![]() It became this thing that took on a shape through the editorial process, like a documentary. We were out in Austin and Atlanta, cooking with other people who I knew liked to cook - Gwyneth Paltrow and Bill Burr - and other chefs, like David Chang. We have sequences that I filmed when I was going out of town to work on Spider-Man: Homecoming. They loved the authenticity of it, they loved the passion. We ended up doing enough episodes to actually deliver a season, and it turned into a Netflix show. And the next thing you know, I ended up finishing it, just trusting that in this day and age, we‘d find a good partner. I didn’t know if I was going to pitch it somewhere. It was done over the course of three years, and then I would take the footage and just start working on it. But the idea of cooking and sharing an experience with Roy, that was something interesting to me.Īt first I just got cameras and filmed us cooking in different environments with different people. And then there was a lot of talk about, “Hey, do you want to do a sequel?” I didn’t want to do a sequel, because I felt like the story sat the way it should, and I didn’t want to do another movie. After we were done working together and the film came out, we did a lot of promotion and remained friends, but we never really cooked together anymore, because Roy’s busy cooking all day. Jon Favreau: It started off very organically. How did we get from Chef to The Chef Show ? The two friends recently took a break from their busy schedules - Choi just launched an excellent KCET show called Broken Bread, while Favreau is prepping both the Lion King remake and the new Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian - to talk about the origins of The Chef Show and why they wanted to bring this style of old-school cooking demonstration back to television. After the release of Chef, Favreau and Choi collaborated on pop- ups and even toyed with the idea of opening a restaurant, but ultimately decided that having a food TV show would be a great way to keep cooking together. The hosts first met during production of Favreau’s movie Chef, when Choi agreed to work as a culinary consultant on the condition that the star/filmmaker agreed to do everything he said in the kitchen scenes. And although the series includes cameos from an array of famous people - Gwyneth Paltrow! Robert Downey Jr.! Tom Holland! David Chang! - the most memorable moments are found in these kitchen scenes, where Choi and Favreau bring dishes like kimchi fried rice and pasta aglio e olio to life. In every episode, you see these two friends work through every step of their favorite recipes, with running commentary from Choi about the techniques involved. Netflix has released a lot of great food programs over the last few years, but none have been as singularly focused on the act of cooking as The Chef Show, a new series starring Kogi empire builder Roy Choi and actor/writer/director Jon Favreau. ![]()
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