‘The Beer’ star Lisa Cologne-Jayas on the increase of Tina’s season 4

spoiler ALERT: The following includes a spiler for season 4Bear,

“The Beer” used a full episode to give Tina a backstory in her third season, played by Liz Colon-Zayas, a fundamental member of both Beer and Beef. From the title “Napkin”, it was directed by “The Beer” Star Adebiri, and charted Tina’s journey after being closed after 15 years in an office job, where she was reduced to reduced. From there, he experienced a crushed job hunting in Chicago, which was changing in front of his eyes, and finally a hearing ear (and help in hand) in Mickey Burzatto (John Bernthal), who hired him as a line cook after a tear conversation in the beef dining room.

In season 4, each staff member of the beer makes his share to help survive the fine dining space after a negative review in the Chicago Tribune, which already insists in major financial problems. For Tina, this means how long it takes to prepare the pasta dish on the menu and prepare the plate, so that the restaurant can change more guests every night and change the table around the seat. During the season, she is disappointed by herself about her speed, but reaches many colleagues for strategies and advice – a sign of vulnerability and development, as what we met in season 1 was stubborn and unable to ask for help. Eventually, she learns to defeat the clock.

Talked with Colón-Zayas Diversity Regarding Tina’s story in season 4, and how intimately she belongs to character. During the interview, she uses the word “I” to talk about Tina, and she comments on how she and the Sous Chef are similar. Even when asked about the potential end of “The Bear”, Colon-Jayas does not distinguish the effect of restaurant on his character from the influence of the show on his life as an actor. Read the perspective of Cologne-Jayas on Tina’s visit-Amy earned Amy after season 2.

Your character got a lot of depth in the previous season with “napkin”. We got to learn Tina’s marriage, her financial struggles and her relationship with Mickey. How was it to come back to Tina in season 4 with that new knowledge?

We are building on it. When we left at the end of season 3, it was the major intersection with that review, and so even though I am performing my best, it’s about Tina that it is taking personal responsibility to level everyone else – while still trying to stay there to help everyone. as a family. As a unit, it to survive together.

Tina’s arc focuses on her struggle to fire the pasta dish in this season, which she is in charge within three minutes as she has been asked to do. It feels that the small, more educated, fast working with the chef are bound by intimidation felt in the previous season.

In this season, I realized that they were not enemies. These people are not trying to trap me. We are all together, so now my walls have gone down, and I am able to accept help and guidance and response, because I know that I am safe. We all want what is best for each other and for this restaurant. So we accept this huge change while accepting me. It is not about ego; It is not about pushing out; They really believe what I have to do so. I am part of the team that can get Michelin Star. This is expected. I am trying my best not to have a weak link. And the way they are my back, I am now their back.

It is interesting how much you talk about him in the first person. It seems that he is very close to you.

Oh wow. I did not realize that I was doing it. I really feel like i Know This character individually. I understand how it feels that it is fighting for your life, and to feel irrelevant, and then a second chance must be given, and a third chance and a fourth when you expect at least expect that you are worth it, or when you can think that you are not eligible.

It is also visible in Tina’s domestic life. In one scene, she works to talk about a “stupid” fight with her husband, and says that she apologized because someone had to do it. It is very different from Hothed Tina found in season 1, which will never return. What is motivating him at that moment? Is she beaten by restaurant stress, or is she getting emotionally more secure and removing her ego?

The review is out, the clock is ticking and Tina knows: what is good to put energy into something that is not helping you get through the day and can be elevated? I have to compartmental. I should not always be right. I don’t think it’s about feeling beaten. This is personal development.

How and how do you think his work life with Carmi and Sydney can affect his domestic life?

I will mention “napkin”, when we see Tina has always shown love by feeding her family. I think they are interconnected. I don’t know if they are two different things. This is also his family. They have been in each other’s life for six years? This is the expansion of his family. I think my home family knows that, and they are witness to improvement that I am making in life, and how it has strengthened me and strengthened me again. There is saying: How do you do a thing how you do everything. So I think it is all connected.

Tell me that Tina has interacted with Luka in the episode 8, where he says that even though the pressure to work in the kitchen is heavy, after all, she realized that he could not live without it. After that, he is finally able to finish his pasta dish on time. Why do you think the conversation affects him so much?

I think this is because I can be under the notion that everyone else is so better that everyone else has got it too much. So he recognizes – and therefore the carmi does, and so sides – they recognize that I need to remind me that it is a repeat. This is development. It is part of the journey. Nobody started this. He had his own “Slow Pasta” story. It helps when I hear that these other characters and they believe in me.

I tell the actors that when you respect people – who have a track record, and those who really respect the work – listen to them. Believe them Most of the time, they have nothing to achieve by misleading you. So I think the same thing applies here for Tina in the kitchen.

The end of season 4 is the title “Goodbye”. The episode seems to be the end of the show, but it definitely leaves the door open for more. What do you think?

I do not know I am not really. We don’t know. We do not know the change in strategy – leaving behind the need to pull anarchy with the carmi, and stick with stability – how it can affect the word of the mouth, which anyone is coming in. Perhaps this is Hale Mary. I do not know honestly. Is there any Ola Mary who can come so far that the clock has reached zero? I do not know I do not want to finish it.

If this is the end of the show, how will you feel how to wrap things for Tina?

I think she will be destroyed, as it is not just about a job. When she went into beef in “napkin”, it was just about a job and was taking any job. But I don’t think it’s just about this job. Now it is much bigger than that. The show is very high about mourning and disadvantages, and is moving forward. So I think she will land on her feet. But this is going to be personally difficult.

And what about you personally? If this is the end of the show, how will you feel?

I have already cried many times. I love my work. I do not want to finish it. But what I love and respect about it maintains truth and integrity and perhaps it is reality that big, better restaurants have not been able to face all the challenges of you, which know all these things, rising prices, covid, all these things.

This interview has been edited and condensed.