Jeremy Allen White reacts to viral meme from ‘The Bear’
The bear Fans can thank a little organic marketing for their favorite television series for a fourth season.
During the episode of Thursday of The Tonight ShowThe star of the FX / Hulu series, Jeremy Allen White, reacted to several memes viral centered on him and to the successful television program, which he has credited so that fans watch the program.
The X post in question was written by journalist Alex Zaragoza on June 23, 2022, the same day the eight episodes of The bear Season 1 was created. “I am too frightened to watch the bear because I am actively in therapy to stop falling in love with men who look like this,” said Zaragoza alongside a white as a “Carmy” Berzatto in the series.
Zaragoza’s position has won more than 36,000 likes and 3,500 quotes and republication. In a follow -up article, she added: “By falling in love, I mean wasting my time.”
“Oh guy, I think she is responsible for the success of the show, to be honest,” White told Fallon and the public who laughs. “This one went a lot at the start. It was really good marketing.”
The appreciation of the Internet for White also led him to play in the campaign of Calvin Klein Spring 2024 – with images which have also become viral.
“He broke the Internet,” Fallon told a blushing white. When he was asked how he thought of seeing his announcement on a New York display panel, White noted that as a native of Brooklyn, he is “familiar” with the display panel and seeing him be filled by the Calvin Klein models “for decades now”.
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“When it went up, it was like January 3 or something like that. And I went with my best friend to grow, Gabriel Gomez, and we got there,” he recalls. “It was before he was on Instagram, it was before he was online. It was fresh for, like, perhaps like 30 minutes or an hour. And that was, like, very beautiful, as, a private moment that I had with myself.”
And, as Fallon could not resist emphasizing this, it was “before the whole world knows it, you know – their private moments with you. Before the world has their private moments with you, you had your own private moment.”
White has also briefly discussed his next project: describing Bruce Springsteen in the biopic Lice me from nowhere.
The trailer fell on June 18, giving fans their first preview of the film after Springsteen’s efforts to write and produce the 1982 album Nebraska, who emerged in the aftermath of the registration Born in the United States With the street group E.
“It was so much pressure on it,” the actor told Fallon. “You play a real person – Nevermind Bruce Springsteen – and I was really touched [when] The trailer is out. I had more texts than when I blacked myself and I won this Golden Globe [for The Bear]. “”
“I did not know that the trailers were so large,” he added.
The film, which is written and directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy heart, black mass), is based on Warren Zanes’ novel 2023 of the same name. The shooting will mainly take place in New Jersey and New York, with an additional production which takes place in Los Angeles.
During the April Cinemacon, White described the film like, “[a] Central moment in the life of Bruce who finds it difficult to reconcile the ghosts of his culminating past in his 1982 album. “
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While White could still have his nerves, he has the cachet of approval of the boss himself.
“He sings very well,” said Springsteen to Jim Rotolo from Siriusxm. “It’s a huge casting of people. They beautifully threw the film, so it’s very exciting. Jeremy is such a great actor that you fall.
LIT ME DE NOLLYWho will be released in theaters on October 24, also features Jeremy Strong in the role of Jon Landau, a musical critic who became producer and manager of Springsteen; Paul Walter Hauser as Mike Batlan, who helped Springsteen install a recording configuration in low technology in his New Jersey room; Marc Maron like Chuck Plotkin, the producer who mastered the singer Nebraska recordings; and Stephen Graham (Adolescence) As Springsteen’s father, Douglas.
Watch White’s full interview with Fallon in the video above.