{"id":2068703,"date":"2025-10-04T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2068703"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:41:18","slug":"tony-shalhoubs-love-of-bread-balanced-out-the-challenges-of-being-himself-in-his-new-celebrity-land-series-breaking-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tony-shalhoubs-love-of-bread-balanced-out-the-challenges-of-being-himself-in-his-new-celebrity-land-series-breaking-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Shalhoub\u2019s love of bread balanced out the challenges of being himself in his new celebrity.land series \u2018Breaking Bread\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Give Tony Shalhoub<\/a> a role playing a character and he\u2019s going to feast on it, but when it comes to showing up as himself, it\u2019s a little bit trickier.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the most difficult thing. That was one of the most startling things about it, was that unscripted is just much harder for me personally,\u201d he told celebrity.land in a recent interview. \u201cIt just came to me that maybe that\u2019s why I became an actor to begin with, is that people just tell me what to do. Just to say this, stand here, make this face.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cMonk\u201d star is hosting a new celebrity.land docuseries, \u201cBreaking Bread,\u201d which will see him embark on \u201ca mouthwatering journey around the world, with bread serving as the conduit into a variety of international cuisines and cultures,\u201d a synopsis described.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ultimate comfort food, bread is the foundation for any shared meal and Shalhoub will make and break bread with a cast of characters he picks up in every corner of the globe from Brazil to Tokyo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shalhoub has wonderful memories connected to bread, which makes him the right man for this particular carb-heavy job.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a kid, there were these two old aunties that were from out of town, but they would come into town and they would go from one relative\u2019s house to another and they would make this beautiful Syrian bread, this flatbread,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThey would take 25, 30 pounds of flour down into the basement where my father had an oven set up down there, and they would have all of this flour and all of this labor flipping the dough by hand with a cigarette in their mouths.\u201d<\/p>\n

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