Aside from the family drama the Freak Show promises this season, Ryan Murphy mentions that he wanted to capture another struggle for acceptance. In his in-depth interview he states, “[The plot] sort of dovetails with a time in our culture where different people of all different kinds of life start to stand up for their civil rights. The performers have put up with centuries of abuse which is all true and are getting to the point where we’re not going to take it anymore.”

In addition to some larger issues the crowd will face, you can expect that Elsa will veer away from Jessica Lange’s previous inclination to play villainous characters. American Horror Story will portray Elsa as a hardworking woman trying to make the best life for her assembled group, especially as trouble brews on the outside.

To the dismay of coulrophobes everywhere, Ryan Murphy talks about his choice to go all out when it comes to creating the villain, Twisty the Clown.

“I’m fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don’t have it. But whenever we shoot those scenes half the time a third of the crew has to leave because they’re so afraid of him. There’s a real interesting thing that people have with being terrified of clowns So we decided to go head on at it and we tried to make him the most terrifying clown of all time.”

Not too much information about Emma Thompson’s role is known, but she will play a con artist who appears as a fortune teller. Evan Peter’s character will have some romantic entanglement with her this season.

As for the singing beauties, Patti LaBelle’s character will not grace audiences with a tune, but Jessica Lange’s ex-Cabaret star will provide a bar or two as part of her act! (Hopefully it will live up to her “Name Game” scene in Asylum.)

In the stills there are two new characters that will appear this season as part of the Freak Show. The first is the Amazon Woman the second is the Tattooed Seal. As far as supernatural elements go on the show, Murphy promises that “once you die, you’re dead. There’s no supernatural thing to bring you back like last year. It’s just completely new.”

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