And
with her character's marriage to Del (Michael Chiklis) in shambles, a
scene with his son (Evan Peters) ending in bloodshed and a potential new
roomie in Ethel (Kathy Bates), actress Angela Basset's got her hands as full as her bra this season.
We
picked up some interesting "AHS" tidbits from the 56-year-old during a
recent press conference for the show -- where she talked about her
physical transformation, Twisty the Clown's shocking reveal and addressed Ryan Murphy's assertion that all four seasons of the show are "connected."
Keep reading for the biggest takeaways!
1.) Her Character Was a Complete Surprise
Angela says she signed onto "Freak Show" without knowing her character's interesting physical traits.
"I
didn't have a clue whatsoever what the part might be, what it might
encompass when I signed on. I just knew I had a great time the previous
year and if that was any indication, it was going to be a wild ride. I
think it was about two weeks before I was scheduled to start shooting
that I got the hot-off-the-presses script, so I sat down to read it ...
you read the stage direction, 'African-American woman in her 40s,
hermaphrodite, three breasts and a ding-a-ling.' I thought 'Oh my gosh'
and immediately closed the page to walk around and process that a
minute. I just knew that it was absolutely going to be something I had
never done before and what does an a actor crave but new challenges and
this was going to be one of those."
Sprouting
that third breast isn't easy and takes a team of makeup and special
effects artists to apply it anytime Angela reports to work.
First,
a makeup artists puts on the appliance. Then, she heads to another
trailer for the special effects guys make sure the edges are clean
before painting it to blend in. They then take photos of it to see how
it looks on camera.
"It takes, maybe from start to finish, about
an hour. Just enough time to check out a Netflix episode of 'Orange Is
the New Black,'" says Angela.
3.) It Itches
A long day on set can lead to some serious discomfort for Bassett.
"After
12 hours, you begin to itch, you begin got sweat and you can't really
produce relief because you can't get to yourself, you're scratching
foam," she says.
Still, it's better than the silicone piece they tried out on her at first.
"It started out fine, but it started getting hot and heavy and I believe it started sagging. What's the point of having three sagging breasts?!" she says. "The difference is night and day."
On
last week's episode, Evan Peters'characterhad a breakdown, started
making out with Desiree and thenused his lobster hands on her ... down there. The two got hot and heavy until she started bleeding.
It was uncomfortable to watch, but how was it to film?
"Well, not too awkward. He is
a cute little boy," says Angela. "You're playing characters and he's
quite a professional. I think the most awkward part of it was he was so
emotional, just tears and things coming out of one's nostrils. I think
that was the most awkward part, but sexually it wasn't."
Nope, it wasn't Meep's death.
"When
[Twisty] took that mask off and saw where he put a gun and shot half
his face off, with the way the little people treated him, which spurned
him on to do that... I didn't like that," Bassett reveals. "That sort of
freaked me out, how people treat one another. He's innocent in his
mind, so taking advantage of that, that was a lot for me. That was very
sad."
RIP Twisty.
When
asked if she thought Desiree and Ethel (Kathy Bates) will become
friends, Angela revealed that she has no idea what the writers have
planned ... and they have very little say in what happens next.
"We
really don't know what's coming in the subsequent episodes or scripts.
That's the aspect of this that makes it a little bit difficult or
frustrating for us. We don't have input but we might have influence,"
she says. "We've played it as good good friends, so it remains to be
seen. Maybe they'll see that in the writers' room and it'll take them
down a different road than they had anticipated. That can and does and
has happened in the past, so we'll see."
We really hope for some "Odd Couple" roommate situations between these two!
Amid
all the craziness, blood and gore on the show, the actors still know
how to have fun -- and a few of them really crack Angela up.
"Sarah Paulson
can make me laugh really easy and so can Gaby [Sidibe] when she's
around. I haven't had the opportunity to spend any time with her this
year," says Angela. "But Sarah's pretty funny to me and Michael
[Chiklis] is lighthearted and Emma [Roberts] is pretty crazy. Last
night, it was she and I til midnight outdoors in the cold and she was
pretty funny."
7.) She's Clueless on the Connections
Ryan Murphy recently revealed all four seasons of the show are connected.
"They’re
all very separate but there’s clues every season that we’re now telling
you how the different worlds are intertwined," he told EW last month.
toofab's Candice Brock asked Angela if she had any ideas how Desiree Dupree or Marie Laveau might be connected in the grand scheme of things -- and that was clearly news to her!
"Not
one, nor have I considered it," she said with a laugh. "The only
connection I was able to make is Pepper from Season 2 to Season 4, but
no I haven't thought about that but it gives me something to thought
about," she says. "Sounds like a great college term paper to me!"
Someone somewhere has already started one ... right?
| tooFab.com
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