The Bear walked away with zero wins at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The hit series was nominated in three categories on Sunday, February 23, including Jeremy Allen White for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and Liza Colón-Zayas and Ayo Edebiri for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. The entire cast also received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
After debuting in 2022, The Bear has explored the food industry through the lens of a talented chef named Carmy (White), who returned to Chicago shortly after his older brother Mikey’s (Jon Bernthal) death to take over their family sandwich shop, The Beef. After closing the local spot, Carmy and the employees reinvented the restaurant into The Bear, which found success and failure in the most recent season.
While a fourth season hasn’t been officially confirmed yet, The Bear has had Us talking — especially when it comes to the highly debated idea of Carmy and Sydney exploring a romance. Some fans have shown their support for the fictional couple while several cast members remain divided on whether the platonic partners should turn their connection into something more.
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“They got a lot of trauma on both sides. Like, if even that [was explored] — I don’t think that window is open,” Edebiri exclusively told Us Weekly in January 2023. “But if it were, there would need to be, like, two seasons where it’s just them doing therapy individually before that would even be an option.”
Edebiri clarified that she and White didn’t initially plan to explore their characters as a couple. “I think when we were making it, neither of us were thinking about that,” she added at the time. “It did feel really nice to get to do something that felt different. There aren’t that many platonic male [and] female relationships.”
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Creator Christopher Storer also weighed in on the show’s decision to zero in on the coworkers. “We wanted to make something that was about friendship and a partnership,” he told Variety that same month. “It really is so funny that that is one of the things that people took away — of all the heavy s–t that’s going on in the show! It was interesting because Ayo and Jeremy, since they are our friends and are such wonderful people, I think there is this charisma that comes off both of them.”
Storer added: “From the beginning, it was like, ‘We should just show people being really good at their jobs and pushing each other.’ Selfishly, I hadn’t seen a show without a romantic plot and was like, ‘That could be kind of cool and interesting.’”
The Bear is streaming on Hulu.
