4 New Scream Queens Details That Will Only Make You More Excited

We know why Jamie Lee Curtis was cast — "She is the original scream queen," as Ryan Murphy asserted, but we didn't know that the show may not have happened without her. Murphy said that he's a huge fan of hers and has been trying to work with her for years. When Curtis met with him and executive producer Brad Falchuk about potentially starring, Murphy said they told her, "'If you don't do it, we're not going to do the show.'" Murphy said she took a day to think about it, and then said she was in.