Good Omens' New Beelzebub on Her Demonic Transformation

When Good Omens returns next week, fans of Prime Video’s Neil Gaiman-Terry Pratchett adaptation will notice some interesting things about the supporting cast. There are familiar faces playing new characters—and an unfamiliar face playing a familiar character: Shelley Conn (Bridgerton, Gen V) as Beelzebub.

(This interview was conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.)

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“We came to the makeup chair, starting with the teeth, and that was a deal because they were enormous,” Conn recalled. “Then it was like, ‘Alright, so what do we do now?’ We didn’t want to do too much. We found the wig placement. And then we were like, ‘Oh, we need to kind of just enhance the eyebrows a little bit more,’ and then we found these kind of—what we sort of thought [looked like] like fly legs coming down as eyelashes.”

Speaking of flies, Beelzebub tends to be surrounded by them—and they influenced not just the character’s eyelashes, but what Conn calls “the scabby-ness” of her skin. “The convention that’s been set up is that when [the demon characters] are in hell, they look gross and dusty and moldy. And when they’re [on Earth], they look a little bit more presentable,” the actress laughed. “I remember talking with the makeup artist, and she was like, ‘I feel like I just don’t know what it is. It’s like we need to name it.’ We were kind of like, ‘What is this, like, maggoty egg thing?’ And then we were like, ‘It’s fly poo and fly vomit. Now we know what it is. Let’s get to work.’ And then it’s scary how little time I spent in the makeup chair to transform to that. It’s like, ‘Oh, well, I’m done. All right.’ That’s not actually that far removed from my own actual face.”

Good Omens season two arrives July 28 on Prime Video.

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