Emma Roberts is a natural playing selfish and mean-spirited sorority leader Chanel Oberin in Ryan Murphy's new horror comedy "Scream Queens," but in real life, Roberts could not be more different than her on-screen persona.
"I'm always the normal girl, or the shy girl, or the girl next door," the actress told Teen Vogue.
When she first read her script, Roberts was actually very concerned that her new character's meanness would come off as too overwhelming.
"Ryan has written Chanel to be very articulate, clever, and fierce. I actually called him and was like, 'Is she too mean? Are people going to hate her?' And he said, 'No, they're going to love to hate her,'" Roberts said. "Chanel is a mean girl and says things that I definitely don't agree with, but I like that there's a layer of smartness to her, so I try to come from a place of understanding. Still, there are definitely times when I'm apologizing to all of the girls when we say 'cut.'"
When she was still a teenager, Roberts found it difficult to forge real friendships because girls were always talking behind each others' backs. This is why she was surprised how well she got along with her "Scream Queens" co-stars, even if they are always backstabbing and plotting against each other in the show.
"I'm such a girl's girl. I'm finally at a point in my life where I feel like I have the group of friends that I always dreamed of having that I know I can support and trust and that make me feel confident," she shared.
Surprisingly, even though she played roles in scary television series "American Horror Story" and "Scream Queens," Roberts admitted that she's "the biggest scaredy-cat of them all."
"My friends don't even want me to see scary movies with them, because they know that they'll have to sleep over after or that I'll be calling them all night thinking that a ghost is in the house," she said.
What's even more scary about "Scream Queens" is that Murphy hasn't told anyone who the real killer is, or who will end up dead or survive for the next season.
"None of us know how the show ends. We don't know who the killer is; we don't even know who's going to live and who's going to die. Apparently only four people will go on to season two," she explained. "It's fun. I think everyone secretly thinks they're the killer, so they are kind of playing it like that."
