American Horror Story season 13 will feature an all-star array of actors from the show’s previous seasons, bringing back their fan-favorite characters. Neither of these elements are exactly new to the anthology series; creator Ryan Murphy loves to work with the same performers across different projects, and even though American Horror Story is ostensibly an anthology, its storylines often find ways to engineer crossovers. But from the sound of it, season 13 will take that to the extreme, with returning faces like Sarah Paulson playing multiple characters fans will recognize from past seasons.
And while a new interview with Murphy in Vogue confirms Paulson will play six of her former characters in season 13 (Jessica Lange is playing four, while Evan Peters has five), we still don’t yet know exactly who. Cordelia Goode from Coven and Apocalypse will surely have a prominent role. But what about Paulson’s character—or rather, dual characters—from Murphy’s personal favorite American Horror Story season? “Whenever I tell Jessica or Sarah or Evan [which AHS season is my favorite], they’re like, ‘You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,'” Murphy told Vogue. “My favorite season is Roanoke, which is a lot of people’s least favorite season. I liked the structure and the dramaturgy of it. It was challenging for me.” Roanoke, which aired in 2016, is styled as both a documentary filled with dramatic reenactments about an allegedly haunted house, titled My Roanoke Nightmare, and a found-footage look at the doomed attempt to make a sequel after the original documentary becomes a smash hit. Doomed, of course, because there are indeed ghosts galore creeping around the property, and grisly murders ensue.
