Jessica Lange to most likely return to AHS season 5
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DEADLINE: How hard was it to say goodbye to Jessica?
MURPHY: Well, all I can say about that never say never with Jessica. She and I are doing something else right now. I’m producing a production of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, that is one of her dream roles. She’s done it before and she wanted to do it again and I got the rights for her, we’re going to do that on Broadway. So we’re working again together, and I think if I went to Jessica and I had an amazing role, I think she would do it. I think she wanted some time off, but Jessica is somebody that is always about the role, in every season on this show.
One of the unique things about American Horror Story is, it’s very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don’t want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you’re FREE after every year, you can come back or you cannot come back. And what I usuallyAMERICAN-HORROR-STORY-FREAK-SHOW do is tell them, “If you come back, this is the role I have in mind for you and these are the other actors you’re going to be working with, the script, the theme and the tone.” And I think from that for them comes a great amount of personal freedom. They feel that they have a choice to a certain DEGREE and that’s certainly how I always approached Jessica every season; I would say, “Here’s the role, here’s the theme; are you in, do you want to do it?” and I was lucky enough that she said yeah. I think if I came up with something extraordinary for her, if I could come up with a great character, she’s all about that, and she’s told me that, if you have something great after I sort of get my rest then let’s keep talking, so I’ll do that.
During an interview with The Wrap, Jessica now says she would "absolutely" come back if creator Ryan Murphy offered her "a small character for a couple of episodes." "This was a great collaboration," she CONTINUED, "so I would love to keep working with him.
Well i guess i will be watching again! I've loved every season and was about to stop watching if they axed her completely. She makes the show IMO! even if her characters are the same, her acting gives me chills.
I'm expecting at most an episode or 2 at the end of S5, probably her reprising the role of Constance. But I doubt anything will come of her returning until AHS6 at the earliest, and even then it will be in a limited capacity.