Get to Know 'The Bear' Breakout Star Jeremy Allen White

Have you been bingeing "The Bear?"

All eight episodes of the drama's first season hit FX on Hulu back on June 23 to critical acclaim (it currently has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes) and it was recently announced that it had been renewed for a second season.

"The Bear" follows Carmy, a young and well-trained chef from the world of fine dining who returns to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop in the wake of a family tragedy. Carmy must balance his new workplace environment, including new coworkers and staff, with his delicate relationships with his family. The show also stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas and Abby Elliott.

The show stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmy, best known for his roles in "Shameless" and "Homecoming" as well as the thriller film "The Rental." Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, White said he wanted his role to feel authentic, revealing he went to cooking school for two weeks and then "worked in several really wonderful restaurants in Los Angeles, Chicago, and in New York."

"It was really amazing – I'd never studied a skill that much for any other job, and it was really great to have months of training to learn about character and learn about Carmy through a skill that he'd also studied," he added.

Of White and his character Carmy, GQ's Gabriella Paiella wrote in an interview piece: "It's this profound regular guyness, albeit with the dirtbag dials turned all the way up, that helps explain the appeal of his character Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto on the runaway FX hit The Bear. White plays a tattooed, tousle-haired chef who, when he's not shouting orders in a frantic kitchen, is dexterously chopping vegetables, manhandling slabs of meat, or staring mournfully with heavy-lidded blue eyes. This performance–hell, even a single screenshot of it–has launched entire discourse cycles."

"What I find attractive in people is a determination. If you're truly good at something, that's incredibly attractive," White told GQ. "I understand people having a crush on Carmy. I think I have a bit of a crush on Carmy."

Earlier in the interview, White acknowledged that the internet is thirsty for him, or as Paiella puts it, "countless people are, as we speak, posting Instagram stories and fancam videos and, God help us, outstandingly unprintable tweets about him."

"I don't have Twitter or anything like that, but we do have a group text for the show and they are making me aware of it," the actor said. "They know me, and they know how embarrassing it is for me."

White also keeps up an active Instagram. Check out some of his posts below.