Carey Mulligan on the Gen Z v millennial feud at the heart of Netflix's Beef

Carey Mulligan on the Gen Z v millennial feud at the heart of Netflix's Beef9 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleLauren TurnerBBC NewsNetflixCarey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac (centre) find themselves in a feud with a younger coupleIn the new series of Beef, Netflix's hit show exploring rage and anger, Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac have beef and lots of it - with each other, with their Gen Z employees, and with the world in general.While the first season, released in 2023, followed a row between strangers after a prang in a parking lot, the second focuses on bust-ups between people who are closer to home.Isaac's character runs a prestigious country club in California, and Oscar-nominated actress Mulligan plays his British wife.The couple's tempestuous marriage comes to a head when two twenty-something employees witness them having an explosive row - and, after filming it, decide it's ripe for blackmail.NetflixMulligan plays a British interior designer with a dachshund called BurberryThe tensions within and between the two couples - one millennial, the other Gen Z - reverberate throughout the episodes. The two sides burn with a "mutual disdain for each other", explains Mulligan, who is known for films like An Education, Promising Young Woman and The Ballad of Wallis Island."They can't stand us and we can't stand them. Everything they do is annoying, particularly after the inciting incident of the whole show."We have a common enemy in them, and that's the way we stay together."Indeed, the marriage between Mulligan and Isaac's characters Lindsay and Joshua appears on the brink."When we meet this couple, it's not a spoiler to say they're on their knees," she adds."Their relationship is really hanging on by a thread and actually it's their mutual disdain of this Gen Z couple, and all the things about them that are annoying, that binds us."NetflixCharles Melton...