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when meat Creator Lee Sung Jin has finally settled on the premise for the second season of the hit anthology series, and he had one actor in mind – Charles Melton.
Li decided to take matters into his own hands, and called up Gold House founder Bing Chen for a favor. The writer and director asked to sit next to Milton at the dinner they were both attending to honor the actor, so he could show him the second season. “I remember being so flattered because I didn’t know he’d gone so far as to sit next to me,” Melton says. Hollywood Reporter During the second season of the show.
“It was amazing for Lee Seung Jin, Sonny, the creator, to see a picture of my face and say, ‘This is in the writer’s room and we’re writing it for you,’” Melton continues. “I was completely amazed.”
meatSeason 2 leaves the parking lot disputes behind, focusing instead on a couple, one a Millennial (Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan) and one a Gen Z (Milton and Cailee Spaeny), working at a country club in California. The new season follows a Gen Z couple [who] They witness a disturbing battle between their millennial boss and his wife, according to the synopsis.
“Newly engaged Ashley Miller (Spinney) and Austin Davis (Milton), both lower-level employees at a country club, become embroiled in the disintegrating marriage between their general manager, Joshua Martin (Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane Martin (Mulligan).”
Milton says he and Lee “really got to know each other” over the course of season two. “One of the many great things about Sonny as a collaborator, as a filmmaker, is that he creates a lot of space,” Milton says. “There’s just the vulnerability of trust.” “Sometimes we would talk on the phone, I promise you that, more than 60 hours, in just one week.”
Isaac and Mulligan also say they will spend several hours a week talking with Lee about the show. “My Oura ren says I’ve gotten an average of four hours of sleep over the last two years,” Lee joked. “So it comes at a cost.”
Similar to the genesis of the first season, Lee was inspired by a real-life event for the central beef of the second season, which came about after reviewing several ideas for what the premise of the final installment could be. “This shows that real life is more interesting than anything my writer’s mind can come up with,” Lee says.
The writer says he heard a real-life “heated discussion” coming from the couple’s home in his neighborhood. As he relayed what he heard, he realized one key difference in how generations reacted to the tale. “I found that my younger teammates were very similar to Ashley and Austin [asking]“Did you call the police?” he says. “My classmates who were the same age or older would say, ‘Yes, this is big.’”
“I just thought, ‘Oh, this is a show,'” he adds. Lee says he hasn’t seen anything that combines young love with older love since. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?And he felt that television and film tended to examine only one couple.
“Then as we research, we find that the passage of time becomes a bigger theme, and you actually have four Russian doll couples that show the four seasons of life,” the creator explains. “I think in the end, it became a meditation [the idea that] Stages of life come to everyone, and what will you do at the end of them?
