Don't expect Carmy and Sydney to cook up a romance on season two of The Bear
While stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri undeniably have chemistry on The Bear, the show's team confirms that it's strictly platonic
With one glimpse of a tattooed forearm, Jeremy Allen White’s tortured chef Carmy Berzatto became a sex symbol of the summer when The Bear dropped on Hulu last June. Naturally, many viewers were thinking that he might strike up a relationship with the ambitious Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), who hopes to make her own impression on the Berzatto family’s sandwich shop. However, in a new conversation with Variety, the team behind the acclaimed series says that romance isn’t anything The Bear plans to serve up.
“We wanted to make something that was about friendship and a partnership,” describes creator and co-showrunner Chris Storer. “It really is so funny that that is one of the things that people took away—of all the heavy shit that’s going on in the show! It was interesting because Ayo and Jeremy, since they are our friends and are such wonderful people, I think there is this charisma that comes off both of them… From the beginning, it was like, we should just show people being really good at their jobs and pushing each other. Selfishly, I hadn’t seen a show without a romantic plot and was like, that could be kind of cool and interesting.”