Ayo Edebiri thinks of Jeremy Allen White as “family.”
The actor has grown close to her co-star while filming “The Bear,” and she feels “blessed” that they’ve had one another for support as the success of the show has increased.
“Jeremy is one of the most grounded, hard-working people I know. I would describe my friendship and relationship with him as just a lot of trust and a lot of gratitude. We shot this show without any expectation. To be on this journey with him, with everybody, it really does feel like a blessing, and so I call him family. I call the whole cast and crew family because it really feels like a family endeavor,” she told Sunday Times Style magazine.
Edebiri loved celebrating with those involved with the show after the Golden Globe Awards — for which she and White won Best Actress and Actor in a Comedy Series, respectively, as well as the program scooping Best Musical or Comedy Series – in a “glorified party bus.”
“It was really cute because it was our first moment to come down from everything and just be together, without being photographed or interviewed. Then, we went to a party, we ate, we vibed a little,” she said.
But the Bottoms actor couldn’t help but feel star-struck around the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg.
“It was hard not to spin my head and be star-struck,” she said.
But one of Edebiri’s outstanding memories of the night was a conversation she had with French director Justine Triet.
“I told her in hideously broken French that I loved her film Anatomy of a Fall, and she fully responded in English and was, like, ‘Thank you very much.’ She was basically, like, you and I will not have a conversation in French … and she was correct. I thought it was really hilarious,” the “Abbott Elementary” guest star recalled.
