Whatever you do, do not ask The Bear cast about Jeremy Allen White’s underwear shoot for Calvin Klein. Seriously! They’re going to giggle with each other about you, then make some totally hilarious joke about their co-star’s tighty-whities, and by the end of the conversation, they’re all going to look 500 times funnier than you are. It’s just not worth it.
This is, unfortunately, exactly what happened at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, which saw big wins from FX on Hulu series, including Best Comedy Series, Best Leading Actor in a Comedy for White, and Best Leading Actress in a Comedy for Ayo Edebiri. After a handful of reporters covering the Globes on the red carpet and behind the scenes asked White’s co-stars about his underwear shoot, his castmates fired back with a handful of sarcastic answers.
It makes sense that everyone wanted to know about the Calvin Klein shoot. The stripped-down video was released just a few days prior to the awards show—could anyone watching say, in full earnest, that they weren’t thinking about White’s abs as he accepted his statuette?