In FX’s breakout series The Bear, Jeremy Allen White plays Carmy Berzatto, a prodigious young chef who returns home to Chicago to assume control of his dead brother’s sandwich shop.
It’s the role of a lifetime for White, who’s already enjoyed great success on the small screen — first as a soldier in Homecoming, and as the brainy Lip Gallagher on Shameless.
Here, the Brooklyn native talks about the importance of keeping things real over a hot stove. DEADLINE: When you were first approached about the show, did creator Christopher Storer describe it as a workplace comedy? JEREMY ALLEN WHITE: No.
Chris told me about Carmy and the idea of this young man coming home and trying to pick up the pieces of a life he’s been far away from for a long time.
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