As with the leadup to the Season 3/Coven premiere, there have been just snippets of intel trickling out about the upcoming fourth season of American Horror Story, this one set in Florida and dubbed Freak Show. And today we get the first glimpse of an actual character: Sarah Paulson as two-headed conjoined twins Bette and Dot. Paulson tweeted the photo of her character today, and series creator Ryan Murphy retweeted it, by way of approval.
Paulson, along with Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Dennis O'Hare, and Frances Conroy, has appeared on every season of the show. All five are returning for Freak Show, along with Kathy Bates, Emma Roberts, Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, Jamie Brewer, and Michael Chiklis. Patti Lupone was invited back, but her casting has not been confirmed.
The details we've gleaned so far are that Lange will play a German ex-pat running one of the last freak shows in the country, in 1950, in Jupiter, Florida. We also know that Bates, Peters, Conroy, and Bassett all play freaks, or "unusuals," whom Lange's character has "rescued." And we know that Chiklis is playing Peters' father, and Bates' ex. But is Kathy Bates playing the bearded lady??
We know that O'Hare will be playing some kind of antagonist to Lange's character. He's said, "I’m going to be working at cross-purposes with her... We’ll have lots of scenes with each other, but we’ll be battling."
Also, Murphy has revealed that there will be a character called Clown Killer who will be "the most terrifying clown ever." Sound fun yet?
In a recent interview with E! News, Paulson said her first reaction to the script was "Holy s--t!" And, she add, "I feel like that's the appropriate reaction you want when you read the first script of American Horror Story." She also said she's being asked to do "a lot of physical things" and that "it's very exciting and totally nerve-wracking in the best way, because you think, ‘How the hell am I going to pull this off?!' And as an actor, I think that's an exciting thing to feel."
Also, she said, "There's going to be a little bit of a richer and potentially darker tone the way Asylum had, but with the humor infused from Coven."
American Horror Story: Freak Show will once debut in time for Halloween, in October.
