Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photos: FX
This article was originally published on July 7, 2023. We’re serving it back up again ahead of The Bear’s third season.
After The Bear’s first season became a major critical and popular success, its casting directors started to receive a lot of unsolicited auditions, including some from actors looking to show off their special qualifications.
“I had a young man send me a tape of himself making scrambled eggs,” says Jennifer Rudnicke, one of the casting directors who is based in Chicago, where the series is primarily filmed. “It was literally just a video in his kitchen of him begging to be on the show. We kept getting submissions like that.”
Amateur chefs weren’t the only ones eager…
