What connects The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach and poet Simon Armitage?

By a series of cunning connections involving Lena Dunham and Forward prize winner Caleb Femi, we speed all the way from a Chicago diner to the UK poet laureate

Sometimes you suddenly start seeing an actor everywhere, and so it is for Ebon Moss-Bachrach. He’s having a fine year, kicking off with a role in The Dropout, the series about blood-test grifter Elizabeth Holmes. Next, he nearly stole the show as the combustible Richie in The Bear, the unexpectedly gripping drama about a Chicago diner. He also appears in Andor, the latest prestige TV iteration of the Star Wars Cinematic Universe (all three are on Disney+).