Sarah Paulson hoping to direct American Horror Story spinoff

By Neil Wilkes, Editor-in-chief | 2d

Sarah Paulson reveals that she has had talks about directing the upcoming American Horror Story spinoff series.

Sarah Paulson has revealed her ambition to serve as director on the upcoming American Horror Story spinoff.

Show creator Ryan Murphy recently revealed that he is developing a new series called American Horror Stories, a collection of one-off standalone episodes featuring cast members from the main show.

Paulson has appeared in eight of the nine seasons of AHS - also directing an episode in season eight - and is a frequent collaborator with Murphy, appearing in his other shows Feud and American Crime Story.

Asked about the new show in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she replied: "I can't say anything about it except for that I hope to be directing the new [series]. I hope that will in fact come to fruition. Not with anything official, but in fun, playful conversations with the man, that has been floated about. So hopefully!

"And you have to say it like that. You have to use the words I'm using: 'Floated about, nothing official, but conversations, fun conversations I've had with him that might full well turn out to be nothing.' Which would be really exciting to me because I have to say, that one episode I directed was a really confronting experience for me, because I realised how much of a 'hair on fire' kind of person I am rather than a 'go with the flow' kind of person.

"So I would really like to have another opportunity to be in that world that obviously, having been in for so many years, I feel about as comfortable as one could feel trying my hand at that. I would like to do more of it, but I would also like to have more experience doing it. So for my second round up at bat, I would love it to be in that world.

"And of course I want to be in it, too. There's no American Horror Story spinoff, movie, play, projection from space that I would not want to be a part of if I could be."

Production of the upcoming 10th season of AHS is currently on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, but Murphy has hinted that filming might resume this summer.