A real chef trained the movie chefSourced
Nicolas Cage took cooking lessons for a chef role.
For the 2021 film Pig, two Portland chefs trained Cage to portray a Portland chef. One was Gabriel Rucker, who runs restaurants in the city.
The hands on screen had teachers from a real kitchen.
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