Carey Mulligan calls Beef season 2 brilliant: We just started filming
Carey Mulligan revealed during the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance that it has “just started” filming the second season of the Netflix series “Beef.” The first season won Emmys for leads Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, so expectations for the new episodes are high. The show’s second season will feature a new storyline and an all-new cast, starring Mulligan, Oscar Isaac (with whom she starred in Coen Bros.’ “Inside LLewyn Davis”), Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny.
“We’re just getting started. Almost everything [is different]Mulligan said Variety Tatiana Siegel when asked about the new season. ‘But it’s still true [creator Lee Sung Jin] be brilliant. It’s a completely new story and if I say anything else, a laser beam appears on my head. But it is very exciting.”
Another project Mulligan can’t talk about is Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights,’ starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. Mulligan earned an Oscar nomination for directing Fennell’s feature debut “Promising Young Woman,” after which he had a memorable supporting role in the director’s follow-up film “Saltburn.” But a third collaboration will have to wait for now, as Mulligan confirmed Variety she is not joining the cast of “Wuthering Heights.”
‘Not on this one. She’s shooting right now,” Mulligan said. “But hopefully all of them [Fennell’s films] in the future. I would love that.
Netflix confirmed last fall that it was officially moving forward with a second season of “Beef.” The official logline for the new season reads: “A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering moves of favor and coercion in the elite world of a country club and a Korean billionaire owner.” Season 2 of “Beef” will consist of eight 30-minute episodes.
Mulligan is at Sundance this year with her supporting role in “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” directed by James Griffiths from a script by Tom Basden and Tim Key. The film centers on an eccentric lottery winner who invites his two favorite musicians to a private show on his remote island. They agree, much to his surprise. The film is a feature adaptation of the short film ‘The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island’, which won the Best Short Film Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2008.
“I was so excited to be invited into the world of this crazy trio based on the short film, which is so brilliant,” Mulligan said of signing on to the indie. “I just wanted to participate in something that is good to put out into the world and that is just beautiful and wonderful. It is necessary to have something fun. It was so brilliantly written and the music was so beautiful.”
Focus Features releases “The Ballad of Wallis Island” in theaters on March 28, following its world premiere at Sundance.
