As fans anticipate the arrival of Beef season two, more good news has emerged. Per Deadline, Mikaela Hoover (Love Hard, Guardians of the Galaxy), Rapper BM (Oh NaNa, Cake), Seoyeon Jang (Butterfly, Doctor Lawyer) and William Fichtner (Prison Break, The Neighbor) are being added to the cast for its upcoming season.
The four will be joining Charles Melton (Riverdale, The Sun Is Also a Star), Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, The Great Gatsby), Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla, The First Lady), Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Song Kang-Ho (Parasite, Memories of Murder) and Youn Yuh-jung (Youn’s Kitchen, Keys to the Heart) for the second season. The first season of Beef starred Ali Wong (Always Be My Maybe, Fresh Off the Boat) and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Invincible), which won plenty of awards, including four Critics Choice trophies, eight Emmys, two Film Independent Spirit Awards, two Gotham Awards, three Golden Globes, two SAG Awards and AFI, PGA and WGA Honors.
Deadline states that the characters’ information has not yet been revealed. However, a few theories are mentioned, such as BM’s character, who is speculated to be a former tennis player who now owns a tennis shop at a country club. Another is Jang, who may portray the personal translator of the tennis shop owner, and Fichtner and Hoover, who may play husband and wife as the wealthy breadwinner, and his trophy wife, who are also country club members.
The official synopsis via Netflix is as follows: “A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.”
Season two of Beef will have eight episodes that are 30 minutes long, as noted by Deadline. The series’ creator, executive producer and showrunner is Lee Sung Jin (I Am the King, Stand by Me). The studio of the comedy-drama television series is A24. Joining Jin in executive producing are Issac, Melton, Mulligan, Spaeny, Wong, Yeun, Anna Ouyang Moench (Severance), Ethan Kuperberg (The Shrink Next Door, Transparent), Jake Schreier (Paper Towns, Robot & Frank) and Kitao Sakurai (Street Fighter, The Passage).