Liza Colón-Zayas, of ‘The Bear,’ on Loving Someone Who’s in the Fight of Their Life

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On the Emmy- and Peabody-winning series “The Bear,” Liza Colón-Zayas plays Tina Marrero, a cook at the Chicago restaurant at the center of the story. Tina and her fellow workers are in a constant struggle for the survival of their restaurant, and they fight just as fiercely with one another. Only at rare moments do we see them drop the tough exterior and show one another love or respect. Today, Colón-Zayas reads “A Web Between Her Body and Mine,” by Karen Paul. It’s a Modern Love essay about two friends who also met at work, but have a different kind of bond: Karen has no problem showing affection to her best friend, Miriam. But after Miriam has a terrible accident, Karen finds herself in uncharted territory, not certain when, or how, to support her. It’s a story Colón-Zayas says she relates to personally, and her reaction to it takes her by surprise.

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0:00.0	Love now and
0:02.0	and the first.
0:04.0	The first that I love.
0:05.0	The love was stronger than anything.
0:08.0	I feel a love for love. And I love you more than anything.
0:11.0	There's love.
0:15.0	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:17.0	This is Modern Love.
0:19.0	This season, we've been celebrating 20 years of the Modern Love column.
0:24.1	We're inviting some of our favorite writers, musicians, thinkers, and actors to dig into the
0:29.0	archives and read an essay that they connect to personally. If you're a fan of the Emmy winning FX series The Bear,
0:37.0	first of all, same, and second of all, you'll definitely know this week's guest.
0:42.0	Look alive, chefs, we open.
0:44.0	Raka, let's go.
0:46.0	Come on, step like.
0:47.0	That's Liza Colon Zayas.
0:50.0	She plays Tina Morero, a cook at the restaurant in Chicago where the show takes place.
0:54.7	And the relationships between the characters who work at this restaurant are pretty intense.
0:59.2	You fucking loser.
1:01.2	You fucking loser.
1:02.2	You fucking loser. You don't have shit.
1:04.0	You don't have fucking shit.
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