All rights reserved.Ī young fine-dining-trained chef (Jeremy Allen White) who returns to Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop after his brother Michael’s (Jon Bernthal) death by suicide, Carmy is rarely seen out of that kitchen-staple white tee. “It’s about giving the actor the best embodiment of their character,” said Spiridakis, “so that once they step out of their trailer, they don’t think about their costume again.” “The practical safety of our actors was a high priority.” Conveying personality was just as important the costumers injected individual flair into each character’s wardrobe, collaborating with the actors to find details that enhanced their backstories and arcs without distracting from the narrative. “I sent her an option and asked, ‘Would you wear this in the kitchen?’ She said, ‘One hundred percent no,’ and pointed out three reasons why,” Spiridakis remembers. ![]() Spiridakis even vetted shoes with a friend who owns a Brooklyn restaurant. The Bear employs overlapping dialogue, shaky camerawork, and brisk editing to evoke the intensity of a professional kitchen, and the costume team prioritized function to emphasize that sense of realism. Beef on Orleans in River North, which served as both inspiration and a filming location for the series. “It’s not a concept we invented.” For FX on Hulu’s word-of-mouth hit The Bear, which follows the kitchen staff of an Italian beef joint rocked by tragedy, the costume-design duo (Spiridakis designed for the pilot and Wheeler took on episodes two through eight) toured Chicago’s West Loop, popping into the kitchens of trendy restaurants like Proxi, Girl and the Goat, Au Cheval, and Avec to understand what real kitchen employees wear to work. ![]() “That’s a real thing we saw in kitchens,” Spiridakis said. Cristina Spiridakis and Courtney Wheeler knew exactly what the Original Beef of Chicagoland uniform needed to look like: white shirt, black pants, and comfortable shoes.
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