Jeremy Allen White Admits It’s ‘Hard To Say Goodbye’ To The Bear After Final Season

Last week, fans said goodbye to Carmy, Syd and the rest of The Bear’s central family, as Disney+ dropped the final season of the culinary drama in one go.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about The Bear’s ending, its lead, Jeremy Allen White, admitted it was “hard to say goodbye” to the show that propelled him to international stardom, despite knowing it was coming to an end for two years beforehand.

“We’re really lucky in that we had a build-up [to the conclusion],” the Emmy winner said. “I knew for about two years when it was going to end and how it was going to end, so there was a lot of time to prepare.”

He continued: “I’m going to miss these people so much, I’m going to miss the set. The Bear set is so specific – it’s incredibly detail-oriented and exacting, but also flexible and freeing. It’s a hard thing to say goodbye to anything you love.”

On the red carpet of the series finale, he told People how difficult it was to make the last episodes of the Emmy-winning show.

“It was hard,” he recalled. “I mean, it was hard to read. It was hard to shoot. It all makes sense.

“To me, this season, the end of the show is like – for Carmy at least – is about this sort of, like, ultimate surrender and acceptance of, kind of, like, an honesty with himself. So that all makes sense to me.”

Meanwhile, Jeremy has admitted that the very first season of The Bear will forever hold a “special” place in his heart.

“There were no expectations for the show, which was wonderful. We felt like we were really in our own world,” he said in his Hollywood Reporter interview. “We could feel it was special, but it felt like it was still ours. Then, going to the Emmys and being with everybody a year and a half later for season one, that night when the show won, I won and Ayo [Edebiri] won. It was unreal.”

Ayo Edebiri, who plays chef Syd in the series, said in the same piece that her favourite memory came when the series felt “bigger than any of us” and was renewed for a second series.

She explained that she was in New York with Jeremy on the set of a photoshoot when she heard the news of the renewal.

“I remember we were both intermittently checking our phones and being like, ‘Something is happening. What’s going on?’ It felt like people were being like, ‘Wait, no, this is really cool’,” she said.

The final season of The Bear picks up the morning that Carmy’s friends and family discover he has quit the food industry and left the restaurant to them.

Overall, the new run of episodes were met with critical acclaim, with The Telegraph praising it as a “classic recipe done very, very well”.

All five seasons of The Bear are now streaming on Disney+.