Be prepared to be scared out of your minds tonight! The fourth season of "American Horror Story" kicks off in just a few hours (at 10 p.m. on FX) and Ryan Murphy is dropping some last minute teasers. The creator of the spooky anthology series, this season subtitled "Freak Show," spoke to E! News about Matt Bomer's character, Jessica Lange and conjoined twins Dot and Bette.
First up is Lange, who will play freak show ringleader Elsa Mars. The 65-year-old actress has said several times that this season of "American Horror Story" will be her last, but Murphy teased that she might stick around a little longer.
"I'm never accepting [that she will leave]," Murphy said. "This is her favorite season without question. She said that to me, she has said that publicly, that she feels really reinvigorated in some regards. I really want her to keep her hand in. does that mean 13 episodes of six or one? What does that mean? She and I will probably have a dinner date over the holidays. We always start with the character and she decides from there."
"Before I was met with a really quick no and now I'm hearing, 'Let's keep talking.' So that's a promising sign... I think if I presented her with the right character, it would work," he added. "That's my hope. I'm sending bribes every day!"
Murphy said Matt Bomer's guest role, which is still being kept under wraps, is "one of the most disturbing things we've done."
"Episode five, we wrote this very strange, odd episode where something really horrible happens," he said. "We've never done this before but there's a seven page scene between Michael Chiklis (Dell Toledo) and Matt, and I texted Matt and told him 'I'm writing this character and said you have first right of refusal. It's really fucked up.' And he wrote back 30 seconds later, 'I'm in.'"
"It's maybe one of the most disturbing things we've done," Murphy continued. "Matt was game. He likes to do the opposite of what he has done. It's a true horror scene."
The creator also dished on Sarah Paulson's two-headed character Dot and Bette. Murphy told E! that Paulson should receive an award because it was really challenging to play conjoined twins.
"Most people do two people conjoined at the chest with two actors," he said. "We thought about that, but I really wanted Sarah to do both roles. If an average scene takes 5 hours, every time Paulson is in a scene it takes 12 hours. We have a prosthetic head for Dot and Bette. She will record her dialogue with an earwig so she literally has to do a scene with herself."
