The official title of Season 5 of the American horror anthology TV series “American Horror Story” is “Hotel” and the show will be taking its fans and viewers into the unfortunate and horrific experiences of checking in into a hotel all by one’s lonesome.
It has been confirmed that pop singer Lady Gaga will be among the stars who will be debuting in the series. Despite her inclination, however, there will be no musical number in the upcoming horror anthology series, much to the delight of the critics, notes Moviepilot.
Lady Gaga is not the first music celebrity to be a guest star in “American Horror Story.” During Season 4, music icons David Bowie, Nirvana, and Fiona Apple also guested in the series. They did render a couple of songs during their respective guesting stints but fans were not impressed because their music, while obviously good, did not really add anything to intensify the excitement of the episodes where they were featured.
Having learned their lesson from the past season, the showrunners will cast Lady Gaga, but this time, she would not be doing any of her music but will go with just what the script says.
Horrible lipstick accident
Speaking of the script, the singer recently took to Instagram by posting a lipstick-tainted writer’s draft of the “American Horror Story: Hotel.”.
Lady Gaga captioned the post as a horrible lipstick accident and saying that she was just doing a bit of monster homework, notes the International Business Times.
The accident that the singer was referring to was the red smudges all over the top page of the script. At first look, it would appear that the red smudges were made of blood and it was even seen all over Lady Gaga’s long nails. If not for her caption saying that it was just lipstick, it would have really looked as if she has just killed or decapitated somebody before reading the script of “American Horror Story” Season 5.
Co-creator Ryan Murphy did not disclose the character that Lady Gaga would be taking on in the upcoming season, but he, however, hinted that the singer would be a bad, bad girl in “Hotel.”
Showrunners Murphy and Brad Falchuk have been in talks with Lady Gaga since late last year about her possible guesting stint in the American horror anthology series but it was only in February this year that they all come to terms.
The 29-year-old singer apparently told Murphy and Falchuk during their discussions that she has been a fan of the show for a long time and that she wants to portray an evil character in it. It seems like her wish has been granted and fans would be able to see that in the upcoming fifth season of “American Horror Story.”
The teaser trailer of “American Horror Story” Season 5 that was shown in the recently-concluded ComicCon 2015 was titled “Front Desk” and starts off with a bell on the table. A silver-gloved female hand reaches out to ring the bell. The hand then taps its nails on the table, making a metallic clinking noise.
While the video does not show anything except the hand, the scene cuts to a name across the screen – Lady Gaga, which was more than enough to excite the fans for the upcoming Season 5 of “American Horror Story.”
Complex characters
While the show has really lost a bit of its punch with the departure of veteran actress Jessica Lange as the big bad villainess, her characters in the horror anthology series have been pretty much cyclical so the show will definitely survive.
In addition, the series also features a very impressive cast including Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Finn Wittrock, Denis O’Hare, Wes Bentley, Richard T. Jones, Cheyenne Jackson, Matt Bomer, and Chloe Sevigny.