EXCLUSIVE: When Beef creator and EP Lee Sung Jin accepted the umpteenth award for the limited series at yesterday’s Spirit Awards, he said he underestimated the enjoyment of the dopamine that comes with winning, and that he will miss it.
Maybe not. The Dish hears that he is circling cast for a second season of the Netflix A24 show, and he’s got some beefcake thesps circling. We hear that the storyline this time will revolve around two feuding couples. May December revelation Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny (a revelation in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla) are being courted to play one of the couples. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway are the names we hear. Latter meshed nicely in the Ed Zwick-directed Love & Other Drugs. Admittedly, this is early, and no deals are in place, but we understand a limited season’s worth of scripts were just turned in or are about to be, and that Netflix and A24 are ready to get the second season into production by late summer or fall. Word of all this was circulating in chatter at the weekend’s award shows — Beef won at both the Spirits and the Producers Guild Awards.
Beef has been picking up awards left and right, including eight Prime Time Emmys, one for Outstanding Limited Series or Anthology Series, and trophies for Ali Wong and Steven Yuen, and Jin for writing and directing. Stay tuned.
