Are you a Swifty and have you gotten to meet
Taylor since your show stop and love story scene?
First of all, thank you for saying show stopping.
That's really sweet. Am IA Swifty.
I don't know. That's like a tall order.
I I'm I'm working on it.
Hi, I'm Evan Moss Bacharach and I'm Maddie Matheson and
Esquire's asked us to explain a few things,
so take a look. Let's dive in,
shall we? Dive.
How did it feel when the bear won big at
the Emmys?
Felt really good. Felt good,
Tori. Yeah. That felt nice.
Yeah. This is not the first time we kissed.
No. Traditionally on the bear,
whenever we complete a scene,
we all kiss each other.
Yeah. It's like a nice.
Yeah. Like a round Robin of,
like, appreciation. So it's a nice way to sort of.
We just wanted to share that kind of love with
everybody.
Exactly. This is like a behind the scenes of the
way.
Yeah. Eben, you supposedly nicknamed Maddie's acting Technique as the
Method Acting School of dramatic Reading.
Please explain. There. There was a technique there.
Yeah. Do you remember? Well,
you know, I think it was just me becoming fact.
And then when you saw that transition,
I think that transition sparked you
to really understand my process.
And that was the method that you saw,
the method become itself. I was also trying to help
Maddie's business grow. He's got a lot of different
arms of, of your businesses.
And I thought that method would commodify that kind of
thing for,
for you and, you know,
might be able to get some.
I'll see some loonies. Yeah.
And I think it'd be,
you know, the way that I act,
I think I could share that,
that skill. When the two of you are seen together,
who's the 1st to break?
I would say that's a trick question.
We're both professionals and we're pretty locked in.
We don't break. I don't think we do break.
We don't break. We're in character.
We show up, we're in character.
When we leave, we're still in character.
Takes a man to shake it sometimes.
What's the key to perfecting the Chicago accent?
There's a certain tightness and the spreadness kind of in
the mouth.
You know, things that I say to myself to kind
of help place my word is in the mouth as
I do like to say Jardinier,
say Jardinier a couple times before it take,
but that's a little bit stronger than where I am.
I say, like, exactly interesting couple of those things.
And I'm not really there in Massid,
so like, I'm. I haven't really even thought about trying
to get an accent.
No, no, I haven't got there.
How many times a day,
Evan, do fans call you Cousin?
Many times. Many times a day.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't mind it.
It's nice. It's nice. Especially when I'm on a run.
Kind of tired. Yeah. Cousin.
Keep going, Cousin. Keep going.
Thanks, Cousin. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice.
It's nice. How have your Co stars informed your acting
style?
They've informed everything. I wasn't an actor before.
And I think the reciprocals of of knowledge that they've
spent their lives working towards and they're just,
you know, I'm like a little mouse in a cage
and they're the water and they're just kind of feeding
me.
I mean, I think it's interesting because you are a
great communicator,
but I think when you started,
you had a sort of separation between what you thought
acting was and what you thought you sort of your
normal thing was.
And I think what we tried to do is sort
of bring those two things together.
Yeah, right. You made me feel very comfortable.
I'm good. Yes,
are you a Swifty and have you gotten to meet
Taylor since your show stop and love story scene?
First of all, thank you for saying show stopping.
That's really sweet. I've never met Taylor Swift.
Am IA Swifty. I maybe I'm like a Jason,
like a you're like a beginner Swifty or something.
I don't know. That's like a tall order.
I'm, I'm working on it.
Fishes was the most talked about episode of the last
season.
What was the onset vibe like after shooting this dinner
scene?
We all had a really nice time together,
telling stories, being together. Everyone was excited to be there.
We were excited to have all these wonderful actors.
And then when we started to shoot the scene,
definitely the temperature in the room changed.
Didn't feel very good at that table.
And then, you know, they would call cut and there
would be a big reset because the table is a
bit of a mess.
And we'd sort of all go off into the living
room of the Brazado house and
talk and chat and be nice again.
And then we'd have to go back and again.
It would start to feel kind of yucky in my
tummy.
Yeah, it was it was intense.
It was like, you know,
there's that many people caring about their craft and trying
to deliver a,
a scene that is a massive moment in time.
When it was all said and done,
I think everyone was very happy with
what they put into it and know I kind of
went back to a little bit of a chiller vibe,
you know, but it was it was an amazing experience.
This is a headline that says I've never liked Crocs,
but Maddie Matheson just convinced me to give them a
chance.
Maddie, how would you describe your personal style?
Well, just great overall. The casual,
I've said that like, I kind of my personal style.
I look like I deliver mail.
Sprinkled in there is like,
a little bit of like a juvenile delinquent with a
very rich dad.
Yeah, that could be it.
That's nice. Some pieces from dad,
some really nice suits and stuff that can steal from
his closet.
Yeah. You know, style icon for sure.
I love dressing myself, you know,
still no stylist, you know,
still we're out here just putting clothes on.
Just happy to get dressed every day.
You need clothes, you might as well look good.
Maddie is a real chef.
How true to life is The depiction of restaurant life
in The Bear?
I think is real. Every single restaurant is different.
Every chef is different. Every operator is different.
Every, every problem in the restaurant,
they're real. You know, it's,
it's very similar to like live theater,
like everything's happening behind the scenes and then service hits
and you need to be there.
You need to be present,
you need to be ready for service.
And it's, it's really intense.
If you could sit down for a meal with any
character besides your own,
who would you choose and why?
I think I would in real life like to spend
time with Richie.
I think eating at a restaurant with Richie would be
amazing because he wants to learn.
He's very excited about them and he's trying to understand
them.
And I think a dining out with Richie would be
very fun.
I would be psyched to have dinner with Marcus.
He's like seems so open minded and he is almost
he is a very joy like quality and really is
interested in sort of take taking the ride.
And so I wouldn't like to go to especially sort
of a more interesting restaurant with him.
I think he'd be a good dinner company.
That'd be beautiful. Ed, what dish can you cook the
best?
Let me see you know what changes what I'm interested
in cooking.
Recently, a dish that I've been making that I know
you like to make too is the
like a Genovese sauce. It's a meat sauce,
which is like a like a Stew,
beef cooked and lots and lots of onions,
red onions, different kinds of onions cooked for a very
long time.
It all kind of reduces and the meat starts to
fall apart and makes this really delicious,
earthy kind of ragu. Yeah,
right. It's beautiful. So that's what that's I think that
right now,
that's that one of the top dishes in my quiver.
What's your favorite dish they've cooked on the bear?
Well, on set, like Courtney,
who's our producer and, and chef,
she and her team make fresh focaccia a lot.
And whenever they make that,
it's like a huge hit.
And so whenever Coco actually makes something for everybody,
it's it's fire a little footnote to this focaccia.
And I I did bring my own personal sourdough
mother, like my little mother through the TSA,
smuggled in this little bit of of yeast kind of,
and that got incorporated into the focaccia.
I am. I said I was very I was a
very proud dad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks so much for watching Esquire.
Yeah. Have a good day and make sure that you
watch the bear.