Matty Matheson on ‘The Bear’ Season 3, That ‘Bigger Than Life’ Guest Star and His Hilarious First Encounter With Jamie Lee Curtis

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Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER WARNING: This interview contains spoilers for “The Bear,” including a surprise cameo.

Matty Matheson has spent his career running restaurants. Now, he’s focused on a fictional one. With FX’s “The Bear,” the Toronto-based celebrity chef and restaurateur added actor to his resume, playing the loud, lovable and sometimes immature handyman Neil Fak in addition to his role as a culinary consultant and producer on the show.

Matheson’s role behind the scenes of the Emmy-winning kitchen dramedy expanded from co-producer in Season 1 to executive producer for the next two seasons.

And so too did his role in front of the camera. Together with Ricky Staffieri, who plays Neil’s brother Ted, Matheson has proudly shouldered the comic relief of “The Bear,” a responsibility he doesn’t take lightly. “I think I was able to create more of a character out of Fak,” Matheson tells Variety, adding that series creator Christopher Storer “loves throwing me in there.” “We’d be riffing on stuff, and then a day or two later there would be a couple extra scenes with Fak and Ted,” Matheson says. “We kind of turned into this softness and relief from everything else that’s going on in the show.” Before 10 new episodes of “The Bear” dropped on Hulu June 26, Matheson spoke with Variety to discuss Season 3, adding a certain pro wrestler turned actor to the Fak family and why restaurants (real or fake) are “miracles.” This week must be crazy for you.