Culture | TV With The Bear season three landing on Disney+ on June 27, we revisit our 2023 interview with Ebon Moss-Bachrach These days, actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach is welcomed into restaurants all over the world; the serving staff embrace him, kitchens send him plates of food on the house. But it wasn’t always that way. Despite being one of the stars of The Bear — the acclaimed Disney+ drama series set in a Chicago sandwich shop — Moss-Bachrach’s own career as a waiter was short lived.
Five weeks into working at a catering company while at college, he dropped a dish on a popular daytime talk show host. “It fell, exploded and all the salad dressing and everything went all over her dress. She stood up and shrieked and I got fired.
That was it.” The Bear came out of nowhere last summer and became one of the most talked about TV shows of the year. Critics showered it with praise, fans lapped it up and the awards followed.
Last week, it was nominated for 13 Emmys, including Moss-Bachrach for supporting actor. The much anticipated second season arrives in the UK on Wednesday, and from what I’ve seen, it may be even better than the first. The show follows cordon bleu chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), who takes over sandwich joint The Original Beef of Chicagoland following the shock death of his brother.
He wants to make it into a “respectable place of business” but has his work cut out with money problems and the colourful characters on the staff.
