Jamie Lee Curtis Reiterates Her Claim That The Bear Is Ending with Season 5
Jamie Lee Curtis Reiterates Her Claim That The Bear Is Ending with Season 5
Julia MooreWed, March 4, 2026 at 9:42 PM UTC
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Jamie Lee Curtis (left); Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri in "The Bear" (right)Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage; Chuck Hodes/FX -
The upcoming fifth season of The Bear will be the last season of the show, according to Jamie Lee Curtis
Curtis claimed "everybody knows" the fifth season is the last during a red carpet appearance
Her latest comments comes after a February Instagram post sparked speculation that The Bear could be ending
The Bear is coming to an end, according to Jamie Lee Curtis.
The Oscar award-winning actress first stirred up speculation about the FX show potentially ending in a Feb. 17 Instagram post, and now she's doubling down on her claim that Carmy and the gang's story will conclude with season 5.
"It is the end of the show," Curtis, 67, claimed to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, March 3, when asked about the post. "Everybody knows it's the end of the show."
While no one else from the cast has spoken about the show ending, Curtis said she's "not breaking any news to anybody" as she claimed that season 5 will be the last one. "They've said it from the beginning. It's the end of the show — it's not me announcing any endings of anything."
Curtis has played Donna, mom to Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Sugar (Abby Elliott), since season 2 and has appeared on and off throughout. "It's a great show," she told ET. "I just feel very lucky to have been asked to play Donna."
FX did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
Oliver Platt as Uncle Jimmy, Jaime Lee Curtis as Donna in "The Bear" season 4Credit: FX
In her Instagram post last month, Curtis shared a photo with Elliott, 38, from the show's set as she said they "finished strong."
"Surrounded by an extraordinary crew and group of writers and producers and scene partners on the show that Chris Storer created, completing the story of this extraordinary family that we have all fallen in love with," she wrote. "Got to finish it out with my baby Berzatto bear."
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Curtis won an Emmy for her role on The Bear in 2024, and she said in her acceptance speech, "You know there’s a saying, 'Hurt people, hurt people,' but I also think you can add to that and say, 'Helped people help people,' and I think that’s the story of The Bear."
"It's astonishing that I got this opportunity at this point in my life," she said of the show, as she called it a "beautiful, beautiful, beautiful piece of television" that she's "privileged to be in."
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Her casting as Donna was a product of manifestation in some ways. She made her debut in season 2 in 2023, and wrote on Instagram after the episodes premiered that she'd known from the first season that she was meant to play Donna.
"When I saw the first episode last summer and Sugar asks Carmen if he had spoken to their mother, in that second, I knew that I would play her. Don't ask me how. I just knew," she wrote. "A year later, after the wild success of the brilliant first season, Chris Storer offered me the role of a lifetime."
Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu, Abby Elliott as Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto, and Jeremy Allen White as Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto in "The Bear" season 2Credit: Chuck Hodes/FX
"The center of the brilliant masterpiece that is commonly referred to as @thebearfx is the story of family secrets and the concentric circles of rage and trauma and grief and humor that revolve around Carmen, Sugar and Michael Berzatto," she continued. "There's not a person alive who won't relate to what it feels like to be around someone like Donna Berzatto. I certainly have my own experiences. That's what makes the show so magnificent. We can relate and commiserate and celebrate all of our communal survival in this thing called … life."
"Thank you, Chris and the ENTIRE BEAR family of creative human beings and scene partners for allowing me in to let it rip!" Curtis concluded her post.
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