Evan Peters Reacts to 'The Beauty' Season 1 Cliffhanger Ending & What That Means for Season 2
Season one of Ryan Murphy‘s show The Beauty has come to an end and there was a shocking cliffhanger in the last few seconds of the finale episode.
Evan Peters is opening up about what that moment means for the potential second season of the FX on Hulu series.
The Beauty centers around a sexually-transmitted disease that makes its carriers beautiful before suffering gruesome deaths — sending the world of high fashion into crisis mode. Evan stars as Cooper Madsen, an FBI agent investigating the deaths linked to “The Beauty.”
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SPOILER ALERT!
In the finale, The Beauty has now become available for the public amid Madsen and his team’s attempt to stop the distribution of the drug.
Madsen transformed into a 12-year-old boy after taking the drug and now there is an antidote that will hopefully reverse the effects of the drug. Even though they don’t know what the antidote will do, Madsen is the first to take it, in hopes of being returned to his true form.
The finale sees Madsen emerging from the transformation cocoon as his team – Jordan (Jessica Alexander), Antonio (Anthony Ramos), and Jeremy (Jeremy Pope) – look on in shock at what they’re seeing.
We don’t actually get to see what he looks like… so we’ll have to hope a second season happens.
“What’s happening next? I don’t know either. I’m curious to see,” Evan told TheWrap. “The comic book series [that the show is based on] takes place after The Beauty has been out in the world for a while, so this is kind of an origin story.”
“I’m very excited for Cooper, whether it’s me or somebody else [in the role], to go out there and see how the world has changed with a lot of population getting it,” he added.
While speaking with THR, Evan was asked if it was always the plan to end the season on that cliffhanger. He responded, ” I honestly don’t know. We didn’t know until we got those scripts midway through. So I think Ryan and the writers were developing that idea as they went along, and then settled on it. But it sets it up for season two. The episodes are very short and generally end on a cliffhanger. You really want to know what’s happening, so it makes you want to binge it. Personally, I really want to know what season two looks like. What the world looks like with The Beauty everywhere now, and people getting it on purpose and what that feels like. I think it sets it up for that nicely.”
Director Michael Uppendahl opened up to Variety about shooting that scene with the actors.
“When we were shooting the scene, I would be walking them through it and I told the actors that he comes out and he appears as different people to get their reactions,” he said. “At one point, I told him it was Shaquille O’Neal. I don’t think that’s probably the case, but you never know!”
Did you know that one of the show’s main stars exited the series after two episodes?