Abby Elliott on Natalie in ‘The Bear’: ‘She has a short fuse sometimes’
Abby Elliott discusses her character Natalie's evolution in the fifth season of the hit drama 'The Bear'. She highlights Natalie's struggle to balance her professional responsibilities as a manager with her personal life as a new mother.
Why it matters
The show is a major cultural touchstone, and the character development of the supporting cast provides insight into the series' exploration of family and workplace dynamics.
Five seasons into The Bear , the Emmy Award-winning Chicago-set drama, there are still things about her character Natalie that surprise Abby Elliott, who plays the sister of talented chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and the restaurant’s reluctant manager.
“Even though Natalie is this put-together person and fixer who wants to make sure that everything’s running properly, she does have these loose-cannon moments where she loses it,” says Abby over a video call from Budapest.
“You see the frustration, and then you see her snap back into it.” Natalie’s interactions with handyman Neil Fak played by Matty Matheson get a special mention. “Natalie would call him sweetheart and baby, and then he’d do something to set her off, and she would just lose it on him. She has a short fuse sometimes, which she probably gets from Donna (Natalie and Carmy’s mother played by Jamie Lee Curtis).
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