'The Bear' Star Ebon Moss-Bachrach on Fame and Why He's Not the Next Glen Powell

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | June 20, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | June 20, 2024 |

The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach is still getting used to recognizable-in-public level fame, and he says it’s a little overwhelming.

“I was on top of a little mountain outside Kyoto and a Korean couple came up to me and were saying how much they love the show,” he recently told The Guardian. “I get a lot of comments. People yell ‘Cousin!’ at me all day. Sometimes, you know, you’re just not having a great day. And it’s just like: I’m sorry, man, I don’t have much for you.”

He added that the show’s success has “warped audiences’ perception of his career.” (The Hollywood Reporter)

“There’s a convenient narrative I find myself trying to resist that people often like to imprint, that’s like, I’ve been waiting in the wings or something,” he explained. “And that’s just kind of romantic and stupid and oversimplified. I mean, I’ve been, in my mind, pretty successful. I don’t know what percentage of my union works, but it’s very small. And yeah, I’ve never had anything connect like The Bear, but I’ve been fine.” Remember when I said Glen Powell wanted to be successful more than he wanted to be good? Moss-Bachrach is the opposite. Guess which one I like better!

He says he and his character are very similar, but it’s how they’re different—how Richie expresses himself—that he most admires and wants to emulate.

“I think he’s a really good dad. I think being a father is very important to him in the same way for me, it’s kind of one of the main definitions of my life, one of my main identifiers,” pause so the author can cry while she remembers Richie singing along to Taylor Swift in honor of his daughter … thank you.

“I think one of [Richie’s] greatest strengths is how fully expressed he is, you know? When he feels something, he says it for the most part; he doesn’t really self-censor. He’s working on it. Maybe because I’m from New England or because I work in a very collaborative medium and I’m always around people, I feel overly socialized. I would like to be maybe a little bit less self-censoring and polite, you know.”