Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett, and Emma Roberts Are Returning to ‘American Horror Story’—and We Have Your First Look
Confirmed she has a musical number!!!
Ryan Murphy: I think when you have a show like American Horror Story that has become so long-running and popular, you go back to the origin story of it. And Jessica, that first season, won every award on Earth. When I wanted to turn the show into an anthology, which at that time was really unheard of, she was the first to say, “Great.” And then we had Asylum, Coven, Freak Show, and she did a little bit on Apocalypse.
So I just thought the number 13 was infused with so much stuff in the horror genre, and I wanted to do a greatest hits season. I didn’t know what it was, but I knew that I could only do it with Jessica. So we had dinner, and she was telling me about how everywhere she goes, young people just bombard her and ask for autographs because they love that show so much. She said some funny thing about how, “Nobody comes up and wants to talk to [her] about Blue Sky or Tootsie. They just want to talk about American Horror Story.” That was the first time I had heard her talk about it in a very nostalgic, sentimental way. So I told her, “That’s funny. That’s why I wanted to meet you.” And I pitched her, and she said, “Great. I’m in as long as I have a musical number.”
