The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri Says Carmy, Sydney Romance Needs to Wait

Not but chef. Ayo Edebiri has a message for The Bear followers hoping to see a Carmy and Sydney romance — you have to to attend.

“They received plenty of trauma on each side. Like if even that [was explored] — I don’t suppose that window is open,” Edebiri, 27, solely instructed Us Weekly throughout an interview on the 2023 Golden Globes on Tuesday, January 10. “But when it have been, there would have to be like two seasons the place it’s simply them doing remedy individually earlier than that will even be an possibility.”

Ayo Edebiri Explains Why 'The Bear' Needs to Wait At Least 2 Seasons Before Exploring a Carmy and Sydney Romance

Ayo Edebiri
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In response to the actress, The Bear didn’t initially plan to discover a romantic story line between the coworkers.

“I believe after we have been making it, neither of us [me nor Jeremy Allen White] have been excited about that,” she shared with Us. “It did really feel very nice to get to do one thing that felt completely different. There aren’t that many platonic male [and] feminine relationships.”

The critically-acclaimed collection, which premiered in June 2022, explores proficient chef Carmy (White) as he returns to Chicago to run his older brother Mikey’s (Jon Bernthal) restaurant following his dying. Season 1 explored Carmy’s makes an attempt to assist hold the sandwich store afloat whereas coping with his personal grief over his brother’s suicide.

One month after the present’s premiere, White, 31, hinted on the obstacles the pair nonetheless must face. “You’ve nonetheless received this pressure, with Carmy and Sydney, and this energy stability that they’re nonetheless gonna be fighting. Sure, he apologized, form of. Sure, she kind of accepted it. Sure, they each have a shared ardour for this factor,” the Shameless alum instructed Collider in July 2022. “However there’s actually loads for them to type out with each other nonetheless left.”

Ayo Edebiri Explains Why 'The Bear' Needs to Wait At Least 2 Seasons Before Exploring a Carmy and Sydney Romance

Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu and Jeremy Allen White as Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto in ‘The Bear.’
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Creator Christopher Storer additionally addressed whether or not Carmy and Sydney would take their relationship to the subsequent stage sooner or later.

“We needed to make one thing that was about friendship and a partnership,” he instructed Selection earlier this month. “It truly is so humorous that that is without doubt one of the issues that folks took away — of all of the heavy s—t that’s happening within the present! It was attention-grabbing as a result of Ayo and Jeremy, since they’re our mates and are such fantastic individuals, I believe there may be this charisma that comes off each of them.”

He added: “From the start, it was like, ‘We should always simply present individuals being actually good at their jobs and pushing one another.’ Selfishly, I hadn’t seen a present with out a romantic plot and was like, ‘That might be form of cool and attention-grabbing.’”

Because the forged prepares to movie season 2, Edebiri stated she was excited to see the place the present would go from right here. “We’re going again subsequent month to [film] it,” she teased to Us on Tuesday. “Chris hasn’t actually instructed us an excessive amount of but. … I belief the writers a lot. I actually, actually do. So, I’ve no enter till we get on set after which I’m like, ‘I’ve 700 opinions.’”

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi