The actor Jon Favreau had to train to play chef Carl Casper in a realistic way in “Chef” 2014 movie he starred in, wrote and directed. All this preparation gave rise to a cooking program with favreu: “The Chef Show”.
In the feature plot, a renowned chef of Los Angeles receives a negative assessment from a specialized critic, who leads him to reflect on the work and realize that he does not have the freedom he would like in the kitchen. With the help of family and friends, he opens a homemade food truck in the city where he started his career: Miami.
Besides favreau, names like Robert Downey Jr. (“Iron Man” and “Oppenheimer”), Scarlett Johansson (“Meetings and mismatches” and “Lucy”), Dustin Hoffman (“Rain Man” and “The First Night of a Man”) and Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family” and “Griselda”) make up the cast.
The actor’s training for the role – which was praised by gastronomic professionals – made him launch his own cooking program at Netflix, “The Chef Show”, which has four seasons.
In the program, Jon Favreau and chef Roy Choi-responsible for training him at the time of “chef”-explore different recipes and receive several famous guests such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Seth Rogen, Tom Holland and others.
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This content was originally published in “Chef”: film gave rise to the cooking program with Jon Favreau on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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