'The Bear' Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other

What's my favorite dessert?

[crickets chirping]

[Jeremy and Abby chuckling]

Okay, what up? [Matty laughs]

[cheery music]

Hello, we are the cast of The Bear,

and we are going to test how well we know each other

with Vanity Fair.

[cheery music]

Okay, first question.

What is my weirdest on-set habit?

Just relax.

[all laughing]

Gonna write it down.

[cap squeaking]

Well, I'm first in queue.

I know it, too.

[Ebon] No, let him write it down.

Just let me write it.

See, he has to know about it.

It can't be just

some nervous tic [Ayo laughs]

that he has no idea he does.

That's literally- [all laughing]

You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah.

[all laughing]

[Ayo clapping]

You guys.

I know about it, okay?

That's okay, okay.

I think we're gonna say it all at the same time.

One, two, three. Two.

Tap dancing. Tap dancing, okay.

[Ebon] It's like a hip-hop dance step.

It's correct. Tap dancing thing.

We got it, yeah, yeah. The tap dancing thing,

I knew. So you knew about that.

He's gonna- I know about it.

I know all about it.

I would say it's more of a toe touch.

Yeah. Like a toe tap.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Hmm.

Like a side to side. Shuffley.

Yeah. To me, it's like you're

in a circle, the outside circle

of like a breakdance dance battle.

[chuckles] Yeah, it's like a two-step.

Yeah. Yeah.

Like you might go in.

It's a nervous tic I have like kinda between setups.

Between action and cut,

I kinda just rock around and tap dance.

If I were a sandwich, what type of sandwich would I be?

I don't even know if I know this one.

Like a oatmeal. Turkey.

What?

Oat? [Matty chuckles]

Oat? Oat?

It's like a oatmeal,

like an oatmeal, [all laughing]

an oatmeal sandwich.

No. Oh. [chuckles]

Like a mush sandwich?

I'm going BLT.

No.

I think burger but like lettuce for bun.

I thought about that, but it's not what I wrote down.

I think a Turkey sandwich, no tomato.

That's, yeah, that's-

What?

[Abby] 'Cause you have a tomato thing-

Yeah. Where you can't have...

You like tomatoes, but you can't have them added.

I don't like them on a sandwich or burger.

Nicely done. [Ayo laughs]

That's right. [Ayo claps]

Well.

How do I like to spend an ideal day off?

Okay, work out.

Work out. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I would say one's a walk.

[Lionel] Oh, yeah, walk by the river.

A walk. I mean, yeah, the lake.

You didn't write it down.

You didn't write it down! I didn't write it down.

It's true, it's true, [all laughing]

it's true, it's true, it's true, it's true.

A walk, a workout.

Shooting dice?

[Matty] Playing dice.

[Ebon] Is that in there?

Well, we have two out of four.

[Ebon] Okay.

[Jeremy] What do I do all the time?

Movie. Smoke.

Yes and yes. [Ayo laughs]

Smoke.

Yeah.

Yeah. Shut up!

Yeah. [castmates clapping]

A walk, dice, a movie- Smoking.

And smoking. Smoking, yeah!

Feel so seen by everybody. That was so beautiful.

It's really, really nice.

[Ayo] Well.

Just a simple smoke and turkey sandwich.

[castmates laughing] [Ayo clapping]

None of those tomatoes.

They don't make 'em

like this anymore. Okay,

okay. I know, I know.

All right. [cheery music]

Okay, what's my favorite-

Oh, my God, [indistinct]. Cocktail.

Tequila-based?

No. No.

No, it's Negroni or gin and tonic.

I think it's- Or a white wine.

Yeah. Oh, it's white wine.

I think it's the mule. Is gin involved?

No, but- None of those things.

It has the same vodka.

I mean,

it has the same alcohol. It has vodka.

Martini?

Yeah.

I knew it was martini. Yeah, vodka martini.

I knew it was martini. Slightly dirty-

[Ayo] Yes.

Very, very cold.

Yes.

Blue cheese olives.

If I were to star on a reality show, what would it be?

My guesses-

Okay. Are either Below Deck,

because you can pop in,

you don't have to be on it too long, or Traitors.

Oh, that's really good.

Below Deck is very, very close.

I know Below Deck

is really close. I was gonna say that, too.

[Abby] Yeah. [chuckles]

I was gonna say Storage Wars.

Oh, Storage Wars.

Yeah, we do have a lot of storage units that, yeah.

What? What?

What? [all laughing]

That's so amazing. Okay, it's a show on Bravo,

and it's new, and it's about

like kinda new- Summer House?

Very close.

The one with the person from the Housewives,

and then she has a restaurant?

Vanderpump? Vanderpump?

Close. Oh, I know.

No, um, um, um, oh, my God.

Not Vanderpump, but The Valley!

Yes. The Valley!

The Valley, Valley. Valley.

Whoo!

The Valley. Okay, that's it.

Yeah, you got it. [castmates clapping]

You know me best.

You know me. [Ricky laughs]

[castmates clapping] [Abby smacks lips]

[cheery music]

What? If I were to treat

the cast- Don't.

[Abby laughs]

To a group vacation-

[Lionel] Huh.

Where would I take us?

Oh, I know.

Yeah, me too.

See, I think you guys think you know,

but it's not the truth.

Hmm. Well-

Greece.

Portugal. I would say Greece

or Portugal. That little island.

No. Portugal.

Italy.

Menorca.

Oh, Menorca's a good, that's a good answer.

[Lionel] Or Portugal.

I think that we would have a really nice time in Sicily.

Oh. That's where I would like-

Ooh. To take everybody.

Wow. You just told us.

Yeah, I told you guys. [castmates laughing]

Isn't that how it works?

Sicily. Yeah, Sicily.

I said Italy.

I think you

split the point. Matty said Italy.

I think it's half and half. I said Italy, too, though.

He said Greece. I think it's rigged,

though. Greece.

[Ayo] You did say Greece.

I did, I said, I said Greece first,

and then I said Italy 'cause I saw Sicily-

Ebon. And I didn't wanna look

like I was lookin'.

So you told. [castmates laughing]

Whoever's sittin' in this position could see it all.

[Lionel] Yeah, yeah.

So stop looking then! But I said it,

so everyone needs to turn. You gotta be like this.

All right, gang. [chuckles] [castmates laughing]

What is my go-to crafty snack?

[Ricky inhales sharply] [Lionel chuckles]

Like a bag of nuts.

[castmates laughing]

Matty says a bag of nuts.

Yeah, like those like multi nuts, like that multipack.

Multipack nuts.

Ricky's coming in no. [castmates chuckling]

I'ma say none.

[Ebon] Something's gestating.

What?

It's none, jump rope. Wait.

None, jump rope. Can I say, also-

I think, yeah. Also, cigarette.

[Jeremy] No.

[all laughing]

[Abby] What's a crafty cigarette?

Crossed my mind.

Yeah, like a banana.

Okay, Jeremy said banana. Go-to, yeah.

Okay, yeah. You don't drink those fruit,

those weird-ass smoothies?

That's what I think. [Matty laughs]

[Liza] Sorry. [chuckles]

The smoothies. I was gonna say

like a wellness shot.

Like some kind of like bar.

[Jeremy] Didn't you order-

[Abby] He's smiling, like a sustenance bar.

His eyes are twinkling. Like the KIND bars?

Oh, what is it?

Matty and Ayo.

Nuts.

Oh, yeah. Nuts.

Bag of nuts. I love a little bag of nuts.

Yeah. [all laughing]

You do.

[Ebon] Little sweet and salty.

Yeah. Just a little.

I love that.

What ingredient must be in everything I cook?

I say garlic.

Yeast?

Olive oil?

Olive oil. Like a butter, butter?

Butter. I was gonna say olive oil

or hot sauce. These are very practical.

Hot sauce, yeah. I would say hot.

Yeah.

They took both my answers, so I'm gonna say olive oil.

I'm gonna go olive oil.

I think, truthfully, olive oil

is probably the correct answer

in terms of it must be in everything I cook,

but because I am sort of devoted baker,

I put flour down. Shaming us for a word?

Flour.

Flour. Oh.

So Abby, you were quite- Yeah, yeah,

I was thinking. Quite close.

You should've just wrote olive oil.

Can I get that?

[all laughing]

That's the end to this exciting

[laughs] mini chapter of the game. Yeah.

[castmates clapping]

Yeah. Shall we continue?

Yeah! Whoo!

Yeah! Does somebody else wanna get

in the hot seat? Yeah.

[cheery music]

Okay, [sighs] what's my go-to karaoke song?

Everybody, you should know this.

Is it the overture from Drive My Car?

Yup.

[all laughing]

♪ Da na na, dun dun ♪

♪ Dun dun dun dun da ♪ The theme from Dune: Two?

♪ Ha, ah, ah, na, gee, ooh ♪

You know? [Liza laughs]

♪ Do you believe ♪

♪ In life after love ♪ ♪ Life after love ♪

I could see you

singing that. ♪ Dun, dun ♪

♪ Dun ♪ Cher?

[Jeremy] Cher, just Cher?

[Lionel] Just Cher. [chuckles]

Just so weird, I feel like you feel like you know people.

You feel like

they're your family. This gets real.

No, but- Yeah.

[castmates laughing]

Then you're just sorta-

First one- Born alone

and you die alone, wait.

Celine Dion? Bette Midler?

No, even though I have been known to do

♪ There were nights of endless pleasure ♪

Uh-huh, yeah. That's why I

was saying that.

This is taking too long.

I said, Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

Ah. [Jeremy sucks teeth]

Or No Doubt, Don't Speak. [sad trombone music]

Ah. That's the one

that- I was thinking Gwen Stefani-

Yeah, yeah. But I was like,

it's not Gwen Stefani. That's good.

That's a tough one. Yeah.

That's a tough one. It's No Doubt.

Yeah, Wuthering Heights.

What's my favorite dessert?

[crickets chirping]

[Jeremy and Abby chuckling]

Okay, what's up? [Matty laughs]

You don't like pie, right?

I hate pie. [Jeremy chuckles]

Okay, I knew that about you,

but- Creme brulee.

So I'm narrowing- Oh.

That down. Yeah.

And I didn't see it.

Check the camera.

Check the tape. [Liza laughs]

Creme brulee.

He saw it- We've had dinners together.

For sure. We've had some

dinners together.

This one is easy.

What's my zodiac sign?

And do I believe in astrology?

Libra. Pisces.

Sagittarius. And no.

Easy. [chuckles]

Okay, great.

Anybody else? [Matty laughs]

I don't know the zodiac stuff.

This is really dark. Wait, I do.

Well, Lionel, my only friend in the world.

[castmates laughing]

Libra and no.

Libra and no. [bell dings]

But I love to make judgements about astrology,

and I love to tell people things, but it's not true.

Okay, fine. That was chilling.

That was, yeah. That was chilling?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yup.

[castmates laughing]

Wow, you see. Yeah, what's up?

I felt like, was like the vibe off or something?

Was it me?

You're unknowable.

It's true. You contain multitudes,

like yeah. Yeah,

Ayo The Enigma Edebiri. Yeah, yeah.

Matty. [cheery music]

[castmates laughing]

Which castmate am I most likely to call

to bail me out of jail?

Ricky. Ricky.

Be Ricky. Ricky, mm-hmm.

Ricky.

See? [Liza laughs]

I ain't going to jail 'cause Ricky gonna get me out.

I go in with you.

Yeah, exactly.

Spend the night.

Yeah.

Aside from myself, who is my favorite celebrity chef?

Emeril.

Sandra Lee.

Bourdain.

I'm gonna go with Jacques Pepin.

[Ayo] Rachael Ray.

Rachael Ray. Rachael Ray.

EVOO queen. Yes.

She's selling dog food.

She's the queen.

[castmates laughing]

When you get to that point, that's real celebrity hours.

Yeah, that's real.

This is a big one.

What's my favorite meal to make?

Oh. Boiled eggs.

Dog bowl. Boiled eggs.

[Ayo] Big bowl of pasta.

It's a burger.

No.

Oh, shit.

What? Lasagna.

No. Birria?

No.

I know you like a little butter-based-

Stew.

Just stew?

Just stew. I like that.

[Liza laughs]

It's a beef bowl? It's boiled eggs.

I put boiled eggs and beef bowl.

Beef bowl. Stew.

I said dog bowl. I was right.

I said dog bowl. You said dog bowl.

I said dog bowl. Yeah, beef bowl.

That's what that is. You just make ground beef

and rice.

Ground beef and rice. Bulking season.

That's your favorite meal- Yeah.

To make? [Abby laughs]

Is that true? My little microwave

beef bowls.

Well, my boiled eggs are my favorite.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're good. Stay sturdy, folks.

[Abby laughs] [cheery music]

Y'all are never gonna get this.

What's the question? Well, that's a-

What are you writing?

I think that's the point.

The question is, if I wasn't an actor,

what career would I pursue?

Mm. I think you would be doing

some sort of like managing, like you'd be managing people

or like project managing or something.

Maybe like an architect.

I was gonna say architect.

Like professional highlight player.

I say a dancer. [Liza laughs]

You got a good arm on you.

You'd work in theater. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, director?

I don't know, you workin' on Wall Street?

I don't know. I think you'd be

a politician. A dancer

or lighting director. I think you'd be

a really great politician.

The mayor of New York.

Yeah. A city planner.

[Liza laughs]

Florist, florist! City planner.

Wow, I would work with rescue animals.

[Castmates] Ah.

Even though I'm allergic to animals, but.

[castmates laughing] [sad trombone music]

Okay, y'all don't know this neither.

[castmates laughing]

[Liza laughs]

What's my favorite flavor ice cream?

Mm. Something nasty.

Is it like rum raisin? Something nasty?

Like coffee? Coffee?

Pistachio? I would say a rocky road.

Butter pecan.

Dulce de leche.

I was gonna say that. Ah, yeah.

Y'all don't know this.

[laughs] What? What?

I love that. [castmates laughing]

I like that, everybody else,

it was very depressing if nobody knew.

And Liza's like, You idiots.

What's my favorite bodega order?

A bacon, egg, and cheese?

You know what?

You're actually right, and I'm wrong,

but- What?

There we go. What did you

write down then? [laughs]

I just, I forgot, like there's what-

Chopped cheese on a roll.

Chopped cheese.

BLT, chopped cheese.

You get a point, you get a point.

Okay. What happened?

[castmates laughing]

You get a point.

And that's it.

[Matty] That's it, you're, yeah.

Good job. All right,

[sighs] all right. See, y'all?

[cheery music]

Here we go.

What do I like to do on the weekends?

Spend time with your daughter.

Work out?

[Ricky scoffs]

[castmates laughing]

I mean, I've seen you at the gym.

Yeah, I work out. The rowing machine.

Yeah, you work out.

Run down by the lake.

It's hanging with my daughter.

Ah. Yeah.

That's nice of you.

[castmates laughing]

Just on the weekends.

Where do I wanna travel the most?

What is this?

[all laughing]

Ricky, is this for you? Where do I wanna

travel the most? Is that you dreamin'?

Where do you wanna go the most?

Yeah. Where do me and my daughter

wanna go the most? Where?

Yeah. Espana.

Hawaii. Sicily.

Italy again? Yeah. Yeah, Italy.

I'ma go Sicily, too. Yeah, let's all go

with Italy. Rochester.

I'm going Spain. Rochester.

Rochester. [Matty laughs]

Double-down Italy. Just 'cause.

Only Austria.

What? Why? [castmates laughing]

Why did you spell it wrong?

It's a I-A. [castmates laughing]

You wanna go to Austria? He spelled it Austra.

I wanna go to Austria.

He spelled it wrong. What's in Austria?

What is there?

I wanna take like a long train ride through Austria,

like yeah. Yeah.

You can go on a train ride in Rochester.

You're claustrophobic. [castmates laughing]

You can't get off a train.

I'm claustrophobic.

Okay, here we go. [castmates chuckling]

What's my favorite comfort food?

Boiled eggs and beef. Taco Bell.

[laughs] Beef bowl, dog bowl. Dog bowl.

Hard-boiled eggs. Oh.

[Jeremy chuckles]

[Ayo] No, I think it's pasta.

Mm-hmm. I think it's like bolognese.

Lasagna. Pizza, pizza?

It's pizza.

Pepper and egg sandwich?

No.

Pizza? No, I say lasagna.

Like a short rib ragu.

It's close.

A chicken parm.

Oh.

[gasps] Oh. Oh.

[cheery music]

What is go-to struggle meal?

Ooh. [Ricky sighs]

What's a struggle meal? There's so many.

Struggle meal?

What is that? Yeah, yeah.

There's so many. Wait,

what is a struggle meal? When you broke.

Yeah, just like, yeah.

It's just what it sounds like

is what a struggle meal is. Okay.

Yeah, I have two thoughts. I say Chick-fil-A.

Which is one which is cereal

'cause you be eating cereal. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. You get in cereal loops.

Mm-hmm. Or like wings.

[laughs] Mm-hmm. You order wings

in the depths of despair.

Mm-hmm. Okay.

Chick-fil-A.

McDonald's cheeseburger?

No.

I like cereal.

I'm with Ayo on this one.

Cereal, yeah.

I've come outside, I've seen you on your doorstep with it,

the Chick-fil-A bags.

I'm gonna double- [castmates laughing]

It was a couple times.

I'm not like every time.

I'ma double-down on Matty's. Like tacos.

Taco Bell tacos.

Ayo got it, it's chicken wings.

Yeah, see. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Right.

Give me my points. Should've went with that.

Mm-hmm. Go to the-

What was the name of the musical group I was featured in?

Jodeci?

[castmates chuckling]

OF?

Yeah, that's the right answer,

but I wrote Gap Band because that's just-

I knew you were [castmates laughing]

gonna say something stupid!

Jodeci is close.

[Abby] I know, yeah.

All right.

Who is my dream director to work with?

Spielberg?

Mel Brooks?

QT?

Denis Villeneuve or QT.

Looks like Ebon knows me best.

What did he say? Wait, who is it?

What did he say?

QT? Tarantino.

QT, QT. Okay.

Oh. Think Ayo won.

Ayo got the most.

Yeah, Ayo did well. [cheery music]

[Ayo] Oh.

Ayo did well. [Matty laughs]

I thought for sure that I won.

What?

You said Sicily once.

Thanks, Vanity Fair- You said-

For watching.

[All] Thanks, Vanity Fair.

[laughs] It looks like Ebon knows me best.

It's my boy.

[castmates laughing] [Ricky clapping]

Watch your head. [microphone thuds]

That's what you get! [Lionel sighs]

That's beautiful. I'm very disappointed

in you. [castmates laughing]

All I had to do is be quiet. Very disappointed in you.

All I had to do is be quiet, [Jeremy clapping]

and you got got by God.

Mm-hmm. You can stay there.

Oh, the same. Knock your cap off.