Like The Bear’s many followers, actor Liza Colón-Zayas doesn’t know what’s coming down the road for the hit comedy-drama. FX hasn’t introduced a Season 5 renewal, that means it’s doable the just-released Season 4 is the top of the present. And like followers, Colón-Zayas isn’t able to say goodbye.
“I don’t know. I actually don’t,” the Emmy winner mentioned in a brand new Selection, reflecting on whether or not the Season 4 finale, “Goodbye,” marks the top of the restaurant The Bear or the present The Bear. “We don’t know. We don’t know the change in technique — with Carmy [Jeremy Allen White] abandoning the necessity to pull off chaos, and sticking with consistency — how that will have affected phrase of mouth, whoever’s coming in. Perhaps that’s the Hail Mary. I actually don’t know. Is there any Hail Mary that may come by way of now that that clock has reached zero? I don’t know. I don’t need it to finish.”
If “Goodbye” had been the top, although, Colón-Zayas thinks Tina, her line prepare dinner character, could be devastated. “As a result of this isn’t nearly a job,” she advised the journal. “When she walked into The Beef in ‘Napkins,’ it was nearly a job and taking any job. However I don’t suppose that is about simply this job. Now that is a lot greater than that. This present may be very a lot about grieving and loss, and likewise shifting ahead. So I feel she’ll land on her toes. However it’s gonna be arduous personally.”
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And Colón-Zayas mentioned she has “already cried too many instances” considering the top of The Bear. “I really like my job,” she added. “I don’t need it to finish. However I what I really like and respect about it’s sustaining the reality and the integrity and maybe the fact that greater, higher eating places haven’t been capable of stand up to the entire challenges of you understand, rising costs, COVID, all of these items.”
Each FX and The Bear creator Christopher Storer have been curiously mum about the way forward for a TV present that has racked up a lot acclaim and so many awards, together with a 2024 Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence Emmy trophy for Colón-Zayas.
Final 12 months, FX boss John Landgraf advised Selection that The Bear’s future hinges on Storer. “It’s about, how rather more story does he have to inform?” the community exec mentioned. “I imply, clearly, I’m hoping he has a couple of extra season of story to inform. However to not the extent that if there was one nice season or three mediocre ones, I’d moderately have one nice one. You simply must comply with the inventive.”
The Bear, Seasons 1–4, Now Streaming, Hulu