Patti LuPone.Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
It ain’t New York City withoutBroadwaylegendPatti LuPone.
The three-timeTony Awardwinner, 73, will make her triumphant return toAmerican Horror Storywith the upcoming 11th season, which the showannounced this weekis appropriately New York City-themed.
Although hercasting was announcedlast month alongside fellow returning starsZachary Quinto,Billie Lourd,Sandra BernhardandIsaac Powell, FX revealed the new season’s title this week, as well as an Oct. 19 premiere date. (The new season’s plot has not yet been released.)
Leslie GrossmanandDenis O’Harewill also return for season 11, which features franchise newcomers Joe Mantello,Charlie CarverandRussell Tovey, according toEntertainment Weekly.
LuPone previously appeared in the show’s third season,AHS: Coven, which premiered in 2013. She played Joan Ramsey, a strict fundamentalist Christian woman with a dark secret who moves in next door to witchcraft academy Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies.
TheGypsystar has also appeared in episodes ofAHScreatorRyan Murphy’s other showsHollywood,PoseandGlee.
She discussed working with Murphy, 56, on herHollywoodcharacter Avis Amberg, a widow and movie studio chair who frequents Golden Tip Gasoline, a front for a group of male sex workers.
“I was so thrilled when Ryan said there’ll be sex scenes and I went, ‘Finally.’ Women get cast as mothers or grandmothers at my age,” she toldELLEin 2020. “Oh no, we’ve still got sexual desire. We’re still desirable. Why not? So I’m so thrilled.
“There was a sex scene, I’m sorry to say, that was cut out that I had withDylan [McDermott]. It was very exciting!” LuPone added.
RELATED VIDEO: Dylan McDermott Reveals He Had 3 Sex Scenes Cut fromHollywood, Including One with Patti LuPone
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American Horror Story: New York Citypremieres Oct. 19 at 10 p.m. ET on FX.
source: people.com
