Rebecca Hall Talks The Beauty, Entering Her Villain Era, and Bette Davis

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.1 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

For someone who’s done a lot of horror movies, Rebecca Hall admits she’s a bit squeamish. That, however, didn’t stop her from taking on a role in the newest body horror series, The Beauty, which is set to premiere January 21st on FX.

Rebecca first learned of the series when she grabbed breakfast at Buvette in the West Village with Ryan Murphy (who created the show Matthew Hodgson) who enticed her with three things: a fun premise (an STD that makes you so hot that you explode, sign Rebecca up!), great clothes (The Row to be specific, and who could say no to that?) plus a list of fabulous filming locations: Rome, Paris, and Venice all making the list.

“He [Ryan] was very open to me. One of the joys for me of this job was that not many people asked me to just be myself for a character.” Rebecca told Senior Features Editor Marley Marius and Fashion Writer Hannah Jackson on Wednesday afternoon.

This openness and collaborative spirit Ryan gives to his actors is what enticed Rebecca about working with him again on his series Monster, where she will play Lizzie Borden in which she called “entering her villain era” which was a lot of fun for her.

When Rebecca is not on the job, she finds great joy in painting (many of her works have been either sold or exhibited), watching The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (for which her husband is getting around to understanding), and dressing up in “crazy outfits” in her day-to-day quiet upstate life.

Earlier in the episode, Chioma fills Chloe in about the behind-the-scenes of the new fabulous British Vogue cover with Jessie Buckley. They also chat what they are looking forward to about awards season and give a farewell to Will Welch who announced he is departing from GQ earlier this week.

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0:00.0	This is The Run Through.
0:08.4	I'm Chloe Mel.
0:09.4	And I'm Chomanadi.
0:10.7	And it is pleasure upon pleasures.
0:14.5	Chomanadi, in the flesh, in the studio.
0:16.9	Actually, I'm going to take a picture right now.
0:18.5	Guys, I have to say, I think Chloe got dressed up for me.
0:21.1	I know she didn't, but I'm just pretending that she did because she was wearing a lovely
0:24.6	purchase from the Prada Sample sale. Is it Mimi? It's so true. Look at you. Eagle Eye. Thank you so much. You look amazing. I love this lace collar. I'm sort of channeling all the period films that I'm enjoying right now.
0:38.0	We have our digital cover star Amanda Seifreed.
0:42.6	Her cover is coming out tomorrow morning and that is very in line with that. Time to the Testament of
0:47.7	Anne Lee, which is about the Shaker Mother Superior, Anne, and has a lot of good lace.
0:57.1	Yes, I dressed up because we are filming a Vogue intern video today with someone very special,
1:02.8	but I shan't reveal who that is yet.
1:04.8	I can't wait for that.
1:06.5	And then I'm going to a screening of Jay Kelly this evening, the Noah Boundback film, which I'm excited about. So yeah, you know, you kind of dress at 7 a.m. for the whole day, Choma. Well, you look fabulous. Thank you so much. I'm going to pretend it was for me. But I got new stockings, and I already got a run in them. Oh, no. First day. I hate that feeling. Ugh.
1:32.5	First of all, today we have the fabulous Rebecca Hall on the show.
1:37.4	She came to the podcast studio this week to chat with features editor Marley Marius and fashion writer Hannah Jackson about the new series called The Beauty.
1:42.1	It is a real star-studded Ryan Murphy Affair with everyone from Isabella Rosalini to Ashton Coucher. Well, two names I never thought I would say in a sentence together.
1:52.2	Anthony Ramos, Evan Peters, Bella Hadid even makes a cameo. And we were trying this morning in our edit meeting about how this is really adding to this widening canon of body horror.
2:06.4	That obviously the substance really seized on that.
2:09.7	But more and more people on our team were saying that they're getting served more content about body horror.
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