WIll Poulter Trades His Adam Warlock Cape for an Apron in The Bear Season 2

The following account incorporates light spoilers for Season 2, Episode 4 of The Indulge in, “Sundae.”

WHILE THE breakthrough first season of The Indulge in was all about getting to know our Chicago-essentially essentially based characters and the problem they safe themselves in—getting their bearings collectively as they contend with a sandwich shop afloat and take into memoir its ability future—Season 2 takes paunchy advantage of the growth made and pulls the microscope again a miniature. The season’s predominant throughline specializes in Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and the team within the lead-up to their restaurant’s relaunch as The Indulge in (fka: The Pork), a stunning eating establishment. And in doing so, we derive to seem some supporting characters lift out varied issues, worship attending culinary college, and, in Marcus’ (Lionel Boyce) case, hover out to Copenhagen to learn to enjoy some in actuality awesome cakes.

Marcus spent Season 1 making a banging chocolate cake and making an strive to very finest his donut recipe. But with the stunning eating that The Indulge in aspires to, Carmy and Syd (Ayo Edebiri) mediate to send him out to Carmy’s contact in Copenhagen to in actuality derive a address on something contemporary and engaging. The tattooed, amazingly haired, Copenhagen pastry chef model of Carmy turns out to be an English-born dude named Luca, played by the one-and-handiest Will Poulter, contemporary off his Emmy-nominated role in Hulu’s Dopesick and his scene-stealing superhero introduction as Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

Poulter’s Luca is varied from either of those contemporary roles. In The Indulge in, Luca stands to tag Marcus (and, by proxy, the viewers)—who we learn in this episode was a frequent patron of The Pork who labored at McDonald’s and merely walked in a single day and got a job, in actuality, because the shop’s baker—that there are varied ways to educate, and learn, in a kitchen. Luca is a severe particular person, but Poulter portrays his charming multitudes effectively; he corrects, is priceless, and explains issues to Marcus in a potential that is every kind and respectful. It be a consuming contrast to the steadily-brash manner that Carmy can steadily rating, and even stands as a foil to the heat relationship that Syd and Marcus rating.

For somebody who’s in actuality green within the meals commerce (he mentions that he’s handiest been doing what he does for a year and a half), or now not it is necessary that Marcus learn that issues are likely to be now not handiest performed one manner. And discovering out from Luca, who’s been a chef for 14+ years, is a large manner to seem him lift out that. We search them making a tall different of dishes right thru the episode, and while Marcus is continually eager, announcing issues sound huge and style huge, all we derive out of Luca is light praise (“It be dish”) or a bashful smile when he tells Marcus one dessert is worship a “Minty Snickers Bar.” We’re going to chime in on that one: yum.

“Was it worth it?” Marcus asks Luca in a single of their final moments. “Question me day after nowadays,” Luca tells him, unwilling to admit that his years of service and craft-constructing, something that has a minimal of made him into somebody folks hurry thousands of miles internationally to learn from, has made him a hit. He suggests looking ahead to day after nowadays because in this world of meals, ambition, and backbone, something being “worth it” is being complacent—there’s constantly something more, and something better, appropriate on the horizon. It be waiting day after nowadays.

And we search Marcus’ day after nowadays, after Luca planted the seed in his mind. Making an strive more meals, taking half within the sights and vibes of Copenhagen, till dusk hits and he finds a man in ache; he’s stuck below a fence, bloodied after a bike accident. The man speaks no english, but Marcus is rapidly to leap into action to derive him again on his ft. What plays out here is worship a scene from a surrealist movie (for my piece, 2021’s Titane came to mind): the injured man got up, gave Marcus a huge tall hug—one in a position to breaking any language barrier—and got again on his bike and went on his manner.

This moment made as miniature sense to Marcus as it did to us. But worship Luca urged him the night sooner than, or now not it is the oldsters, and the recollections, and appropriate being start that enjoy all of this worth it. Marcus might well per chance per chance also now not ever know what precisely was occurring there. But it certainly’s something he’ll undergo in mind for the rest of his lifestyles when he thinks about Copenhagen—and when he makes the cakes inspired by his time with Luca.