The only sentence you might hear more than “yes, chef!” In season 3 of “The Bear” of FX, “Hee!” In episode 8, “Ice Chips”, when Natalie “Sugar” by Abby Elliott Berzatto enters work while being stuck in traffic, she has no choice but to reach out to her semi-elaborated mother, Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis), who asks her daughter to breathe (“Hee!”) With contractions.
Delocating the kitchen under pressure from the series, the zero episode on two fully drawn characters trying to adapt to their differences. The step of an emotionally tense and funny deunt is a showcase for Elliott, the veterinarian “Saturday Night Live” and “Odd Mom Out” which was curiously neglected by the television academy last year.
Experience
“When I was in work with my son, I recorded the contractions because I knew I was going to have this episode. And I wanted to make it as realistic as possible. The cervical check (to measure how a pregnant woman is dilated) is something that you do not really see as often on television or in the film. It is a large part of the work and its excursions. [Jamie Lee] And I made the main song, this 20 -page scene, two or three times. And we have set up several cameras. There was a large and then one on our faces, so we knew which points to strike. And I could always fall back on contractions and physical pain if we lost our way.
Laughing through tears with Jamie Lee Curtis
“When you are face to face with Jamie Lee Curtis, you are really forced to be at the moment. It is a fantastic stage partner, there is no way you can’t just locate yourself. I knew Jamie was in town before we were going to shoot him, and I did not think about receiving things. [Director and co-showrunner] Chris [Storer] wants everything to feel biological. When we make these long episodes of scanning where it is only one socket, after having taken four, it becomes so singing that they do not like it. “”
Like the mother, like her daughter
“”[Sugar] To the resilience and the strength of Donna. And there is also a little bit of loose gun with sugar. She is this character composed and composed in the restaurant (where she is the finance director) because she must be. But there is also a fiery edge in her where she can get angry quite quickly. And I think that she has worked a lot on herself and that she is constantly trying to master this side. And that’s the side that she really can’t stand with Donna. “”
Dream sugar pairs
“I really love sugar and the dynamics of Richie. I would love to dive into it and see something of their youth or have them (collaborate) something for the
restaurant. I love working with Ebon [Moss-Bachrach]. Also, Lionel [Boyce, who plays baker Marcus]. We had a few scenes together, but it would be fun to explore a scenario of sugar and Marcus. »»
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