New details from the upcoming “American Horror Story: Hotel” are here – including who Lady Gaga is playing – and we’re ready to check in!
Ryan Murphy and many of the cast members were on hand at FX’s day at the Television Critics’ Association press tour, where they spilled details on the highly anticipated new season of the show.
Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett and Wes Bentley speak onstage during the ‘AHS: Hotel’ panel discussion on August 7, 2015 in Beverly Hills (Getty)
Here’s what the series creator and cats had to say about their characters:
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Lady Gaga (Elizabeth): “She owns the hotel, and she is sort of a very wealthy social doyenne who is consumed with art and fashion and people and she has a nefarious plan that is revealed in the first episode and plays out over the course of the season. She starts shooting on Monday,” Ryan told reporters.
Angela Bassett (Ramona Royale): “I have a very strong, real, lasting relationship with [Lady Gaga] character, so I’m sure I’ll be at odds with [Finn Wittrock] down there. My character is this fabulous actress of the day. I don’t live at the hotel, but I visit very often.”
Kathy Bates: (Iris): “I run the hotel. I have relationships with Matt Bomer and with Wes, and I can’t stand [Sarah Paulson], I hate you. And I don’t know yet if I get to work with Angela, I hope I do. And Liz Taylor and I have a very close relationship, and I do crossword puzzles in my spare time.”
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Sarah Paulson (Sally): “My character this year is quite dark. I think she’s sexy. She’s a drug addict, and not that drug addicts are sexy, but this girl happens to be quite sexy. She’s got a thing. I don’t think it’s like anything I’ve done on this show … I live at the hotel. I hate Iris in a rather ancient way for reasons that are revealed quickly. I have kind of budding something with Wes’s character. It’s sort of dark and, sorry, you don’t know this yet.”
Finn Wittrock (Tristan Duffy): “I’m playing a male model…who’s always looking for the next high. And I think he sort of finds his biggest high in Lady Gaga, and they have a lot to do together. She sees all of me.”
Cheyenne Jackson (Will Drake): “I play a fashion icon. He’s trying to creatively reestablish himself, so he moves from New York to Los Angeles. A father, and a little desperate.”
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Denis O’Hare (Elizabeth Taylor): “I’m playing Liz Taylor, movie icon. I’m not actually playing Elizabeth Taylor, but I’m playing a person who is inspired by the awesomeness of things like ‘Butterfield,’ ‘8’ and ‘Cleopatra’ and eye makeup like that. And I shaved my head for the part and other body parts. I work in the hotel, I work with Kathy, and I work in the bar.”
Wes Bantley (Detective John Lowell): “We had a great loss in the family. I’m investigating some grisly murders, which somehow leads me to checking into the hotel.”
Chloe Sevigny (Alex): “I’m the wife of Wes Bentley, and a mother and a doctor and dealing with a great loss that we had in our family and coming to grips with that, among other things.”
Matt Bomer (Donovan): “[I’m] playing a denizen of the hotel. I’m closely associated with Ms. Gaga and Ms. Bates and Mr. Wittrock, amongst others. He has very interesting relationships with the lady folk in his life. I’ll leave it at that.”
“American Horror Story: Hotel” premieres on October 7 on FX.
— Jesse Spero
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