Tag: Cheyenne Jackson

Ryan Murphy had planned to tackle the cult of personality surrounding politics in the seventh season of American Horror Story even before the 2016 election rolled around. But, the creator told the audience at an Emmy FYC panel at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills on Friday night, after election night, he knew that's where he wanted to begin. That meant AHS: Cult was one of the first scripted series to tackle the election in a meaningful way. Star Sarah Paulson told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet before the panel — which Murphy himself moderated — that she and her costars thought that maybe they'd already worked through their feelings about the election by the time they began filming Cult. They were wrong, she said. "By the time we were shooting ... we all thought that maybe we were not over it, but in a place where having to access this would be sort of easy," she said. "It's such a huge story and it's impacting our lives on a personal level, on a sociopolitical level. I actually think our season of American Horror Story, it's obviously a horror, but for me, in a good way, it made me laugh a lot, because I really think it was ultimately a satire of the insane, and absurd, and highly charged time that we're living in." And Las Vegas happened just a couple of days before the episode aired. She continued, "I'm not afraid of clowns; I don't have phobias; I'm not afraid of all that stuff.