![]() ![]() He really became a part of it."īut there's a big difference between being part of Roy Choi's team of cooks and playing a head chef onscreen. "Just to see where his mind and his situation and his abilities were and how interested he was in these things. I threw him a couple tests, like a case of chives, or a case of onions, or peel two cases of avocados," Choi said. "I brought him into the kitchen, and he just kind of fit in. Soon after, Choi sent the actor to a week of intensive French culinary schooling, where Favreau sharpened his knife skills and learned how to make the "mother sauces": the five sauces crucial to fine cuisine, from Auguste Escoffier's classic cookbook "Le Guide Culinaire." I think this was the first time he'd ever stepped behind the line." "Every kitchen I go to you, you pick a random dish, just to test it, just so you have your fingers on every single part of the menu. "He ate like I eat, which is going around each kitchen, tasting, having the cooks fire one dish," Choi said. "So much so that I was worried about meeting him, like, 'Is he going to think that I cribbed this from his life?' It was a six-hour meeting that went from restaurant to restaurant as I followed in his footsteps and watched him."įor his part, Choi said he wasted no time training Favreau to take on the role of a head chef. "His life was uncanny how similar it was to the storyline that I wrote," Favreau said. He decided to hire a culinary consultant for the film, and someone on Favreau's production team suggested he turn to the man who started the food truck craze in L.A.: Roy Choi of Kogi truck fame. More important, Favreau said, he knew he wanted to do it right. I don't know what is was going to be, but I knew I wanted to do something." "I've always loved food, and food is extremely cinematic - like 'Eat, Drink, Man, Woman' or 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' - that I thought I could do really good job doing something with food. "Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I've really been interested in that aspect of culinary culture," Favreau said. In the film, Favreau plays a chef named Carl Casper, who runs the kitchen at one of L.A.'s hottest restaurants. When the city's top food critics reserves a table, Carl decides its time to revamp the menu, but the restaurant's owner (played by Dustin Hoffman) vetoes the idea.Ĭarl's quick temper eventually gets him fired. He then tries to get his culinary groove back by opening up a food truck with the help of his young son. They serve up Cuban sandwiches, and the truck becomes a bit hit with crowds across the country, reminding him why he loves what he does.įavreau, who spoke with Take Two at his office in Venice, explained why he wanted to make a film about people who cook. The two talked with Take Two's Alex Cohen about how they came together on this labor of love. In his latest film, "Chef," writer-director by Jon Favreau collaborated with famed Los Angeles chef and entrepreneur Roy Choi to craft a film about cooking, life and what it means to be an artist. ![]()
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