30I like that.

02:31Your lie is hurt.

02:32Indelucidare.

02:33I love that song.

02:34Playing a chef on The Bear, have you brought any of the cooking techniques into your everyday

02:35life?

02:36Not really, except for I'm better at slicing and dicing.

02:40Having knife skills for sure, knife safety for sure, and everybody's always, like, asking

02:46me if I make the omelet in real life.

02:48You know how many eggs I had to eat

02:50just to get that thing right?

02:53Yeah.

02:54Never again.

02:54I learned some supremes for season three

02:58and I was just honestly doing that for a while,

03:00just making these perfect cuts of fruit.

03:03Just eating that and then juicing the other side of it.

03:05It was a great like two weeks of my life, but yeah.

03:09What's the most delicious thing

03:10you've gotten to try on the show?

03:12The chicken piccata that me and Carmen make.

03:15That was like the best thing

03:17because we literally were just making it and eating it

03:19and trying it and seasoning it ourselves

03:22and we kept getting yelled at by our prop master

03:25because she was like, stop eating this, this is a prop.

03:28So I think also the act of theft made it more delicious.

03:31I feel like it was the braised beef, was it?

03:35Yeah, it was the risotto with the short rib

03:38that Maddie and Coco made.

03:39It was for your dish

03:41and I think everyone just kept eating that

03:43in between takes.

03:44Yeah, that piccata crew was like,

03:47you need to eat it.

03:47I feel like that was in the same week too

03:49when you're like, we gotta stop.

03:51That was really good, yeah.

03:52Thoughts on Marcus' spinoff when he starts his own bakery?

03:55I'm gonna pass this to Ayo

03:56because I feel like she has a lot of thoughts on this.

03:58I don't know, I just have one thought.

04:00What is one thought?

04:01Which is that sweet Marcus is a fool.

04:03If he tried to open up a business,

04:06it would shut down in like two days.

04:09It would be one season, 10 episodes,

04:11episode one, he opens and it closes.

04:14The nine episodes, it's just,

04:16it keeps falling and getting worse and worse.

04:18It's that or it's like the entire season

04:19is just him working in his restaurant

04:21and you find out that it's never opened

04:22and he's like delusional and he doesn't work there.

04:25He's just in a random warehouse.

04:27Yeah, yeah.

04:28And then the last episode,

04:28he like floats up to heaven or something, I guess.

04:31I like touched my angel butt.

04:33He's like, what did we learn here?

04:36Ayo, what inspired you to direct an episode,

04:38Bloodlust and Power?

04:39Just kidding.

04:40No, I don't know.

04:42I've known Chris Storver, creator of the show

04:43since I was like 21 or 22 or something.

04:46And he's kind of always been like secretly

04:49Jedi mind mentoring me, I feel like.

04:52And we would talk about directing, watching direct.

04:54And so, yeah, that's kind of the seed of it.

04:57And the most challenging part about it,

05:00I think was like the things

05:01that I thought would be challenging.

05:03Like, I think I had a lot of anxiety beforehand

05:06about things that I hadn't done.

05:08Like I'd never really been in the edit before.

05:10And then, I don't know,

05:12directing I think is just a lot of prep.

05:14So as we actually did the work

05:16and as I stopped getting out of my head

05:18and realized that it is a collaboration,

05:20that made it a lot more fun,

05:23a lot easier, honestly,

05:26to just kind of like let people do their jobs.

05:30What I can't stand about Tina is,

05:34Tina doesn't like peppers on those beef sandwiches.

05:37I can't stand it.

05:38It's like the hardest acting I gotta do

05:40is the peppers on it.

05:41And what do you love most about her?

05:43I love that she's a, you know, she's a mama bear.

05:48And she, you know, she's protective with tough love.

05:51Ayo, have you read Coach K's book?

05:53Do you follow any of the advice in it?

05:55I'm gonna be so real with you.

05:56I tried to read the book and I was like,

05:57this is for people with like real jobs.

05:59Like this is like an actual book.

06:02And I like books that are about like depressed girls.

06:05Like that's what I read.

06:06And this is like a book for like real people

06:08with real jobs.

06:09But I liked like the vibe of it.

06:11But I was just like,

06:12I don't have like the capacity to finish this book.

06:14I like books about depressed women.

06:16Respect.

06:16Yeah.

06:17And depressed men as well.

06:20Shout out to you.

06:22If you could sit down for a meal

06:23with any character besides your own,

06:25who would you choose and why?

06:26I think Sydney,

06:27cause I feel like we'll get along with her

06:29and I mean, the food will be good.

06:32I would say Gary, aka Sweeps.

06:34I just feel like he's like really chill vibe.

06:38He's just like a nice dude.

06:40And Olivia Colman.

06:43Yeah.

06:44Yeah.

06:45Chef Terry.

06:46I gotta start thinking more beforehand.

06:48Wait, also Cicero, aka Uncle Jimmy,

06:51aka Oliver Platt cause he'd like take you

06:54to like a really nice steakhouse

06:55and then you'd pay for the whole thing.

06:57Lana, your Copenhagen episode was filmed on location.

07:00What was your favorite food spot in Copenhagen?

07:02It was so many things I had that I liked.

07:04I liked the chicken sandwich at Poulet.

07:06Yep.

07:07That was good.

07:08Shout out, Martin.

07:09Sanchez.

07:10Yeah, the desserts there are really good.

07:11Like this churro thing with like Negroni ice cream on it.

07:14That was crazy.

07:15And it's not a food spot,

07:17but hanging out at the Tivoli Gardens,

07:19riding some rides.

07:20I have to throw that in there.

07:21Throw it in there.

07:21Yeah.

07:22Let them know.

07:23What is the perfect meal for three people?

07:25I think like wings, right?

07:27Wings and an endless supply of king crab.

07:30Korean fried chicken.

07:31Yeah, see.

07:32And like beer.

07:33Yeah.

07:34Damn.

07:36Ayo, do you remember getting the offer to host SNL?

07:39What surprised you the most

07:40about the week leading up to the show?

07:41Yes, I remember getting the offer

07:43because I was in the booth recording for Inside Out 2

07:47and somebody came in and was like,

07:48oh, people are telling us

07:50that they need to meet you right now.

07:51And I was like, oh, surely my entire family died.

07:54Everybody was raptured and I got left behind.

07:58And so that's why my agency is calling me.

08:00And then they told me, and then I cried.

08:02And then I was like, I guess I'm doing SNL.

08:04I guess I have to like leave.

08:05And they were like, okay, bye.

08:07And then what surprised you the most

08:08about the week leading up to the show

08:10is that I had a job.

08:11I thought that I was gonna be a cute little celebrity

08:14to show up and be like, oh, hi, Rick sketched me.

08:16And I was working and I was pitching

08:18and I was attending meetings.

08:21But it was actually like a blast.

08:22I had the best time.

08:23It was so beautifully stupid, complimentary word.

08:28And fun.

08:29All right, thanks for watching.

08:31Make sure to check out The Bear season three

08:34on Hulu or Disney Plus.

08:37And Disney Plus.

08:39Okay.

08:40Okay.

08:41Okay.

08:42Okay.

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