#sydney adumu

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THE BEAR S01E04 & S02E09

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Voice claims for Cinderella boy (I will add on once we meet other characters) this is just how I hear them lol

Chase: Jeremy Jordan (Varian, Tangled the series)

Deacon: Josh Brener (Donatello, ROTTMNT)

Buddy: James Franco (Fox, Little Prince)

Prunella: Claire Corlett (Sweetie Belle, MLP)

Grandpa Ralph: Clancy Brown (Hank Anderson, Detroit: Become Human)

Prunellas mom: Kimberly Brooks (Princess Alura, Voltron 2016)

Silver: Linda Cardellini (Lylla, GOTG 3)

Bronze: Brian Bloom (Varric, Dragon age 2)

Goldie: Matt Berry (Steven Toast, Toast of London)

Violet: Scarlett Johansson (Natasha, Black Widow)

Simon: Behzad Dabu (Lilac Cookie, Cookie run)

Sunny: Ayo Edebiri (Sydney Adumu, The Bear)

David: Tunde Adebimpe (Banana Gaurd 16, Adventure time)

Lady Lovacorn: Cherami Leigh (Irelia, LOL)

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I believe in Sydney Adumu SUPREMACY

Thinking this morning about Sydney Adamu, as one does. I mean, look at her, for a start.

I feel like I’ve focused more on Carmy in dissecting the show, and am realizing that that’s maybe because Sydney hits closer to home for me.

From about 2010-2015 I was a baker. I started working out of a friend’s cafe kitchen after hours, selling at farmers markets. I graduated to having my own trailer kitchen, parked out in front of my parents’ house, and then I got the opportunity to go in with a couple of friends and open a brick and mortar shop.

It was…hard. The hardest I’ve ever worked. It was 12-18 hour days, most days. I took home $1000 a month to live on. I moved back in with my parents. My feet hurt so much I was worried I’d permanently damaged them. I was always sticky with sugar and sweat. I think people who have never worked food service, or even only worked it part time, have no idea how emotionally and physically draining it is to do it all day, every day.

And then it closed, as food businesses regularly do, and that was that. There are still leftover bits and bobs from the business in my parents’ house. I feel like I’m constantly turning up something new every time I visit. And so watching Sheridan…the moment when we see the catering company boxes in Sydney’s room hit me like a ton of bricks.

Because I know exactly how that feels, waking up in your childhood bedroom and then seeing the detritus of the life you were trying to build, the future you had a vision for. You pour so much of yourself, body and soul, into an industry that will never thank you for it by making your life easier, but will just keep piling on more work.

I understand Syd’s dad not wanting her to go through that again. My bakery closing was devastating, but the work that went into it first was almost just as crushing, and the payout non-existent. He watched her struggle and sweat and not have any time or energy for anything else in her life for however long Sheridan Road ran, and then he watched that dream shatter and his little girl move back in with him with a stack of boxes. And now she wants to do it again, but with much higher overheads, and some white guy he’s never met? It would be strange if he wasn’t scared for her.

But it makes sense of why Sydney isn’t scared off by the Beef. She’s been in the trenches. She knows all the sad, bleak realities of the business. But the Beef gives her what she didn’t have before— a brick and mortar location, and a partner. It’s no wonder to me that she clung on tight, because I did the same when I got the chance. It’s no wonder she bristled at Carmy having creative control, when she was used to having it herself and wanted it more than anything, wanted it enough to give up working at some of the best restaurants in the US to have a chance at it.

Anyway I don’t have a larger point here, except to say that I see her and her dream, and the fact that she’s still standing and trying to make it in this industry is a testament to her strength. I see people not get that, and I just want to say from the bottom of my heart that I do. And I’m rooting for her.