NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- American Horror Story and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story alum Evan Peters says he was excited to play the hero in Ryan Murphy's latest project, The Beauty.
"It's a relief. It was fun. It was exciting. When [Murphy] pitched it to me, he said, 'There's going to be some great action sequences and there's a complicated romance with Jordan, played by Rebecca Hall,' which was very exciting to play," the 39-year-old Emmy winner said in a recent virtual press conference.
"He said he just wanted me to be normal, just to try to be myself, which was difficult," he quipped.
Premiering Wednesday on FX and Hulu, the dark comedy/horror series casts Peters as Cooper Madsen and Hall as Jordan Bennett, FBI agents investigating gruesome deaths connected to the use of a drug that instantly improves people's appearances.
Ashton Kutcher plays the unscrupulous head of the corporation that makes the drug and Anthony Ramos plays an assassin employed to kill people who share the drug without permission. Jeremy Pope, Bella Hadid and Isabella Rossellini co-star.
