Beef stars Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton on Gen Z vs millennial angst, KFC and 60 soup cans

By Glenn Whipp
Cailee Spaeny looks at Charles Melton, her co-star on the second season of Netflix limited series Beef, asking for help: “Wait a minute … how long were we attached?” Melton smiles and reaches for her hand. “We’ve been attached our whole lives.”
Have they?

Given how they tease and finish each other’s sentences, it sure feels that way.

Spaeny and Melton were cast as Ashley and Austin, a Gen Z couple working at a country club, dreaming and scheming towards upward mobility, a good 18...