Ebon Moss-Bachrach & Matty Matheson are just as adorably close in real life as their characters on ‘The Bear,’ from complimenting each other on that unplanned kiss at the Emmys to Ebon helping Matty develop his own “Mathod Acting” technique. The co-stars get hysterically honest as Matty describes being starstruck by the back of Meryl Streep’s head and Ebon reveals which celebrity is the most active in their ‘Fantastic Four’ group chat — Pedro Pascal, anyone? Watch as Matty says “Yes, Chef!” to Selena Gomez, praising her cooking skills, and calls out Ebon for giving him the best advice he’s ever received from an actor. Plus, Ebon shares how you can steal Matty's style, inspired by icon John Belushi.
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00:00He asked me if I ever actually thought about my character,
00:02Neil Fack.
00:03I said, no.
00:05He told me maybe I should think about him.
00:07And I was like, OK.
00:08Confirm your story.
00:11What's up, L Nation?
00:13I'm Evan Moss Bacharach.
00:14This is Matty Matheson.
00:17And today, we're going to let L ask us anything.
00:21Here we go.
00:22I'm going to ask these.
00:23I'm going to say them fast.
00:24I'm going to say them once.
00:25So listen up.
00:26Matty, how did you develop your famous method acting technique?
00:29Method.
00:30Method.
00:30The method acting technique.
00:32I listened to you once.
00:33You told me something stupid.
00:35It embedded in my mind.
00:36And then I became the method that I am today.
00:39Correct.
00:40He also tells me to dig into dignity sometimes,
00:43where I have to dig into dignity.
00:45I use funny catchphrases that can embed themselves easily
00:48into Matty's adult brain.
00:51Yeah, I work best in catchphrases.
00:54Evan, how would you describe a night out with a bear cast?
00:59Effervescent.
01:01Matty, who's the best chef on the bear cast?
01:04You.
01:05Great.
01:07Matty, what was going through your head
01:08when I kissed you at the Emmys?
01:11How great your breath was, and your tongue was nice.
01:14Was I expecting that?
01:15Never.
01:15We didn't plan anything.
01:16We didn't want to go viral.
01:17Yeah.
01:22Evan, if Richie opened his own restaurant, what would it be?
01:26Good question.
01:26I feel like it would be a beef stand.
01:29Is that boring?
01:30It feels like, yeah, OK.
01:32I think that's it.
01:34Matty, how do you take your beef?
01:35Dipped or dry?
01:36Sweet or hot peppers?
01:38I like sweet, hot, and half-dipped.
01:41Is that a thing?
01:41When I ask for it.
01:42OK.
01:44Evan, how would Desi fare in the bear kitchen?
01:48I think Desi's probably like that character who
01:52was smoking.
01:53Yeah.
01:54Yeah, like he would, he would, it was Josh.
01:56Was that that guy's name?
01:56I think Josh.
01:57Yeah, he was in that world.
01:59Yeah.
01:59Matty, who was the last person you were starstruck to meet?
02:03All of them?
02:04Like, I don't know.
02:06I'm always, like, being at these functions, it's insane.
02:08Meryl Streep, like, she was kind of sitting close to me.
02:11I was just looking at the back of her head,
02:12and I was like, that's Meryl Streep's back of her head.
02:15I was starstruck by the back of her head.
02:16The first one was, like, maybe the very first Globes
02:19we went to.
02:19I was even kind of taking some weird photos.
02:22I was taking, like, sneaky photos,
02:23and I saw, like, Quentin Tarantino.
02:25I saw Martin Scorsese.
02:26Like, I saw these people, and I was just like, what?
02:28Like, Robert De Niro.
02:29Like, I just saw these people that I was just like,
02:31how are we in the same room?
02:32Wow.
02:33You were taking sneaky pictures of them?
02:34Don't do that.
02:35I did it the first time.
02:36I did it the first, I was way over there.
02:38They were over there.
02:39But I was like, that's cool.
02:41What's up?
02:42I don't approach anybody.
02:44I've, like, don't approach, and don't ask for photos,
02:47and just be happy to be there.
02:48Somebody comes up to you, tight, but I do not approach.
02:53Eben, what is your go-to belt-in-the-car song?
02:57Oh, man.
02:59I like Johnny Hartman's version of Charade.
03:03Cool.
03:04Yeah.
03:04Matty, what's your go-to belt-in-the-car song?
03:07Cut my life in two pieces.
03:09This is your last resort.
03:11Suffocation, no breathing, don't get it.
03:14If I'm living or dying, that kind of.
03:20Eben, if I wasn't an actor, I would be.
03:22Oh.
03:24Yeah.
03:33Good.
03:33That's it.
03:34That's my answer.
03:35A poet.
03:36Yeah, exactly.
03:37Which celebrity chef could hack it at the beef?
03:41I don't know.
03:43Celebrity chef?
03:45What does that mean?
03:47You'd have to be down.
03:48You want to say Jacques Pepin?
03:50Yeah.
03:50Jacques Pepin easily could hack it at the beef.
03:53He would be doing butter roses, butchering chickens
03:56better than anybody.
03:57Jacques Pepin forever.
03:59He could hang at the beef.
04:00He's unflappable.
04:01Yeah, he would be just there loving it,
04:03just talking to everybody, chatting it up, like a breeze.
04:06It would be amazing.
04:06It would be peaceful.
04:09Eben, what life skills did you learn during your time
04:12as a cater waiter?
04:15Balance.
04:16Balance.
04:17Yeah, that's nice.
04:18Engage your core.
04:19Engage your core.
04:20Don't look at the coffee cups.
04:22No, if you could cameo on any other TV show,
04:24what would it be?
04:26Ozark, if it was still going.
04:28I love Ozark.
04:29I'd like to be some kind of some sort of alien of some kind.
04:33That would be nice.
04:34Eben, who is the most active in the Fantastic Four group chat?
04:37Everyone wants to know.
04:39Pedro Pascal.
04:40Obviously.
04:41What conversations are you guys having in the next few days?
04:45I'm not going to get into that.
04:46I'm not going to.
04:46Don't talk about it.
04:47You don't want to know.
04:48I'm not going to dispel the mystery.
04:50You want to preserve it.
04:51Come on.
04:51Matty, who's your style icon?
04:54Belushi.
04:55It's timeless.
04:56Look at him.
04:56He's the coolest looking dude.
04:58Was the coolest guy, probably.
05:00Good sunglasses.
05:00Good sunglasses.
05:02He could sing.
05:02He could dance.
05:03Had that kind of like varsity chic kind of dirty dog vibe.
05:07Yeah.
05:08Looks good with a sheen of sweat.
05:09Yeah.
05:10Big, big sweaty guy.
05:11I'm down.
05:12Eben, what's one prop or wardrobe piece
05:15you've taken from set?
05:17I took a pair of Adidas high tops for my wife
05:22from the first season.
05:23Matty, have you taken anything?
05:25No.
05:25I kind of wear my own clothes at times.
05:28No, actually, on the first season, they gave me,
05:31I was wearing a Chicago Cubs shirt once,
05:33and I took that home.
05:34Yeah.
05:35Matty's more of a giver than a taker.
05:36Absolutely.
05:38Well, Fats wearing all that stuff is Rosa Rigosa.
05:42What I'm wearing right now, Eben.
05:44Rosa Rigosa.
05:46El nation.
05:47What's the website where people can buy that from?
05:50RosaRigosa.www.org.
05:55It's not an org.
05:58I think a .com, maybe .ca.
06:00I don't know.
06:01Matty, how would you rate Selena Gomez's cooking skills?
06:04Incredible.
06:05Number one, she's the best.
06:06It was really amazing.
06:07Her and her friends had a lot of fun.
06:08We made something that I really loved making.
06:10We made Hello Dollies, I think.
06:12My favorite thing to have is Hello Dollies.
06:14To share that with Selena and her friends was really nice.
06:17Eben, New York style or Chicago deep dish?
06:20New York style.
06:21Come at me, you know.
06:22Yeah, I know.
06:24It's a loaded question.
06:25Deep dish is for a very specific kind of situation, you know?
06:29Me and Ricky go at least once a year.
06:31We go to Pequod's, and we get it.
06:33And it is an amazing thing.
06:36But in an everyday slice, like, that's what you want.
06:38Like, I close my eyes and think of pizza, I think of a slice.
06:40So New York style.
06:42Matty, which Handyman scene was the most challenging to perform?
06:45Out of all seasons, when I was doing the electrical work
06:48on season two, I was kind of getting electrocuted low key.
06:51So I was trying to get out a couple lines.
06:53I kept getting a little zappy zappy, you know?
06:56But we made it through.
06:58Eben.
06:59Yes.
06:59What's the best advice you've gotten from another actor?
07:02Show up on time.
07:05Uh, yeah.
07:07I'll leave it there.
07:08The best advice I've ever gotten was from Eben.
07:10He asked me if I ever actually thought
07:12about my character, Neil Fack.
07:14I said, no.
07:15He told me maybe I should think about him.
07:17And I was like, OK.
07:21Yeah, I can confirm your story.
07:23Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
07:26Thanks so much for watching.
07:27Matty, please watch the bea- no, what was the- sorry.
07:30Ha.
07:31Ha.
07:33Thank you so much for watching.
07:35Make sure you watch the bear on Hulu and FX and Disney+.
07:40Thank you so much for watching.
07:41Please watch the bear on anything.