-Jeremy Allen White. Jeremy, welcome to the show.
-Thank you. -Thanks for being here.
-Thank you for having me. -Thank you for coming.
You're not the first family member
to be in "The Tonight Show" world.
To be at "The Tonight Show."
-That's right. Yeah.
I think you always want your children to outshine you.
I just didn't know it was gonna happen this early.
My 3-year-old daughter, Ezer, came here, what,
like two months ago, six weeks ago or something like that
and got to hang out with you.
-Dakota Johnson is her godmother?
-Yeah, Dakota's her godmother.
And she's a really big fan of Angel Moon, which is this...
-Chris Martin. -Puppet in Coldplay's new album.
-They have like a muppet band called The Weirdos.
-The Weirdos. Yeah. -And they're all muppets.
-They're all muppets. -And they're from space.
-They were on the show. It wasn't even Chris, really.
-No, they were booked on the show, yeah.
And then this beautiful little baby was walking around
with Dakota, and she was like, "Angel Moon, Angel Moon."
She was, like, so cute. And she was like -- I go, "Oh, my gosh."
Like, no one could stop looking at this kid.
-Yeah. -Somebody took a picture of me
doing our exchange, I want to say.
-Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. -Look at that hair.
-I did not know it was your baby.
That's Adam Sandler's Hawaiian shirt.
-Oh, nice. [ Laughter ]
Man, she's met Adam Sandler, too.
She's really like -- [ Laughter ]
-She had a great -- -Really shining, man.
-She's welcome back whenever. -Cool.
-I'm happy that you're here, because man, oh, man, did I hear
more about this show than anything on Earth.
"The Bear." -"The Bear."
-Everyone -- It's almost like -- I don't know if the Internet was
finding me or thinking that I would be really into it.
But everybody's like, "You got to watch 'The Bear.'
It's the must-see show." I'm like, "I get it.
'The Bear.' What is it about? Is it about a bear?
What is going on?"
I had no clue what it's about.
It's like, no, it's about a restaurant in Chicago.
-Yes. -I go, "Okay.
I still have nothing to do with Chicago."
I like food. Fine. -Yeah, food.
It sounds like you'll like it. Yeah.
-It doesn't. Why? [ Laughter ]
I have no connection.
I love it. -You love it?
-The Internet was right. -Oh, good.
-Everyone who told me was right.
It's like 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
-It's doing really well, man. -You crush it.
How do we explain it to everyone?
It's very fast. I will say, it moves fast.
You could probably binge this in a weekend.
-Yeah, yeah. It's like 4 1/2 hours.
It's eight episodes.
And I think we were trying to capture, like, the pace
of a kitchen, which is really, really intense.
And the show is about a young chef, Carmen Berzatto,
coming home to Chicago after working in these, like,
really intense kitchen environments all over the world.
And he comes home, and he kind of inherits his family's
sandwich shop after his brother passes away.
So he comes back, and he's -- he's trying to kind of, like,
bring this shop to a different sort of glory.
And he's also dealing with the death of his brother.
-Yeah. People are loving, also,
the attention to detail in this show.
And I will say, that right there -- anyone who -- Yeah.
-That's a deli, is what they call it, right there.
-If you drink out of that plastic deli thing --
That's what chefs drink out of. -You're the real deal.
-Did you do your homework for that?
Like, how did you realize that? -Yeah.
So, we did a lot of work.
I spent a lot of time in kitchens.
The kitchen I spent the most time at was a restaurant
in L.A. called Pasjoli.
It's in Santa Monica. Chef Dave Beran is chef there.
He's really incredible. They have a star --
a Michelin star, which is kind of like
the biggest deal in the restaurant world.
-Did people know who you are at the time,
before "The Bear" came out?
-So, we were all in masks. I was in the kitchen.
It's an open kitchen.
So it was kind of fine.
And I liked that I could be there, you know.
Everybody was like, "This is just some actor."
And they didn't really give it any thought.
The show hadn't come out. They didn't know anything
about the show, so I felt very,
like, you know, safe there.
-Yeah. -But yeah, yeah.
We did all our homework. And we had these wonderful chefs.
Matty Matheson, who's a really incredible chef,
Courtney Storer, who's the showrunner's sister, was a chef
at this place Jon & Vinny's in L.A.
So that authenticity that came from these guys.
-I've had it. -Yeah, that place is great.
-Yeah. So good.
-I went to a place called Mr. Beef,
I want to say, in Chicago.
-Yeah. That's where we shoot.
-I was there. I'm in that place. -Oh, my God.
Is your face up on the wall? -I think my face is on the wall.
-Your face is probably on the wall.
-I think I am on the wall. -Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
-Oh, I hope I don't take you out of character
next time you're doing this. -I know.
I'm just going to make eye contact with you as I'm --
-You're like, "Look, they let any moron in this place."
You throw a drink at the picture and have it splash off me.
But I'd love to make a cameo. -Sweet.
-Yeah. I want to show everyone a clip of "The Bear."
Check this out.
-Time to try the new sandwiches.
Behind. Order!
Marcus, rolls, please, Chef.
[Bleep] Again.
That's crumbly. It's too dense.
-Doing it by hand. -Yo.
-It's the mixer. -It's not the mixer, alright?
It's crumbly. The oven's too dry.
You need to fill a baking sheet with water,
put it on the oven floor, throw in another batch, okay?
-Don't tell me how to do my job. -Just do it.
Yo! Somebody come try this, cousin.
-Yeah, right!
-That was done perfect. -There you go, Chef.
Chef.
What's going on? What do you think?
-It's redundant and white, just like you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Redundant and white, just like -- yes, chef!
Jeremy Allen White.
Season one of "The Bear" is streaming right now on Hulu.
We'll be right back with a performance from Angel Olsen.
Stick around.