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 of the Beef 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) and 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 been revealed yet. However, there are a few theories mentioned such as BM playing a former tennis player turned into a country club tennis shop owner, Jang portraying personal translator of the tennis shop owner and Fichtner and Hoover playing husband and wife as the wealthy breadwinner and his trophy wife. Both are 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 be having eight episodes that are 30 minutes long, as noted by Deadline. The creator, executive producer and showrunner of the series 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 is Issac, Melton, Mulligan, Spaeny, Wong, Yeun, Anna Ouyang Moench (Severance), Ethan Kuperberg (The Shrink Next Door, Transparent), Jake Schreir (Paper Towns, Robot & Frank) and Kitao Sakuri (Street Fighter, The Passage).