LET HER COOK!

WITH A FULL PLATE OF PROJECTS, THE BREAKOUT STAR OF THE BEAR IS SERVING SERIOUS STAR POWER

- Jennie Noonan

For three seasons on critically acclaimed hit The Bear, Ayo Edebiri has seen her ambitious and headstrong character, Sydney Adamu, climb the ranks from sous-chef in a struggling sandwich shop to second-in-charge in the chaotic kitchen of a fine-dining Chicago restaurant run by her troubled mentor, Carmy (played by Jeremy Allen White). Where would she like to see Sydney go next? “On vacation! That poor girl, she needs a break,” Edebiri, 29, deadpanned to Deadline’s Crew Call podcast on June 2. “In therapy — and then on the beach!”

There'll be no such rest for Edebiri. Even during her own recent month-long holiday to Asia, she conceived the idea to write a surrealist live-action Barney & Friends movie - based on the children’s TV purple dinosaur - which she pitched to Get Out star and director Daniel Kaluuya. “I felt like that girl who takes a gap year,” she told WSJ magazine on June 4 of the project that Mattel Films and A24 have green-lit. “I was just thinking of, what are the movies that I want to make? What are the things that I want to do?”

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