You’re Telling Me It’s Possible to Be More Beautiful Than Rebecca Hall?

Okay, so this show, The Beauty, is seriously messing with my head. It’s got this weird thing going on where they cast actors who aren’t necessarily the typical Hollywood ‘beautiful’ type, and then, once their character gets infected with this virus that makes everyone insanely attractive, they recast the role with someone conventionally hot. It’s kind of cruel, or maybe it’s a really twisted commentary on the industry – I’m still not sure. Like, they start with Jaquel Spivey, who was amazing in A Strange Loop, playing this really unlikeable guy, and then poof, it’s Jeremy Pope, who is, let’s be honest, ridiculously good-looking. And it’s not just men! Ben Platt, who’s charming as a gossipy Vogue assistant, gets the virus and transforms into Isaac Cole Powell – seriously, this guy has sculpted cheekbones. But it’s not just about making Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors hotter – it’s about changing the standard entirely. Even Rebecca Hall, playing a super stylish FBI agent investigating these bizarre body explosions with Evan Peters (who, bless him, can’t fake a French accent), gets infected after a hookup because dealing with her feelings for Peters is apparently harder than catching a virus. It’s just…a lot.





