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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Molly Gordon

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Molly Gordon joins us to talk about starring on FX's hit series The Bear. She get into what it's been like working with the incredible cast and how it's been to play a resident ER doctor on the show. She also shares what it was like growing up with parents who worked in show business and tell us what they taught her about filmmaking.

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Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fund.org

0:30.0

and is distributed by NPR. It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. The TV show The Bear is about working at a restaurant.

0:51.0

If you've heard or seen anything about the bear you probably know that and

0:56.2

if you have seen that show you probably know that watching the bear is unlikely to inspire you to take a job in a restaurant.

1:05.0

It's about all the ways in which jobs in that industry, cooking, serving, pouring drinks, fixing ice machines,

1:12.0

how all those things consume you almost completely.

1:15.6

It's about the ways that those jobs give meaning to otherwise broken people,

1:20.0

and how those same people struggle to find a place for themselves outside of work.

1:25.2

My guest Molly Gordon joined the cast of the Bear last season.

1:29.2

Her character Claire doesn't work in a restaurant. She's a resident in an ER. Maybe the only thing I can think of that

1:36.2

is more demanding and taxing and all-consuming than working in the

1:45.0

show, beginning of the Bear's second season, Claire reunites with Karmi,

1:47.0

the show's lead and head chef at the restaurant.

1:50.0

The two of them grew up together,

1:51.0

and eventually they start dating but again broken people

1:55.0

with all-consuming jobs the deck seems stacked against them. Here's a little bit

1:59.8

from the show in this clip Claire runs into Karmi at the local Corner store. They haven't seen

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