Jeremy Allen White Talks Tap Dancing in Between ‘Iron Claw’ Takes, Reveals ‘The Bear’ Season 3 Returns to the ‘Functional Kitchen Atmosphere’
23.12.2023 - 17:35
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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Jeremy Allen White may co-star with Zac Efron in Sean Durkin’s new wrestling drama “The Iron Claw,” but the Emmy-winning “The Bear” actor has something to admit — he has never watched a “High School Musical” movie. “I haven’t seen them,” White says on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. “Sorry, Zac.
I will watch them. I will.” On one condition. “Only if Zac holds my hand throughout,” White cracks.
“That’s how we’ll get it done.” The two have become so close that handholding doesn’t seem so far-fetched. In fact, the day before we sit down for the “JFV” interview, White presented at Efron’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling and then reunited with his co-star again that night at “The Iron Claw” premiere at the DGA in West Hollywood. “The Iron Claw” follows the Von Erich wrestling dynasty.
Lorded over by patriarch Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany), the Von Erich brothers — Kevin (Efron), Kerry (White), David (Harris Dickinson) and Mike (Stanley Simons) — rose to the top of the wresting world while also facing heartbreaking tragedies. The ensemble endured rigorous training for the film, but wrestling wasn’t completely foreign to White. “I wrestled in middle school and a little bit in high school.
It really wasn’t a very big part of my life, but my father had won championships throughout high school, nationals and stuff like that,” he says. “So, it was a big part of my dad’s life. And so, I think maybe I make it a bigger part of my story in my brain than it actually is because it was a big part of my father’s life.
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