Time and again, "American Horror Story" alum Jessica Lange has said that she will not be coming back for the show's next season, which has already been given the title "Hotel," but it seems like the veteran actress is now singing a different tune.
"If Ryan came to me and said, 'Would you want to do a small character for a couple episodes?' I would absolutely say yes if I liked it," Lange said during a recent interview for TheWrap's Emmy magazine. "This was a great collaboration, so I would love to keep working with him."
Lange has been given pretty meaty roles throughout the entire "American Horror Story" series. For season one's "Murder House," she played a cunning housewife, then a sadistic nun with a sordid past in "Asylum," a ruthless witch in "Coven," and a manipulative freak show boss with a desperate claim to fame in "Freak Show."
"There was a thread through all four of those characters, which is a kind of desperation, a profound disappointment in life," Lange described. "As on-edge or neurasthenic as they appear to be, they have a spine of steel. It's exactly the kind of complexity in a character that I love, that it appears to be one thing and it's something else."
Lange earlier said that those were "four of the best roles" she ever had in decades. "Actually, one or two of them were as good as anything I've ever done. The characters Ryan Murphy made for me are vital and have a very interesting relationship with the sexual world. You don't see that very often for women in their 50s - certainly not for women in their 60s," Lange told Dazed magazine.
At 66 years old, Lange still has an incredible command of the screen, and she feels very fortunate to be given the opportunity to play powerful female roles at this time.
"For me, the most interesting part of a character is their sensuality," she added. "I can still play a very sensual, very sexual character at this point in my life. I haven't been completely written off!"
The fifth season of the show will return to FX on October and will star Lady Gaga, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Wes Bentley, Chloe Sevigny, Cheyenne Jackson, Finn Wittrock, and Denis O'Hare.
Murphy has another show in the works called "Scream Queens," which will also star Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Nick Jonas, and Ariana Grande.
