
Lili Taylor (Mystic Pizza, I Shot Andy Warhol) will be joining the cast of Netflix’s The Beast In Me for its upcoming second season. According to Deadline, Taylor will be a series regular for the psychological crime thriller.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping actor will star alongside Claire Danes (The Beast in Me, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) and John Goodman (The Big Lebowski, The Righteous Gemstones). Danes will be stepping back into her role as author, Aggie Wiggs. Goodman will return as Aggie’s dad, who is suspected to be a con artist. Taylor will join as Fiona, Aggie’s stepmother.
Season one of The Beast in Me, according to Deadline, The Beast in Me centered on the tense relationship between celebrated author Aggie Wiggs, who was struggling with the loss of her young son, and her new neighbor, Nile Jarvis, played by Matthew Rhys (The Wingfeather Saga, The American Revolution), a charismatic but unsettling man suspected of being involved in his first wife’s disappearance. The season concluded with Sheldon being killed in prison, while Aggie began confronting the consequences of her own decisions and ultimately released her first novel titled The Beast in Me.
Netflix has yet to release details about the second season of The Beast in Me.
Gabe Rotter created the series. Howard Gordon (Strange World, The Inside) and Daniel Pearle (One of Us Is Lying, American Crime Story) will continue to be co-showrunners, writers, and executive producers for season two. Antonio Campos (The Devil All the Tim, Marth Marcy May Marlene), director for half of the episodes for season one, Danes, Rotter, Caroline Baron (Witness to the Mob, Michael Jackson’s Ghost), Amy Lippman (The Heart Department, Time of Your Life), Conan O’Brien (Conan O’Brien Must Go, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien), David Kissinger (The Pete Holmes Show, Deon Cole’s Black Box), Jeff Ross (Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride, Planters: The Roast of Mr. Peanut) and Jodie Foster (The Mauritanian, The Brave One). 20th Television is the studio for The Beast in Me.
Taylor is represented by IAG, Untitled Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello.

