“Purpose” and “Every Second Counts” are the overarching themes in the long-awaited second season of The Bear, last year’s reveal premiere, which returns to the Disney+ Spanish catalog on August 16 with 10 new chapters. With more choral action, the fiction, set in the world of haute cuisine, persists with some of the issues it raised at the outset. Two of them are the fear of success and the trap of living on a calling. So is the cult of aesthetics, of the beauty of things, which in this series serves as the lifeline for a handful of lives beset by tragedy.
There are many parallels between the fictional characters and who is one of the shadow leaders of this successful project. Matty Matheson (Canada, 41 years old) plays the handyman Fak and serves as a comic supplement to a series that has made anxiety and panic attacks a narrative subgenre. In reality, he’s much more than just a supporting character on The Bear. The Canadian is also an executive producer and culinary consultant. Because Matheson’s real career is in the kitchen. Raised behind the scenes at his grandfather’s restaurant, The Blue Goose, he is one of his country’s most respected chefs.
Twenty years ago he learned the highest techniques of French gastronomy from Chef Rang Nguyen at his Toronto restaurant. Since then, her career took off and she became a media celebrity through various digital entertainment formats from Vice. He is also independent in his social networks. He has more than a million followers on his official Instagram profile and more than 1.24 million on YouTube where he shares recipes and culinary tricks. “My grandfather’s restaurant was attached to the family home. Just opening the living room door gave him access to the hustle and bustle of the kitchens in a place where there are many tables to fill and many homemade dishes to cook. “It’s not a very safe place for a kid, but it taught me the keys to the profession,” he said in a telematics call from his Toronto office in mid-July, just minutes after The Bear received an Emmy nomination for Best Picture Comedy along with 12 other nominations.
The protagonists of The Bear face the challenge of turning the family sandwich shop into a haute cuisine restaurant in Season 2.Disney+
Adding to his experience in the world’s finest kitchens, his recent foray into acting helps him transmit to his character the fear of “doing something great that you’ve never done before and that takes a lot of effort from that but one knows that it is so.” I will give you a great reward. It features the protagonists of the second season of “The Bear”. Become a chosen family and face the challenge together to open a new restaurant on time, with the aim of earning the highest award possible: Michelin stars. While Mattheson is responsible for teaching the rest of the cast of the series kitchen tricks they can use in front of the camera to make them appear like skilled chefs, they also help him be believable in his dialogue. “I’m not a professional actor, so Neil Fak is a version of myself. This constant state of nervousness that he has is totally my thing. So does the need to please others and make their lives easier,” he admits.
Find yourself
In the first season, a tormented Carmy, whose chaotic family has destroyed his sanity, finds an limbo in his profession as a chef that draws him to both the heaven and hell of his own existence. After falling to fame in New York and paying a heavy price for it, he returns to Chicago and the humble family business when he learns of his brother’s suicide. But his intention is to make this sandwich shop one of the great culinary spots in town. Because of this, he now encourages those around him to find the best version of himself. “This isn’t the Carmy show anymore. The series gains consistency by giving space to the rest of the characters. As they learn to cook, they are looking for a voice of their own,” Mattheson continues.
“Finding yourself, your own talent and your own worth is closely related to your self-esteem. That’s something I found in the kitchen and it happens with these characters too,” says the chef, who recalls a tough time in high school. “I wasn’t good at sports, but I wasn’t good at math or chemistry either. When I discovered that I had a knack for cooking and social skills, I was unable to contain my frustrations. While it may seem like I’ve done a lot of different things on TV and the internet, I’ve really only been good at one thing: cooking. Finding purpose in life is the key to happiness and I was fortunate enough to do so at a relatively young age,” he continues. But the stress of working at a fast pace as a top chef causes him to abuse alcohol, a problem he overcame more than a decade ago but which is also reflected in the bear’s actions.
Many episodes of this season of the show focus on just one of the protagonists and hark back to the classic hero’s journey structure. They show us how we can achieve the excellence we strive for. Carmy uses her contacts to offer her team a very rare opportunity: to move to the epicenter of world gastronomy. It’s something Matheson himself hasn’t enjoyed in real life. The chef and actor from a working-class family learned the secrets of French cuisine by working in high-end restaurants but never left his native Canada. He was in his early thirties when he first visited Paris and had already opened restaurants of his own. On the other hand, in some chapters of this fiction, the young and ambitious chef Sydney tries out the best recipes in Chicago, the lovable pastry chef Marcus continues his creativity in Copenhagen and the complex and problematic Richie takes a radical turn in his life in the back room of one of the best restaurants in the world world and the fighter Tina does it in a renowned cooking school. Meanwhile, the viewer learns more about the family past of Carmy and her sister Natalie.
Current Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis is one of the prestigious guest stars in the new season of The Bear.Disney+
All of these stories are accompanied by powerful guest appearances that testify to the tremendous impact The Bear has had on the audiovisual industry. Among them, the current Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis shines in the best moment of her career. The actress plays the very dysfunctional mother of the protagonists. These new chapters also make brief appearances of Bob Odenkirk, reappearing after saying goodbye to the character of Saul Goodman in Better Call Saul; Sarah Paulson, Ryan Murphy’s muse for American Horror Story and American Crime Story; Britain’s Olivia Colman (The Crown, Broadchurch); and Will Poulter (“The Chronicles of Narnia”, “We Are the Millers”).
“There is more than chaos at The Bear. Silence can be very formative in this series and the new chapters keep reminding us of that.”
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