American Horror Story: Roanoke's Sarah Paulson Reveals the Character She'd Most Like to Revive
Roanoke, but the show's cast may just be the coolest accidental comedy troupe ever -- when they're not doing the most unsettling stuff you've even seen on television, that is.
Assembled at the closing night of PaleyFest in Los Angeles Sunday, Sarah Paulson, Adina Porter, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kathy Bates, Denis O'Hare and Cheyenne Jackson shared secrets from behind the scenes of the horror fest and kept the audience in stitches while they did.
O'Hare said he'd most like to play Larry Harvey, his Murder House character, adding that he's probably organizing musicals in jail.
The panel was missing co-creator Ryan Murphy, meaning the event was without the juicy tidbits of what's to come in Season 7 -- which we know will deal with the aftermath of the 2016 election.
Watching the ultra-meta moment unfold in the dark theater in real-time, you almost expected there to be people wearing pig heads in the audience when the lights came up.
Sarah Paulson, for example, noted how this season's iron curtain of secrecy created confusion.
Paulson said that when she shared a dressing room with Bates, she saw the legendary actress practicing her accent close up --and did an imitation that sounded like a blend of a drunk Eastern European model and the Muppets' Swedish Chef.
When the floor opened for questions, someone asked if we'd see "more famous people," next season (she meant like Lady Gaga or Beyonce) but to the panel of already pretty famous people, it sounded a little like shade; without missing a beat, Bates, Gooding Jr., O'Hare and Paulson snatched off their mics and walked off the stage in faux disgust.