\n\tTheir dynamic in the FX<\/a> series, however, takes an unexpected turn. The Assassin (Ramos) is initially ordered by Byron \u2014 aka The Corporation (Ashton Kutcher) \u2014 to kill Jeremy (Pope). But as the season progresses, the pair begin to connect over their shared loneliness. The Assassin opens up about taking \u201cThe Beauty\u201d after being severely injured, a decision that forced him to leave his family behind. Jeremy, meanwhile, is a \u201cdamaged incel desperate to feel seen and loved,\u201d Pope explains below.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s wild about watching [their relationship] is that, you know how you meet those people in your life where you feel like you\u2019ve known them your whole life \u2014 you have that instant thing, right?\u201d Kutcher tells The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cThem having that and the influence it had on your character decisions \u2014 the way they masked it and then unveiled it \u2014 was a really pretty thing to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn the season\u2019s later episodes, Dr. Diana (Ari Graynor) reveals her plan to stop Byron from expanding access to \u201cThe Beauty.\u201d After realizing Byron doesn\u2019t truly have his back, The Assassin joins her effort. Cooper (Evan Peters) then contracts the drug and transforms into a young boy. And in the finale that released Wednesday night, Diana and Byron\u2019s sons reveal there is a reverse drug, and Cooper agrees to try it. But whether it worked is still to be known, since the episode and the season ends after Jeremy, The Assassin and Jordan (Jessica Alexander) stare in shock at whatever is the result.<\/p>\n \n\tBelow, Ramos and Pope discuss the season finale cliffhanger and the biggest questions facing their characters in a potential season two.<\/p>\n \n\t***<\/p>\n \n\tI\u2019m aware that you two went to college together and have been friends for more than a decade. Did your friendship offscreen influence your unexpected friendship in the show?<\/p>\n \n\tANTHONY RAMOS Yes. It made it tough in the beginning, because we\u2019re supposed to act like we don\u2019t know each other. It was very hard to do that at the top, but it made it really easy once when we get deeper into the season, especially in episode seven. We have that scene in the hotel where we both have these moments opening up about our backstories, and you get to know our characters on a deeper level with the monologue that Jeremy gives when he\u2019s sitting down and talking about his dad, and then I give him the monologue when I talk about my son. <\/p>\n \n\tWe get to unlock a new level of vulnerability between these two guys. Those scenes felt seamless, going from these guys who don\u2019t know each other to getting vulnerable with one another because of how long we\u2019ve known each other. And then there are the scenes where I\u2019m singing to him in the car and we get to mess around. Then, the scene where we got the guy tied up and I\u2019m hitting them and Jeremy\u2019s there jamming out and we get to have that rapport while we\u2019re also interrogating this guy \u2014\u00a0all of our relationship before made it a lot easier.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tJeremy Pope as Jeremy, Anthony Ramos as The Assassin in The Beauty. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEric Liebowitz\/FX<\/p>\n \n\tJEREMY POPE It\u2019s a dream to work with family in anything. The things that came up towards the end for me, because there was a foundation and nuance of knowing each other, as artists, as friends, as boys \u2014 we were able to shatter a little bit of toxic masculinity. There\u2019s a dynamic at play. [Anthony\u2019s] playing a 60-plus-year-old man. I\u2019m playing this incel, insecure, damaged person that\u2019s needing to be seen and loved. We can be hardened when it comes to men on men, and how much we\u2019re willing to open up and share. But I think we were able to really excavate and bring a layer of transparency and comfortability, and we have that in real life because we\u2019ve seen each other through different seasons of our life and actually showing up for each other in real moments off camera. <\/p>\n \n\tSo to have this moment where it is a lot of laughter and improv and singing and jokes, but then to lock into scenes that were about excavating the truth and the vulnerability of what\u2019s at stake in this wild world that Ryan has created\u2026 I really pray and hope that people will be able to see themselves through these complex characters and find a moment of connection and truth. It made it a lot easier to look across the room at someone I really respect and love and care for, and open up myself.<\/p>\n \n\tJeremy, you\u2019ve worked with Ryan Murphy<\/a> several times before, and many of the actors he works with tend to stick around in his work. What about you two make a great collaboration?<\/p>\n \n\tPOPE Ryan is a friend first, and a collaborator and creative second. Ryan really champions artists; our nuance as artists and as humans. He sees us for what other collaborators maybe can\u2019t see yet, whether it\u2019s the type of character we want to play or world we\u2019d love to explore. I remember he texted me, \u201cYou want to do something weird?\u201d I was like, \u201cWell, Ryan, everything you do is kind of weird, so how weird are we talking?\u201d I meant that with love, and he knew it. When he sent this show, it was a bit darker than anything I\u2019ve been asked to play. I thought that was interesting to bring the juxtaposition of how people perceive me and what this energy that I can possess or bring into this character. I have so much respect for someone who is willing to bet. He gave me my first TV show. He bet on me when I didn\u2019t have any TV credits. Hollywood was my first Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n \n\tYou both also executive-produced, so I wanted to know if it was always the plan to end the season on a cliffhanger with young Cooper trying to reverse \u201cThe Beauty\u201d but not revealing if it worked. Did you ever shoot alternative versions of that final scene?<\/p>\n \n\tPOPE We didn\u2019t shoot an alternative. With Ryan, it\u2019s really about the collaboration; he has a vision. As you\u2019ve seen in a lot of his work, you can almost identify a Ryan show just based on the way it\u2019s shot and looks. So there are always open conversations about where we want the story to go, where we hope the story will go. But with Ryan, it\u2019s about trusting and soaring. You have to trust the visionary and the vision at hand, and know that he\u2019s going to take you to the promised land. A lot of these scripts we were getting in real time as we were shooting and things were being revealed to us. I remember at one point we got episode 10, and we were like, \u201cIs that the end?\u201d Because we didn\u2019t know, or we hadn\u2019t heard about episode 11.<\/p>\n \n\tRAMOS Yeah, we didn\u2019t know until the end. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tPope, Evan Peters as Cooper and Ramos in The Beauty.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFX<\/p>\n \n\tPOPE So we were on the journey of trusting and knowing that he has a vision: he\u2019s going to take this series to the place he wants to take it, ultimately, at the care of what these characters need and what makes the most sense. So that is collaborating with Ryan on The Beauty. He\u2019s going to allow you to imbue all that you can into these complex characters. But at the end of the day, you\u2019re going to read the script and be on the edge of the page, just like, hopefully, the audience is when they\u2019re watching the series.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a potential season two, do you think your characters would take the reserve \u201cBeauty\u201d shot? Or do you think they\u2019re too comfortable enjoying the benefits it\u2019s given them?<\/p>\n \n\tRAMOS That\u2019s a good question. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019d go back. I think he\u2019s too far down the road.<\/p>\n \n\tPOPE We might have lost my man, Jeremy, on this one. I think he is feeling it in new ways. So I don\u2019t know if he would want to reverse it. I want to believe there\u2019s a turn in him, but my man is loving the highlights, the private jets, the double-breasted blazers. It\u2019s hard to come back from that.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tThe Beauty.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhilippe Antonello\/FX<\/p>\n \n\tSince many of Ryan Murphy\u2019s shows are anthologies or limited series, but this one seems ongoing, were there early conversations about how many seasons this show might have? And was there an overall arc planned for your characters?<\/p>\n \n\tPOPE When Ryan called me, he just told me scale. He\u2019s like, \u201cThis is a very big show \u2014 we\u2019re going international.\u201d He hadn\u2019t done anything this expensive or big in a minute and he hadn\u2019t been international since Eat Pray Love. So he was just talking about the scale and the world-building of it all, that there would be all these side characters and main characters coming together. Ashton and I didn\u2019t really even work together in this season, so it leads you to, well, that surely has to happen. I think, if anything, it was less about the number of seasons, but how large this vision was. I think he knows when it\u2019s a limited series and it\u2019s a beginning, middle and end, but this one wasn\u2019t a period, it was a comma.<\/p>\n \n\t***<\/p>\n \n\tAll episodes of The Beauty are currently streaming on Hulu. 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