While I firmly believe When Harry Met Sally is one of the best rom-coms ever made, I don’t agree with Harry’s integral claim that men and women can’t just be friends. Sometimes, when I watch something where a man and a woman are friends, that’s all I want them to be, and that’s the case with Sydney and Carmy on The Bear. Ayo Edebiri agrees with that, too. However, many fans do not, and she recently gave a perfectly logical explanation about why she won’t change her stance.
For years, Ayo Edebiri has been explaining why Sydney and Carmy won’t be together. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, she addressed the topic again. She was asked how she views fans’ desire for her character and Jeremy Allen White’s chef to be more than friends, and in response, she said:
