The Bear actress Liza Colón-Zayas on learning to play a chef and dealing with fame
But soon, Tina starts paying attention to the good that can come from being open to change.
'I was learning who she was in real time, so I trusted enough that Tina would be imbued with the humanity, with the rationale – it was a matter of me trusting what's on the page,' says Colón-Zayas.
'I try not to judge the characters – and in this world where it's so easy to want to shut down because it's dangerous, the changes that are coming with making people expendable are real in so many communities.
'So I'm glad [Tina] wasn't sanitised and sugar-coated and that we could see like … if we just invest in the people that we traditionally overlook, it could be beneficial for all of us.'
Liza Colón-Zayas in a still from Season 3 of The Bear. Photo: TNS
Colón-Zayas understands Tina personally, having had similar experiences of 'feeling unwanted' throughout her decades-long acting career. Like Tina, Colón-Zayas has also experienced a reinvention of sorts.
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