“These are incredible weeks for me,” admitted Jeremy Allen White when he took the stage at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on January 15 to accept the Emmy for Outstanding Lead in a Comedy Series.
Within days, The Bear's doleful, disheveled chef had raised a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Award.
Meanwhile, TV, magazines and websites all over the world were filled with images of him in Calvin Klein boxers.
Los Angeles, where he moved from Brooklyn, is full of blow-ups of him in a deshabillé or in an apron and white t-shirt, while the paparazzi track him down with his new girlfriend, the Spanish singer Rosalía, and he prepares to leave for Chicago to filming the third season of the most awarded series of the awards season.
In this lucky moment for the former Shameless Lip, The Warriors - The Iron Claw, a feature film written and directed by Sean Durkin, arrives from February 1st with Eagle Pictures.
The film, produced by A24 (which however did little to push it for the Oscars), follows the true story of the Von Erich wrestling dynasty, the Texan family that graced the rings around the world in the early 1980s.
Dominated by their controlling father Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany), brothers Kevin (Zac Efron), Kerry (White), David (Harris Dickinson) and Mike (Stanley Simons) rise and fall from the top of world wrestling while dealing with heartbreaking family dramas .
"They are heroes of a Greek tragedy. The Von Erichs' was a sporting and human parable that has persecuted me since I was a shy and silent child, an avid wrestling fan", says the director in the press conference.
“It's incredible how much pain has befallen one family. That's what made me accept the role of Kerry,” explains White. “I found her trajectory moving, from feeling on top of the world to seeing everything fall apart. a movie about wrestling. It's a movie about family, about the distorted and oppressive love that sometimes brings with it, and about brotherhood."
"We started training with weights, high-protein lunches and ice baths months before filming began - continues White -. Chavo Guerrero, a professional wrestler, taught us how to fight. The beauty of this job is immersing yourself in completely different areas. physical preparation was very hard, but so was working alongside important chefs. Both sectors are extremely competitive and driven by anxiety. But in my opinion, nothing is as stressful as cooking, not even the ring."
The preparation wasn't just physical (complaining about Zac Efron's exclusion from the Oscars, Variety compared his transformation to that of De Niro in Raging Bull).
"We watched hours of videos from the time, of meetings and interviews. One was the key to building the character: after a tragic motorbike accident, Kerry gives a press conference in the hospital, with his father by his side, and repeats: ' I'm fine, everything's fine', but his eyes tell something else, fear and pain."
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