Jeremy Allen White presents Ayo Edebira with his flowers for her directorial debut at Bear.
on Bear season 3 premiere on Tuesday, June 25, the actor — who plays Carmie Berzatto on the hit FX series — opened up about what it was like watching his costar yell “action” for the first time.
“It was the best,” White recalled Diversity. – I didn’t act on her first day, I was on the set just as if I was hanging out.
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(L) Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri on ‘The Bear’.
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Although Edebiri—who plays his sous chef Sydney Adamu—couldn’t give him official guidelines for the scenes he was involved in, Shameless The alum, 33, had nothing but praise for a job well done.
“I can say she did a wonderful job. She was very confident, I mean, everyone knows how smart she is,” he continued. “She’s a beautiful actress and a very intuitive actress. And I think she’s also a very beautiful and intuitive director.”
Edebiri also told Deadline that she had an emotional reaction to directing her first episode.
Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri ruled out romance between their characters on Bear
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Jeremy Allen White as Carmen “Car,y” Berzatto and Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu in ‘Bear’ Season 2.
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“I cried. It was very beautifully written,” she said of the first reading of the script. “I was so touched by that and I really touched that Chris [Storer] had in mind to direct it.”
“I could see it as soon as I read it,” she added.
From BearDebuting on FX in 2022, White and Edebiri’s friendship developed both on and off screen. In her vanity fair The June 2024 cover story, White told the publication that he has “tremendous respect” for her as both a person and an artist.
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“We really enjoy each other’s lives, on and off camera,” White said of the actress. “I hope that kind of thing shines through on camera between Carm and Syd.”
He added: “Syd can always… I don’t know, deliver something different Carmy, and he’s usually right. And I think Ayo is usually right too.”
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3rd season Bear premiering June 27 on FX and Hulu.
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