Matty Matheson and Jamie Lee Curtis WireImage (2)
The Bear’s Matty Matheson is opening up about his very first encounter with “big mama” Jamie Lee Curtis just before her cameo on the sequence.
“It’s nuts,” Matheson, 42, advised Selection in an interview revealed on Thursday, June 27. “The 1st time I observed Jamie was at the Golden Globes or something, right before she arrived on the next period. We were in the ballroom, and there weren’t a ton of people in there.”
Matheson mentioned he asked The Bear sequence creator Christopher Storer, “Can I just go up and say good day to her?”
“And he was like, ‘For certain! Go say what’s up!’” Matheson recalled.
He additional, “As I was going for walks up to her, she pointed at me and was like, ‘I know who the f—k you are! Get above right here!’”
Matty Matheson as Neil Fak. Fx
The duo “just strike it off” from the star, with Matheson gushing that Curtis, 65, is “so sweet.”
“She’s our significant mama,” he included. “She hangs with us the whole time, even when she’s not on screen. Being all around another person like that, a true icon, is astounding. Trading Places is my family’s motion picture. We loved that film rising up. Under no circumstances in a million years — and now we’re good friends! We’re texting! She seriously is an amazing individual.”
Matheson has been on The Bear given that season 1, which premiered in 2022, taking part in the position of Neil Fak whilst also serving as a culinary marketing consultant and producer on the demonstrate.
Curtis, for her aspect, appeared on the 2nd period of the Fx Authentic series as Donna, the Berzatto family matriarch. She briefly returned in year 3, which debuted on Wednesday, June 26.
Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna. Chuck Hodes/Fx
Previous thirty day period, Curtis advised The Hollywood Reporter that “none of us reported a phrase to anyone” about her cameo, noting that the producers “changed the name on the buses, the vans — the call sheets didn’t have our names on them.”
She included, “We flew to Chicago. There was no link back again to the demonstrate. There was no word ‘Bear’ anyplace near me. I stayed at a lodge, the resort did not know who was having to pay for my area. It was a top secret until the day it dropped.”
The sequence stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, a chef who requires over his family’s Italian beef sandwich store in Chicago. Winning 10 Primetime Emmy Awards in its 1st year, the clearly show has also earned 4 Golden Globes, getting house Greatest Tv Collection — Musical or Comedy earlier this year.
