Fans of American Horror Story had extra reason to celebrate last season, thanks to the reappearance of Jessica Lange.
The veteran actress had played actress-turned-murderess Constance Langdon during the show’s first season, and reprised the role during AHS: Apocalypse, which is unusual for the anthology series.
What prompted the return?
“It was like all conversations with Ryan,” Lange told TheWrap. “He is extremely… Can I use the word seductive? He knows exactly what to say to whom. I think he knows me so well by now that he hits all the key phrases right off the bat.
“So, for instance, he’s talking about the relationship with the children and a 10-page monologue, the drunkenness and the death. He hits all the scenes that would make it interesting for me to come back to play this character. And he usually catches me when I’m sitting out here in the middle of nowhere, doing nothing and I think, ‘Oh, yeah, maybe I should work. Maybe I shouldn’t quit quite yet.’ That’s how it happens. He knows what I like to do and what appeals to me as an actor to play.”
The other thing that swayed the Tootsie actress was the epic death scene she was promised.
“To play a part like that, to play a scene like that, I find deliriously fun because it’s total abandon,” Lange said. “There’s no reason, there’s no logic. It’s just about the physical and emotional. So the idea that she is basically OD’ing and having these — are they visions, her children come to see her? It was my favorite scene to shoot, because there is a physical abandon to it that I always like to investigate.”
And she did it perfectly.
