{"id":584346,"date":"2026-07-14T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584346\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:32:12","slug":"the-beauty-cast-released-future-of-fx-series-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584346\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Beauty’ Cast Released; Future Of FX Series Unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: The Beauty<\/a> is on pause at FX<\/a>. The options on the cast of Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson\u2019s series, based on a comic book series by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, have lapsed, and the actors are moving onto other projects. That includes leads Evan Peters, who is filming Season 13 of American Horror Story for FX and Murphy, and Rebecca Hall, who is in talks for the female lead<\/a> opposite Morgan Spector in Netflix\u2019s Dan Brown series adaptation The Secret Of Secrets. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Beauty is a global thriller which follows FBI Agents Cooper Madsen (Peters) and Jordan Bennett (Hall) as they investigate a sexually transmitted virus that transforms ordinary people into visions of physical perfection, but with terrifying consequences.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first season ended with a big cliffhanger, in which Cooper emerged from a cocoon after a transformation to a shocked reaction though his appearance was not revealed. <\/p>\n

\n\tBecause of the nature of the show, releasing the cast does not necessarily mean that it cannot continue. In Season 1, after Hall\u2019s character was infected with the virus, Jordan was played by Jessica Alexander. Cooper at one point transformed into a teen, played by Hudson Barry; what he looks like now is unclear. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Ryan Murphy series can go dormant for awhile before being revisited, there are no current plans for Season 2 of The Beauty. A big-budget extravaganza with top talent, extensive visual effects and pricey shoots in iconic locations across Europe, the sci-fi\/body horror series got off to a solid launch in January, especially overseas, but it did not sustain the momentum and was soon overshadowed by the launch of another Ryan Murphy FX series, Love Story, which captured the cultural zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso starring in The Beauty are Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Ramos and Jeremy Pope. Season 1 guest cast included Bella Hadid,\u00a0Isabella Rossellini,\u00a0Ben Platt,\u00a0Jessica Alexander\u00a0and\u00a0Vincent D\u2019Onofrio.<\/p>\n

\n\tCreated and written by Murphy and Hodgson, the series\u00a0is executive produced by Murphy, Hodgson, Peters, Ramos, Pope, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Michael Uppendahl, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Gitter, Peter Schwerin and Haun, who serves as a consultant.\u00a0The Beauty\u00a0is produced by 20th Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The Beauty is on pause at FX. The options on the cast of Ryan Murphy and Matthew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19687,19,17,114937,128],"class_list":["post-584346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-fx","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-the-beauty","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116915755288199021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}