The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach Says He Gets Tired of Fans Always Calling Him 'Cousin': 'Don’t Have Much for You'

Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach is getting a little tired of the fan attention.

In an interview with The Guardian on June 19, the 47-year-old actor opened up about his interactions with fans following the success of the hit FX drama on Hulu, in which he plays Richard “Richie” Jerimovich — affectionately known as “The Cousin.”

Looking back on his career, in which he starred in series like Girls, Andorraand Punishershared that he considers himself “pretty successful,” but notes that he “never had anything like it Bear.”

Moss-Bachrach went on to share his experience with fans, saying, “I was on top of a small mountain outside of Kyoto and a Korean couple came up to me and said how much they loved the series.”

Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

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“I get a lot of comments. People yelling ‘Cousin!’ on me all day,” he continued. “Sometimes, you know, you’re just not having a good day. And it’s like, ‘I’m sorry, man, I don’t have much for you.'”

During the interview, the actor also spoke about his co-star Jeremy Allen White’s rise to fame and stated that he is not jealous of the attention he is getting for his looks.

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“I mean, I’m not even sure if I can say I’m happy for him. Because he thinks it’s all pretty funny. So, no, I try to support him. And I actually try to protect him when the fans get really excited,” he said.

This year, Moss-Bachrach won his first Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance in the series about female sandwich shop workers in Chicago.

He told the newspaper that the awards were “one of the happiest nights of my life”, but added that he was also “stressed”.

“… because then we come back to do a third season and win a bunch of awards, you start to feel like, ‘Oh, f—’. I mean, then you really don’t want to be found out as a fraud, and then there’s pressure,” he explained is an actor.

Jeremy Allen White (left), Lionel Boyce (centre) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in ‘The Bear’.

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Although Moss-Bachrach expressed mixed feelings, he stated that, overall, he appreciated the show’s success.

“I mean, I wasn’t walking around with my head in my hands or anything like that. But like any job, at a certain point it becomes routine. I’ve been an actor for about 25 years and the reality is that, for most actors and probably most people in the world, you do a job because you have to to feed my family,” he said. “I feel very fortunate at a time where work is very tight in my line of work. I just feel very privileged.”

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richie in ‘The Bear’.

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Everything you need to know Bear Season 3

The third season of Moss-Bachrach’s show will follow Carmy (White), Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) and Richie “as they do what it takes to take The Bear, their beef stand-turned-fine-dining restaurant, to the highest level, all the while giving doing their best just to stay in business,” reads the official synopsis.

“It’s a losing battle every day in the restaurant business,” the description continues. “Carmy is pushing harder than ever and demands excellence from his crew, who do their best to meet his intensity.”

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Bear season 3 premieres Thursday, June 27 on Hulu.

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