While the cast of American Horror Story remains tight-lipped regarding what fans can expect from the remainder of season 13, Billie Lourd gave Us an interesting clue.
“There’s some more bathtubs,” Lourd, 34, told Us exclusively at the PaleyFest screening of the hit FX series on Thursday, October 8. “We love bathtubs on this show. We did bathtubs in ‘Cult.’ We did bathtubs in ‘Apolocalypse.’ I’ve gotten real pruny on this show. More bathtubs, more fun.”
All jokes aside, the actress returning to the water may serve as a major clue to eagle-eyed AHS fans. In “Cult,” Lourd’s Winter Anderson shares a disturbing bathtub scene with Alison Pill’s Ivy. More significantly, in “Apocalypse,” Lourd’s character Mallory is submerged in a bath in order to perform time magic and kill Michael Langdon before he could bring about the apocalypse.
Both Winter and Mallory appear in “13” — perhaps the latter will be performing time magic, or Tempus Infinituum, to save the day once again? Only time will tell.
Regardless of how season 13 concludes, Lourd doesn’t think this is the end for the coven of witches — and she has an idea for how their storyline can continue in season 14.
“We’ve been talking about Salem a lot,” she teased to Us. “I think that would be tea, as the kids say.”
Her costar (and fellow coven member) Gabourey Sidibe agrees.
“I think everyone loves ‘Coven’ because everyone loves witches, and I think that we all secretly dream about being a witch,” Sidibe, 43, told Us. “I would love to go back to the witches. But I think out of this coven, I would like to spend more time with the voodoo witches. I want to go back in time to Tituba, and I want to go to the Salem witch trials.”
Unfortunately, while AHS icon and Supreme witch Jessica Lange reprised her roles as Constance Langdon, Sister Jude, Fiona Goode and Elsa Mars, the actress likely won’t return for another season.
“It was great fun to come back and do these four characters and work with this ensemble of actors again,” Lange, 77, said during the PaleyFest panel. “But I don’t see any future in it. No, we’re not going to keep bringing these old bitches back. I mean, come on. We’ve had enough.”
The highly anticipated season 13 of American Horror Story premiered on September 24, with episodes airing weekly until the 13th and final episode on Thursday, October 29. Lourd, Sidibe and Lange are among the all-star cast of returning actors, including fan-favorites Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Frances Conroy, Emma Roberts, Leslie Grossman and more reprising various — and sometimes multiple! — roles from across the anthology series.
While Lourd steps back into the shoes of Winter and Mallory in season 13, she’s quick to admit her favorite character she has ever played is Montana from “1984.”
“She’s the most me,” she told Us. “These characters are not like me. They’re very sad and quiet, and I’m very loud and insane, and that’s Montana. And I love doing aerobics. I mean, not in real life, but let’s bring her back.”
Lourd concluded: “Manifesting Salem with aerobics.”
American Horror Story season 13 airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on FX and streams on Hulu the next day.
