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How Molly Gordon Landed the Role of Claire on ‘The Bear’ Without an Audition · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Olly Gordon got the biggest break of her acting career
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  Speaker 2: when she was cast as Carme's love interest Claire on
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  Speaker 2: season two of The Bear. And while Molly was a
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  Speaker 2: working actor prior to the role, she hadn't achieved the
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  Speaker 2: type of success where she'd typically be given a job
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  Speaker 2: on his show's popular as The Bear without a series
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  Speaker 2: of auditions and screen tests all that stuff, alongside, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Jeremy Allen White, who plays CARMEI. But that wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: case with this opportunity. Chris Store, one of the creative
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  Speaker 2: minds behind The Bear, had previously worked with Molly and
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  Speaker 2: she guest starred for two episodes on Rammy, and he
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  Speaker 2: was so positive they'd have chemistry. He called Molly and
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  Speaker 2: offered her the job point blank. She tells gold Derby.
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  Speaker 2: I think Chris knew I used my sense of humor
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  Speaker 2: to mask my kind of self loathing, while Jeremy is
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  Speaker 2: a more quiet human and our energy would combine to
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  Speaker 2: create something compelling. I was still so nervousless to step
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  Speaker 2: up to the plate. Thankfully, Jeremy is one of our
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  Speaker 2: great talents. He welcomed me with open arms. It was
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  Speaker 2: a special experience. Olli Gordon there on her experience working
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  Speaker 2: on the Bear. Season three hits Hulu June twenty seven.
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