{"id":745197,"date":"2026-07-05T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/745197\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:38:10","slug":"the-bears-liza-colon-zayas-learned-dreams-have-no-expiration-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/745197\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Bear’s Liza Col\u00f3n-Zayas Learned Dreams Have “No Expiration Date”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter working her final shift on The Bear<\/a>, Liza Col\u00f3n-Zayas<\/a> has taken with her a fresh outlook at her onscreen career.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Emmy winner recently explained that she\u2019s \u201ca lot like\u201d her character Tina Marrero, who finds her calling as a line cook at the eponymous eatery in the FX on Hulu<\/a> series, which released its fifth and final season last month.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGoing through this journey, [I recognized] there\u2019s no expiration date on realizing my dream as an actor and owning what talents and skills I have and feeling good about it,\u201d Col\u00f3n-Zayas told People<\/a>. \u201cI personally have learned a lot about that from playing Tina.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCol\u00f3n-Zayas previously spoke to Deadline about bidding farewell to the character of Tina and the inspiration she\u2019s given fans<\/a> who are embarking on their own new chapters in life, having previously won her first Emmy for the performance at age 52.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI guess, as a struggling actor for so long, it\u2019s just fresh in me,\u201d she explained. \u201cEven at this point, even having an Emmy, the struggle will always be right in front of me. It\u2019ll always be so fresh. So I think that it was easy for me to tap into and have that empathy for Tina when she\u2019s job searching, and then when she finally lands at The Bear and finds her fit with these guys. When we\u2019re dealing with such traumatic changes \u2014 job loss, the grief of losing somebody you love \u2014 it could be so overwhelming that it can harden you. I think that that\u2019s where we see Tina at in Season 1. She\u2019s hardened, and these two young people from culinary school, Carmy and Sydney, threaten more loss in this family. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Liza<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tLiza Col\u00f3n-Zayas as Tina in \u2018The Bear\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of FX Networks<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo I think that, as we struggle, we can feel like, \u2018Am I fooling myself? The universe is trying to tell me that this isn\u2019t for me, and that maybe it\u2019s time to get real.\u2019 So I felt that as an actor, and I hope that what people see in Tina is what they see happening to me now in life,\u201d added Col\u00f3n-Zayas.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet during one last service, the fifth and final season of The Bear picks up the morning after Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Natalie \u2018Sugar\u2019 (Abby Elliott) discover that Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) has quit the food industry, leaving the restaurant to them. With no money, the threat of a sale and a torrential storm in their way, the new partners must band together with the rest of the team to achieve one last service, hoping they\u2019ll finally earn a Michelin star. Ultimately, they learn that what makes a restaurant \u201cperfect\u201d might not be the food, but the people.<\/p>\n