LAST ORDERS

The Bear star Edwin Lee Gibson chats to YOLANTHE FAWEHINMI about what viewers can expect from the fifth and final season of the hit drama

- YOLANTHE FAWEHINMI

EDWIN Lee Gibson wasn’t expecting his career to blossom after the first season of The Bear aired in 2022, but he’s so grateful that it did.

Created by Christopher Storer, the hit drama series stars Jeremy Allen White as obsessive head chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, after he returns home to Chicago to run a family restaurant after the death of his brother.

The show, which has won a string of awards, including Emmys and Golden Globes, features Fargo actor Edwin as veteran line cook, Ebraheim, who works in the kitchen at The Original Beef of Chicagoland and helps transform the eatery into a high-end dining destination.

From Ebraheim's winding path through the restaurant's various iterations, quietly dropping out of culinary school, to being mentored by a local businessman played by the late TV legend Rob Reiner, Edwin hopes viewers can learn more about his psychological trauma in the fifth and final season.

It picks up the morning after Sydney Adamu, played by Ayo Edebiri, Richard “Richie” Jerimovich, played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto, played by Abby Elliott, discover that head chef Carmy has quit the food industry, leaving the restaurant to them.

With no money, the threat of a sale and a huge storm in their way, the new partners must band together with the rest of the team to achieve one last service, hoping they'll finally earn a Michelin star.

Ultimately, they learn that what makes a restaurant “perfect” might not be the food, but the people who work there.

Ahead of the release of the fifth series on Disney+, Edwin discusses Ebraheim’s American dream and how his character has evolved from the start of the series.