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Sarah Paulson Admits She Wasn’t a Fan of “American Horror Story: Roanoke”

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“American Horror Story” just isn’t “American Horror Story” without series mainstay Sarah Paulson, but there’s one season Paulson admits she wasn’t all that happy being part of.

The sixth season of FX’s anthology series, “American Horror Story: Roanoke” cast Paulson in three different roles, with the first half taking the form of a paranormal documentary titled “My Roanoke Nightmare” and the second half bringing the show’s reenactors and their real-world counterparts together for a found footage tale involving ghosts of Roanoke’s past.

As it turns out, it’s the one season Paulson wishes she could’ve gotten out of.

“I just don’t care about this season at all,” Paulson recently admitted on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, brought to our attention by Entertainment Weekly.

Paulson continues, “I know people will get mad at me for saying it, but for me, this was post having played Marcia [Clark in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”] and it was what I went to do right after finishing Marcia. I was so underwhelmed by the whole experience, because I felt like I had entered into a new place inside of myself in terms of what I thought possible, in terms of what I might be willing to see if I can do. I felt really kind of trapped by my responsibility and my contractual obligation to do American Horror Story.”

“As much as it’s my home, and I’ve loved it always, it was the first time I felt like I wish I could have gone to Ryan [Murphy] and said, ‘Please let me sit this one out’,” she adds.

Sarah Paulson will return to the world of “American Horror Story” in “American Horror Story: Double Feature” this year. Here’s hoping it’s a season she’s proud of being involved in.

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Don’t Forget There’s an “Alien” TV Series Too! Here’s the Latest Update

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Pictured: 'Alien: Covenant'

There’s a lot going on in the world of Alien at the moment. The original classic is returning to theaters, for starters, and the Xenomorphs will be fighting Marvel’s superheroes in the upcoming mashup comic Aliens vs. Avengers. Of course, the main event for 2024 is Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a brand new big screen movie set between Alien and Aliens!

With so much going on, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Disney is also working on an “Alien” television series, in the works for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”).

The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.

FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

So what’s the latest on the “Alien” TV series? Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.

According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”

Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”

Sandra Yi Sencindiver in “Foundation”

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