On the fifth season of FX's American Horror Story: Hotel, Lady Gaga will play the character of Countess.
Countess is Elizabeth, the owner of Hotel Cortez, a blood-thirsty, glamorous socialite and fashion icon who is constantly devising evil plans to serve her purpose in life. She needs to feed on people's blood to maintain her youth and beauty.
The 29 year-old singer, plays alongside the show's regulars. Donovan(Matt Bomer),will be her blood-hungry lover, whose domesticity actually goes against her limitless pursuits. Kathy Bates, is Donovan's mother, who works as a front-desk clerk in the hotel. Sarah Paulson, plays the role of Hydormic Sally, who returns as an addict.
The other characters that were named are that of Tristan(Finn Wittrock), the Countess' other lover. Ramona(Angela Basset), who was involved with the Countess' in the past but wants revenge .These two women, both powerful will be opposing each other as the story unfolds, and James March(Evan Peters). James, was the hotel owner and builder in the past.
Ryan Murphy, director of this award-winning horror anthology,prefers the term " ancient blood virus" on his characters rather than
vampires. He insists that, "It's really a form of hemophilia in a way. There's no capes and fangs."
The director further relates that the craving for human blood is borne out of a virus infecting the characters in his series. Since there will be no fangs, Lady Gaga will wear a highly fashionable chain mail glove to slice the arteries of her victims.
This is Lady Gaga's first time, to return to the small screen after her performance of the "Sound of Music Medley", at the Academy Awards.
Just in case you are curious as to how she landed the role, she voluntarily asked Ryan Murphy for it. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly she revealed, " I called him and said 'Ryan , I wanna be on Horror Story.' And he goes,'Okay.' And that was it."
This will premiere on October 7 and run until January 20.
