“The show itself is more comedy,” Roberts says. “I literally was crying laughing when Ryan [Murphy] was telling me about it, and telling me some jokes on it.” More details will be worked out in the next month, but Roberts suspects the vibe will be quite Coven-like: “It going to be a lot of girls, and it reminds me of Coven in a way that it is just like having all that female energy on set.” More than anything, Roberts is excited to continue working with Murphy. “I pretty much will follow Ryan Murphy anywhere, because I just love the worlds he creates. When he told me about this, I was like, 'When do we start?'"
Scream Queen's casts Lea Michelle, Keke Palmer, Joe Manganiello, Abigail Breslin and Ariana Grande.
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Lea Michele and Ryan Murphy won’t be apart for long after Glee ends.
The actress has joined the cast of the creator’s comedy-horror anthology series Scream Queens for Fox, the network announced Saturday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
Joe Manganiello (True Blood), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Keke Palmer (Masters of Sex) have also come on board as series regulars, while pop star/Nickelodeon grad Ariana Grande will appear in a recurring role.
Bona fide scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis and Horror Story alum Emma Roberts marked the project’s first castings.
Scream Queens‘ 15-episode first season, which revolves around a college campus rocked by a series of murders, premieres this fall.