Hulu’s series The Bear proved there’s no such thing as too many chefs in the kitchen after two seasons of star-studded cameos.

The display, which debuted in June 2022, explores the food industry through the lens of a talented chef named Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), who returns to Chicago to run his older brother Mikey’s (Jon Bernthal) eating place following his dying.

Season 1 interested by Carmy’s makes an attempt to assist the sandwich shop thrive as he offers along with his own grief. The preliminary episodes served as a leaping off point to the show’s second season — which followed Carmy, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) and other employees at The Beef as they opened up their new restaurant on a very tight time limit.

In the heart of season 2, The Bear pivoted to a flashback Christmas episode that allowed the audience to see the unstable dynamics between more than a few Berzatto members of the family similar to Carmy, Natalie and Mikey’s mom, Donna Berzatto, who used to be played through Jamie Lee Curtis.

The Halloween star took to social media in June 2023 to open up up about bringing the complicated character to life.

“The secrets is out. We all have them. Every circle of relatives. Every human being. The heart of the sensible masterpiece that is regularly referred to as @thebearfx is the story of a circle of relatives secrets and techniques and the concentric circles of rage and trauma and grief and humor that revolve around, Carmen, Sugar, and Michael Berzatto,” Curtis captioned an Instagram post at the time. “When I saw the first episode of the first show, ultimate summer time and Sugar asks Carmen if he had spoken to their mom, in that 2d I knew that I would play her. Don’t inquire from me how. I just knew.”

Curtis referred to Donna as the “role of a lifetime” after joining the cast. “There’s not a person alive who won’t relate to what it seems like to be round somebody like Donna Berzatto. I definitely have my own reviews. That’s what makes the display so magnificent,” she persisted. “We can relate and commiserate and rejoice all of our communal survival on this factor called…. life. Thank you Chris @chrisstorer and the ENTIRE BEAR family of ingenious human beings and scene companions for permitting me in to let it rip!”

While Curtis manifested her position on the show, Bernthal’s journey was once very different when it got here to his pivotal look as Mikey. Bernthal joined the cast in season 1 after his former Punisher costar Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays Richie on the series, recommended him.

“They were making an attempt to solid that position Michael for a while. And they asked us, ‘Does any person have any ideas?’ And they asked me and I was like, ‘I don’t think we must ever see him.’ Because while you speak about somebody, and hype them up so much, it’s at all times a letdown,” Moss-Bachrach told Cinema Blend in June 2023. “And then it did occur to me at some point, and I used to be like, ‘Well, I do suppose Jon is such a charismatic and hilarious dude.’ I was like, ‘He in truth could be in point of fact nice.’”

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Moss-Bachrach famous that it was easy to film Richie and Mikey’s moments, adding, “We really revel in working with each and every other. So, he used to be satisfied to come. Even without reading the script he was once like, ‘Yeah, positive. I’ll come I can do it. If we will make it work. We’ll do it.’ It used to be in point of fact cool. It used to be superior.”

Scroll down to see each and every star-studded cameo on The Bear thus far:

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