
EXCLUSIVE: The last big part in the upcoming second season of FX’s American Horror Story has been cast. Oscar nominee James Cromwell is in negotiations to join Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s hit anthology series for a big 10-episode arc opposite star Jessica Lange. Season 2 of AHS is set in an East Coast institution for the criminally insane run by Lange’s character. Cromwell will play the sought-after role of Dr. Arden, who works at the institution and goes head-to-head with his boss, played by Oscar winner Lange. Cromwell is the third big-name addition to AHS for next season along with fellow Oscar nominee Chloe Sevigny and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. They’re joined by French actress Lizzie Brocheré and four other actors from Season 1 who, like Lange, will be playing new characters: Zachary Quinto, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, and Lily Rabe. Paradigm-repped Cromwell recently co-starred in the Oscar-winning feature The Artist.
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Next season could be better than the first, especially with Chloe Sevigny joining the cast.
Please, please, please don’t screw up this coming season like the last…
I hope the writers are serious about breaking real story and not just “LOSTing” mysteries without any sort of payoff.
Don’t count on the writing improving. Doing only 13 episodes of any given story and then sayonara, suckers, means they don’t have to make any sense. But at least this season, we’ll be clued in to how this all works – great, sexy, watchable actors + script full zany, demented antics = pay not attention to the crap writing! Hahahaha, well it works.
That’ll do pig, that’ll do…
This is looking better and better. I just wish they would start filming!
What an amazing cast! The writing will probably just be the same shallow, sensationalistic schlock that it was last season, but with these actors, who cares. And Ryan Murphy’s bad writing is entertaining anyway, which is a step up from the usual type of bad writing – the bad AND boring kind.
i don’t understand how or why some call the first season a screw up. Crappy writing? This is cable folks. Not a big screen blockbuster. I, for one, have seen much worse thrust upon the masses. The writing didn’t seem bad, it seemed unexpected. Not what how i was used to seeing fictional characters respond to crazy a!# situations. YAY for that.
o.k……minus either the “what” or the “how” and all is well with the comment i made above