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‘American Horror Story’ Co-Creator Ryan Murphy appeared on Andy Cohen’s ’Watch What Happens Live’ last night, February 6th and confirmed that Golden Globe winner Jessica Lange will return for Season 2. Cohen asked Murphy if ‘Jessica Lange will make an appearance’ and Murphy said, ‘Yes.’

Murphy guested with ‘Ringer’ star Sarah Michelle Gellar on WWHL and in an After Show segment, a huge fan of SMG called in to ask Murphy if he would ever use her on ‘Glee’. Murphy said he would use her on anything. Then he made an AHS reach out to Gellar saying:

‘I want Sarah to come on American Horror and do like 1 episode as some great thing, a part that I would write for her, like something glamorous and sexy— [looks at Gellar] you could do that.’

Gellar said, ‘That would be fun’ and ‘I could try’.

In more After Show web-only videos, Cohen Murphy a question from a viewer: ‘Who else will be returning to ‘American Horror Story’ and what’s the location?’ Advertisement

Murphy replied:

‘It’s gonna be somewhere on the East Coast and it’s going to be in a horror institution. I’m in negotiations with 4 of the people who were in last year’s show. None of them were the Harmons. None of the deals have closed, so I can’t say.’

We already know that Murphy teased to EW that the clues for Season 2’s theme/location are somewhere in Episode 11, ‘Birth’.

Here’s a possible location as to where those clues are found. In the scene where Billie Dean is talking to Violet about trying to get the evil spirits out of the house, she says:

‘The evil, it’s a force. Just like any other Violet. Pure physics. Real and powerful. Created by events that unleash psychic energy into the environment where it’s absorbed. Like the way a battery stores energy. You’ll see it all the time in places like prisons or asylums. Negative energy feeds on trauma and pain. It draws those things to it. The force here in this house is larger than the many individual traumas and has a need. It wants to break through. It wants to move in our world. It’s using those trapped between this world and the next.’

So obviously, the place or horror institution could be a prison or a mental hospital. Some mental hospitals have been historically known (long ago) to be places where inhumane treatment, e.g. shock treatments and lobotomies and other tortures have occurred.

Also, trauma could be the theme and the patients could have individually experienced traumas that ultimately drove them to be institutionalized.

No further details were given on the length of Jessica Lange’s stay, or if she will return as Constance Langdon, or a different character. As for thoughts on the other returning cast members, Murphy did mention to the caller that he loves Zachary Quinto.

Taissa Farmiga is ruled out as a Harmon, but, fan favorite Evan Peters, Denis O’Hare and Frances Conroy are still fair game.

Who do you hope returns for Season 2? I’d love to read your comments below.

‘American Horror Story’ returns to FX Network this Fall 2012.