Rebecca Hall Joins Ryan Murphy’s FX Series ‘The Beauty’

Rebecca Hall has joined the cast of FX‘s The Beauty, Ryan Murphy‘s latest drama series under his Disney deal, Deadline has confirmed. She joins previously cast Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope and Ashton Kutcher.

Co-created, written and exec produced by Murphy and Matt Hodgson, The Beauty is based on the comic books by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley. Per usual for a Ryan Murphy project, no official details about the premise and the characters are provided.

The 2016 graphic novel The Beauty is about an STD that makes those affected beautiful. But the disease, dubbed “the Beauty,” eventually kills its hosts as part of a suspected sinister government plot. The main characters in the comics are detectives Drew Foster and Kara Vaughn, partners on beauty crime cases who have to find their way past corrupt politicians, vengeful federal agents, and a terrifying mercenary out to collect the price on their heads.

The Beauty is executive produced by Murphy, Hodgson, Peters, Ramos, Pope, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich and Eric Gitter. The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.

Hall can currently be seen starring in BBC One’s The Listeners, and she also appears as part of the starry ensemble of James L. Brooks’s Ella McCay. Hall recently reprised her role of scientist Ilene Andrews in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Other recent projects include Prime Video’s Tales from the Loop and David Bruckner’s horror thriller The Night House.

Variety was first to report Hall’s casting.