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- Rob Reiner credit Jamie Lee Curtis for encouraging him to tackle the function of Albert on season 4 of The Bear
- Reiner and Curtis famously shared the display once they performed exes on New Lady within the 2010s
- Curtis has already received an Emmy for her recurring visitor function on The Bear
The Bear followers have Jamie Lee Curtis to thank for Rob Reiner’s half in season 4.
Talking to ipromiseyoumedia for the forty first anniversary re-release of This Is Spinal Faucet, Reiner, 78, credit pal Curtis, 66, with encouraging him to tackle the function of Albert Schnur on the fourth season of the FX on Hulu collection.
“She had advised me she was on the seasons earlier than, after which once I was requested to do it, I stated, ‘I do not know,’ and she or he stated, ‘No, you have to do it! It is actually enjoyable!'” Reiner shares of Curtis, who’s married to his This Is Spinal Faucet costar and frequent collaborator, Christopher Visitor.
Reiner appeared as Albert in three episodes of The Bear, principally in scenes with Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Parker), and praises collection creator Christopher Storer for setting “such an awesome temper.”
“It was a lot enjoyable to do,” the Emmy-winning actor gushes. “It is enjoyable to behave, and I like performing as a result of it is no worries. You simply present up and do your work.”
Explaining his strategy to performing versus directing, like he did with This Is Spinal Faucet, Reiner remembers how Ron Howard referred to as him years in the past and requested him to be in his 1999 movie “EDtv” alongside Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
“I stated, ‘Yeah, okay, I am going to do it.’ He says, ‘Effectively, let me ship you the script, and see in the event you prefer it,'” he remembers of his dialog with Howard. “I stated, ‘Ah, you do not have to ship me the script.’ I stated, ‘If it stinks, it is not my fault. I am simply performing.'”
“So, to me, I like to act, and it is enjoyable to do and you do not have the complications,” Reiner explains.
Reiner and Curtis’ friendship goes approach again, and the 2 even shared the display as exes on New Lady.
The legendary actors performed Bob and Joan, the divorced mother and father of Zooey Deschanel’s Jess Day on New Lady, making quite a few appearances in the course of the present’s seven-season run.
Reiner and Curtis first appeared within the season 2 episode titled “Mother and father” in 2012 and, after reprising their function a couple of occasions, confirmed up once more in the course of the two-part collection finale in 2018, in an episode titled “The Curse of the Pirate Bride.”
Reiner has additionally teamed up with Curtis’ husband, Visitor, on a number of tasks, together with This Is Spinal Faucet, The Princess Bride and Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues.
Curtis famously received an Emmy for her function as Donna Berzatto, the mom of Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), Natalie (Abby Elliott) and Mikey (Jon Bernthal), on The Bear.
The Halloween star took house the Excellent Visitor Actress in a Comedy Sequence on the 2024 Artistic Arts Emmys for her efficiency within the season 2 episode titled “Fishes.”
Taking the stage after her identify was introduced, Curtis advised the gang in her acceptance speech, ” there’s a saying, ‘Damage individuals harm individuals,’ however I additionally suppose you possibly can add to that and say, ‘Helped individuals assist individuals,’ and I believe that’s the story of The Bear.”
Backstage after her win, Curtis referred to as herself “the luckiest woman on the earth.”
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All 4 seasons of The Bear are actually streaming on Hulu.