Afgelopen nacht is in Amerika American Horror Story begonnen die deze keer de titel Hotel heeft gekregen. Zoals met alle voorgaande delen, keert ook nu weer het grootste gedeelte van de acteurs en actrices terug. De maker Ryan Murphy had een interview met de website Collider en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een stukje lezen.

American Horror Story is always a bit of mystery. What can you tell us about Hotel?

MURPHY: It is called "Hotel." It's set in a hotel. It's set in Los Angeles, which the first season was as well. And what I've loved about this season is the hotel is set in Downtown Los Angeles, so we really deal with a lot of the American horrors, which is addiction...and on and on. And we were really inspired by the idea of a hotel. There was a surveillance video that went around two years ago that just showed a girl getting into an elevator in a downtown hotel that is rumored to be haunted, and she was never seen again. So that was around two years ago we started thinking of this idea.

When you bring back the same actors, have you unwittingly almost made your job harder because they create such memories in the audience?Is it harder to come up with characters that are maybe the opposites of the things that they've played before?

RYAN MURPHY: That's a good question. I mean, I do feel that I feel the interesting thing for me about the show is it's almost become a personality test when people come up and tell me what is their favorite season or what is their favorite character. And it always is different, and it changes every year. I do feel the pressure for this incredibly talented cast, as I know Brad [Falchuk] does, to try and give them something different, something that is challenging to them. And one thing that I always do with the cast every year is I always say, "What have you always wanted to do or what have you always wanted to play?" So this is a cast that's very involved in a lot of those decisions.

But it sort of rises and falls. Some seasons, an actor will be specifically the lead. The next year, they're supporting. Sarah has gone through that experience. Kathy has gone through that experience on the show; Angela as well. So I feel more pressure to just keep them around. Because one of the fun things about the show, I think, for the actors, why they love it, is because they all have one-year deals. And after this season is up, they can go do other things. That's what happened with Jessica Lange. She decided she wanted a year off to do a play, which I bought for her, stupidly. So that has been, for us, what is the great joy of it, though, is it's so unique and so fun to do that.