‘The Bear’ Star Ayo Edebiri on the High Expectations for Season 2: ‘I’m Trying Not to Feel Anything’

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor While “The Bear” captures the grittiness and intensity of working in a restaurant kitchen, it doesn’t shy away from showcasing the dreamy stares of Jeremy Allen White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. “They both have insane eyes,” Ayo Edebiri, who plays Sydney on the hit FX series, told me Wednesday at a tastemaker screening of Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming comedy “Theater Camp.” “Ebon once told me, ‘I could turn them on.’ And I’m like, ‘No, you can’t.’ And he was like, ‘I know how to face the light in a certain way that will turn them on’.

I was like, ‘You literally sound insane,’ but then he turned them on in front of me. It was the craziest thing I had ever witnessed.” With Season 2 now streaming on Hulu, the pressure is on for “The Bear” team to live up to its first go-around.

But don’t tell that to Edebiri. “I’m really trying not to feel anything,” she said. “It’s done so there’s really nothing I can do.

And I think for the first season, we weren’t making it with people’s expectations. And that’s just what we we tried to do now.