Interview With "The Bear" Star Abby Elliott

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

"The Bear" continues to be one of the most acclaimed shows on television, and the third season is no exception. With the opening of The Bear restaurant, the third season pushed the characters in new directions while also providing further backstory for the Berzattos. One such character was Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto, whose episode "Ice Chips" was one of the most well-received of the season. Abby Elliott, who featured prominently in the episode alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about her work and experience making the episode, what we can expect from season four, and more! You can listen to the interview below. Please be sure to check out the show, which is now available to stream on Hulu and Disney+. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with one of the stars of the show The Bear, Abby Elliott.
0:09.1	What if I wanted to open a restaurant?
0:11.3	They're hard and they're brutal and they're specific, but I know how to do it.
0:15.5	This would be a different kind of restaurant.
0:18.5	What would we call this place?
0:22.7	What's this?
0:23.9	So non-negotiables. That's how restaurants at the highest level operate.
0:27.0	Push boundaries.
0:28.3	Constantly evolve through creativity.
0:30.4	Vibrant collaboration. That's demented.
0:32.8	These are non-negotiables.
0:34.9	I can sense the sarcasm.
0:36.2	No, no, no. Not sarcasm. Snark, contempt, even.
0:40.4	Well, Abby, this is Daniel Howitt from Next Best Picture. Thank you so much for your time. I've been a
0:45.2	fan for a very long time. Thank you for having me. Oh, that's so nice. It has been amazing to watch
0:50.9	the growth of sugar over the course of this series. Yeah.
0:54.8	Especially the last two seasons where you've really gotten to shine as a sort of counter for Carmi and Richie and everyone else, of course.
1:04.0	When did you start to have a sense of the trajectory of sugar beyond the first season?
1:09.6	Yeah. I mean, so Carmi has just gotten back to Chicago the first season.
1:14.3	And I think that, you know, the first season, I'm not in the restaurant at all, really,
1:21.2	until the final, you know, friends and family dinner.
1:24.2	But I think there was, for Sugar, season one, like a question of like,
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