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Rebecca Hall, who plays Jordan Bennett in 'The Beauty', discusses the show's major plot twist, explaining how it turns into a 'nightmare' for her character and the fun she had with the 'bait and switch' narrative.
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00:00I mean, it was pitched to me very much with that twist built in and I thought that was a
00:04sort of fun conceptually
00:06because, you know, there are people in the show who want to take the beauty, who want to change themselves
00:14and there's people like Jordyn who, you know, will do what she can but is not looking for any major
00:19changes
00:19and then it sort of ends up becoming a bit of a nightmare, actually, if you think about it.
00:25No matter how gorgeous you are, which she is, like, you know, it's still, you look in the mirror and
00:31you're somebody else.
00:32It might not be what everyone wants and I thought that was also sort of interesting to be the kind
00:37of bait and switch,
00:39sort of Janet Leigh of the situation, which is kind of also fun for the viewer.
00:45Play with your expectation there.
00:48There was a lot of fun to be had.
00:49I mean, I loved playing Jordyn for the time that I got to play her.
00:53Like, she's good fun for me, nice to just play someone who's a bit funny and sounds like me for
01:01a change.
01:02No weird voices involved.
01:04How, what, I guess, how gnarly was the transformation for you and, like, how gross were the practical effects?
01:12It was pretty gnarly.
01:14I mean, I didn't have to come out of, I mean, I think the other side of it is arguably
01:19more, I didn't have to deal with too much goo, is what I'm saying.
01:24I had to, had to have a lot of sweat and do a lot of water drinking and a lot
01:28of throwing myself around and some, some low-level contortion.
01:32Um, like, and, and that was pretty fun.
01:36I mean, I like, I like doing physical stuff, so, uh, you know, it's, it was a good, it was
01:40a good challenge.
01:41Um, like, I like doing physical stuff, so, uh, you know, it's a good challenge.
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