{"id":98891,"date":"2024-05-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/the-bear-made-ayo-edebiri-a-hollywood-darling-now-shes-making-hollywood-her-playground\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:00:00","slug":"the-bear-made-ayo-edebiri-a-hollywood-darling-now-shes-making-hollywood-her-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/the-bear-made-ayo-edebiri-a-hollywood-darling-now-shes-making-hollywood-her-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Bear\u2019 Made Ayo Edebiri a Hollywood Darling. Now She\u2019s Making Hollywood Her Playground."},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cShe\u2019s one of those very few talents that, in a world where we can\u2019t agree on shit, we can agree that Ayo Edebiri is outrageously talented,\u201d says Green. The two met through their mutual friend Boyce (a.k.a., Marcus). \u201cI remember thinking this is one of the funniest people that I\u2019ve ever met,\u201d Green says of their introduction, during which he, Edebiri, and Boyce went to see No Time to Die<\/em> in New York. Months later, when Green saw Edebiri in The Bear<\/em> screeners Boyce had shared with him, he knew immediately that he wanted to cast her. \u201cI can\u2019t stress this enough: She doesn\u2019t do a bad take,\u201d Green says. \u201cShe could do a wrong take [but] every choice that she makes is cinematic.\u201d The film, which features Juliette Lewis, Amber Midthunder, and John Malkovich, was filmed in New Mexico. (\u201cI loved working with John,\u201d Edebiri says. \u201cI felt like every day was acting school.\u201d) And then there\u2019s Ella McCay,<\/em> a comedy from James L. Brooks featuring Emma Mackey as the lead, with Albert Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rebecca Hall, Woody Harrelson, and Kumail Nanjiani. The Rhode Island set was a reunion of sorts for Edebiri and Curtis, who crossed paths while Curtis guest starred as Carmy\u2019s mom on season two of The Bear.<\/em> Though they didn\u2019t have any scenes together, Edebiri had been on set shadowing the show\u2019s creator, Christopher Storer, as he directed Curtis\u2019s scenes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were sitting on a staircase together talking about loving the work of an actor, but also the work of the director,\u201d Curtis tells me over the phone. Edebiri asked Curtis how she likes to be directed. \u201cI\u2019m not an intellectual, so I don\u2019t need a lot of words; you could just whisper in my ear a color, which would then change my performance,\u201d Curtis had told Edebiri. The next day, between takes of the now infamous dinner table scene in the \u201cFishes\u201d episode, Edebiri whispered \u201cpurple\u201d to Curtis and walked away. \u201cWhat purple meant was \u2018wound,\u2019\u2009\u201d Curtis says, \u201cthat color that a wound turns. That was a very intimate moment between she and I\u2014I believe that\u2019s the take they used in the show. It was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Curtis, Edebiri saw the type of actor she\u2019d like to become, a veteran still eager to do the work. \u201cThey\u2019re not settled and they\u2019re not bored,\u201d she says. \u201cThat makes me feel very heartened because I hope that when I am at that stage of my life, if I\u2019m so lucky to have that, that I still am searching and questioning and excited.\u201d<\/p>\n