Jeremy Allen White Talks The Bear's New Season & the Role That Got Away, Makes Surprising Revelation About 'High School Musical'

On his love of dance…

“I tap all the time,” Jeremy said, adding that he took dance lessons as a child. “My fellow actors can attest to this … it’s like a nervous tic or something, or some kind of preparation. It really happens when they say, ‘Cut and reset.’ When I’m standing on my mark at reset, it’s like a meditative thing, I’ll do a shuffle as I’m staring at the ground and just shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. And I’ll do it until they say ‘action’ again, and then I snap out of whatever it is and I go back into the scene. I’ve done it for a long time. I’ve had ADs, PAs, fellow actors always ask, ‘What is going on there?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know exactly, but I am tap dancing. I don’t know why I am, but I am.’”

On the new season of The Bear…

“I’ll tell you the truth, which is I think they’ve written a couple scripts. I have not read any,” Jeremy said. However, “I do know in January I’m going to spend a fair amount of time getting together with some chefs.”

He continued, explaining, “There’ll be a menu set, I believe, that’s going to be for the restaurant in the third season. And I know that I’m going to start putting together that menu with different chefs and cooking and just trying to get prepared to do more of that stuff on camera. We all did a lot of preparation before the first season. I went to culinary school and I spent a lot of time in restaurants and stuff. And then, for the second season, so much of it was about putting the restaurant together, so there wasn’t that much cooking. But now, in the third season, I think we’re going to go back to that functioning kitchen atmosphere that we had in the first.”