Carey Mulligan Teases ‘Completely New’ Story in Beef Season 2

Carey Mulligan reveals that Beef season 2 will look different from the Emmy-winning first season.

The Promising Young Woman star told Variety at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 27, that filming for the Netflix comedy-drama series “just started.”

The 39-year-old Oscar nominee said that “almost everything [is different]” in the upcoming season. “But it’s still [creator Lee Sung Jin] being brilliant.” 

“It’s a completely new story and if I say anything else then a laser beam will appear on my head,” she joked. “But it’s very exciting.”

The new season will feature Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, Minari‘s Youn Yuh-jung and Parasite‘s Song Kang-Ho.

The new season of Beef will chronicle a young couple witnessing “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,” according to an official synopsis.

“It’s some of the best stuff I’ve ever read … I’m very excited,” Melton said of the season 2 script, per a VMAN August 2024 issue.

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Creator Jin revealed to The Hollywood Reporter after the Emmys that he had been “constantly writing stuff down” for a potential season 2. 

“I think Beef will just by its title always have [conflict] simmering underneath,” he explained in January 2024. “But in terms of what the other layers could be, that’s something that I’d really need to take some time and see deep inside what wants to come out.”

The series went on to score eight Emmy wins that evening. Beef’s leading stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong took home trophies, as well as Jin for writing, directing and overall outstanding limited or anthology series.

Throughout the 2023-2024 awards season, the series became the most recognized and award-winning anthology series. It also earned four Critics Choice Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Gotham Awards, two Film Independent Spirit Awards, two SAG Awards, in addition to PGA (Producers Guild Association), WGA (Writers Guild of America) and AFI Honors.

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Season 1 of Beef is available to stream on Netflix. A release date for season 2 has not been announced.