Now that the San Diego Comic-Con is officially over, we’re still wrapping up the last few stories from the weekend to make sure you guys get all the scoops. Many of the cast of FX’s American Horror Story: Freakshow were on hand for their panel on Saturday night, and weren’t afraid to talk the show up to the crowd.
AHS exeuctive producer Tim Minear described the fourth season of the series, Freak Show, as ”(director) Douglas Sirk meets the movie Zodiac.”
One by one, each of the actors revealed their new identities: Emma Roberts is Maggie, Sarah Paulson will play Siamese twins Bette and Dot, Michael Chiklis is Evan del Toreado, Angela Bassett is his wife Desiree Dupre, and Evan Peters will play del Toreado’s son Jimmy Darling. Minear said that there will be “a villain who will rival the rubber man and the minotaur from previous seasons. John Carroll Lynch will play him, and he will scare the shit out of you.”
Jessica Lange was not in attendance due to her shooting a film in Spain. There was also no teasers or previews shown during the panel, but that didn’t seem to stop the crowd from being hugely enthusiastic.
Some of the actors quipped about working with creator Ryan Murphy. Said Evan Peters about Murphy, “He’s a visionary. He thinks of all these things, and we have to figure out what he wants.” Said co-star Kathy Bates with a laugh: “That’s the damn truth! It unnerves me a bit. The man behind the curtain has come out in front of the curtain. It’s so lame. I must be nervous. After my first scene one week, I got home and couldn’t go to sleep, and then I slept for 30 hours — and that was without drugs! I swear to God, I think he scares the shit out of me!”
Sarah Paulson talked about playing Siamese twins Bette and Dot, saying that her twins heads are not a prosthetic and there is a mystery about how they did that and she wants to keep it that way.
Freakshow will take place in the 1950’s in Jupiter, Florida.
Source: Deadline
