Credit: FOXSarah Paulson is playing the two-headed Freak Show member Bette and Dot in the forthcoming season of American Horror Story, and has admitted it's been the "most challenging" role she's had in the show so far.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Sarah said: "There's the inherent reality that everyone knows that I do not have two heads. So we're asking the audience to go with us on this journey. We're asking everybody that's a fan of the show, like people who are with the show, so I have anxiety because I just want so much for everything about it to work, [so] that people forget that they're watching something that they know isn't real and that they buy it and they believe it."
She also insisted that whilst it's difficult to play one person, it's "doubly difficult" to give "shading and characterization to two people. And I have a southern accent also."
Also giving no hints about this season's big bad Twist The Clown, Sarah commented that she thinks "he's watching us. But as of right now, there's no story there with that character."
Promising a crazy event in the very first episode "that sets the scene for the rest of the season", she "refuses to believe" what Ryan Murphy has in store for her character, because "he's a man of fever dream inspiration and things come to him out of nowhere and all of a sudden, things take a hairpin turn and it ends in a different way than expected."
American Horror Story: Freak Show premieres this October.
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