If you're an American Horror Story fan [1], you know the struggle. Each season wraps up and the hunt for hints about the next season begins. It's a largely fruitless affair, until Ryan Murphy finally decides to throw us a bone about which we can endlessly speculate. At this point, this premiere is on Wednesday night and we can still only theorize about small details [2]. Right now we're in the torturous waiting phase, and FX is determined to keep everything under wraps until the premiere. We know who is returning from the cast [3], but can only guess what the theme will be [4]. For your sanity's sake, we'll be rounding up the hints that each cast member has given us about the upcoming season — big and small, as long as they're concrete. So far, there are very few, and season six is coming today!
Ryan Murphy
- During the show's PaleyFest panel in March, Murphy hinted [8] that he's been working on two ideas for the next season, but he thinks he knows which is the winner. "Both things that we're writing right now — we haven't yet declared the winner — will have a different form than we've ever done, so we're excited about that," he said. "We'll talk about it soon, but we haven't landed on it." [9]
- Whichever one Murphy goes with, he knows it will involve "elements of children," as he said at PaleyFest [10].
- He also teased more possible crossovers [11] between seasons: "The deeper that we go into the series — hopefully we'll last decades and decades — you will see that there's a definite universe and all the worlds are collided, sometimes in a very bizarre, interesting way. You will be seeing more and more of that as we go along."
Angela Bassett
- Bassett was the first cast member confirmed [12] for the upcoming season. She spilled to Entertainment Weekly about what she's learned from creator Ryan Murphy: "He did tell me at the Golden Globes that I would imbibe a little bit too much and yet I was very inuitive also and maybe Sarah [Paulson] was somehow the boss of me."
Sarah Paulson
- When asked to describe her character, Paulson dropped the following hints [13]: "Real. Live. Human. And you're gonna see what I mean when you see it."
Evan Peters
- Evan Peters is extremely good at keeping secrets to himself. During a recent interview, denied that he had any information approximately two dozen times [14]. He did, however, confirm that he dyed his hair red for his role on the show.