‘The Bear’ Star Jeremy Allen White Has a Habit of Tap Dancing on Set

What is Jeremy Allen White’s weirdest onset habit? Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and the ensemble cast of FX’s The Bear all know the answer, and they’re not afraid to announce it in unison on the latest edition of the Vanity Fair Game Show.

White and co. gathered to test how well the cast members of The Bear really know one another. The show’s Emmy-winning lead actor went first, asking Edebiri, Moss-Bachrach, Abby Elliott, Liza Colón Zayas, Matty Matheson, Ricky Staffieri, and Lionel Boyce to name his strangest onset habit. All together, the cast answered “tap dancing”—which was the correct answer.

Let White explain: While he doesn’t necessarily break out tap shoes between takes, he does apparently have a penchant for tapping his toes between setups. The movement can be, and was, described in several different ways: “To me, it’s like you’re in an outside circle of like a breakdance battle,” said Moss Bachrach. White called it more of a shuffle or a two-step. “It’s a nervous tic I have,” White admitted. “I kind of just rock around and tap dance.”

Moss-Bachrach proved to be slightly more unknowable than his onscreen cousin, stumping many in the cast when he asked where he’d love to take them all on vacation. The answer was Sicily, which Matheson came closest to naming—maybe because he was seated close enough to see what his costar and written. “I said Greece first, but then I switched my answer to Italy cause I saw Sicily and I didn’t want to look like I was looking,” Matheson admitted. “Whoever’s sitting in this position can see it all.”

But the least knowable of them all was, surprisingly, Edebiri. No one was able to correctly guess her favorite karaoke songs, leaving the Emmy winner unmoored. “It feels like you know people and you feel like they’re your family,” Edebiri said. “And then you’re just sort of born alone and you die alone.” The answer, by the way? “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush or “Don’t Speak” by No Doubt. It was also crickets when Edebiri challenged the group to name her favorite dessert. Elliott remembered that she hated pie (“I hate pie,” Edebiri repeated for emphasis), but no one was able to guess the right answer until Matheson chimed in with creme brûlée. Despite his previous cheating, Matheson swore that he didn’t see Edebiri write down her answer this time. “Check the tape,” he implored.

Although her castmates had trouble guessing her answers, Edebiri wound up winning the game with eight points, proving that she knows the most about her fellow chefs. She may be Ayo “the Enigma” Edebiri, but now her Bear family now knows better than to save an extra slice of apple pie for her in the future.