'American Horror Story' Season 7: Billie Lourd Confirmed to Join Show
FX's popular horror anthology "American Horror Story" is on its seventh season, and after a revelation that the theme will be based on the recent U.S. presidential elections, new cast members are also confirmed to join the series.
The latest confirmed star to join the seventh season is Billie Lourd ("Scream Queens"), but details of her role in the upcoming season has not yet been revealed.
Other than Lourd, Billy Eichner ("Difficult People") is also confirmed to recur in the show, and details about his upcoming role are also not yet available.
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Both stars join show regulars Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters who will also play new roles in the show's seventh season.
Paulson and Peters played a couple who fell in love on set during the show's sixth season, which was titled "Roanoke."
Previously, show producer Ryan Murphy shared that the seventh season of "American Horror Story" will be based on the recent elections, using the election night as a jump-off point of the story.
Murphy, however, clarified that the show will only use the elections as an allegory, "It is about the election we just went through and what happened on that night and the fallout of that night, which to many people, from all sides of the camps is a horror story," he said.
Previous speculations that Paulson might play Democrat Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, was already put to rest when Murphy also denied it, saying that it was not true.
Murphy also hinted that fans will get to see seasons seven and eight interconnected with the previous installments, just like how Lady Gaga's role in "Roanoke" was the reason for the witches in "Coven." "We lay a lot of pipe, and you'll see it explode in seasons seven and eight," Murphy said in a previous interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
"American Horror Story" season 7 does not have an announced premiere date yet.
