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Jessica Lange has claimed her best American Horror Story character is from fans’ least favourite season.
The 77-year-old actress has returned to AHS for the current 13 season, which sees her reprise all four of her previous characters from Murder House, Asylum, Coven and Freak Show, and she has ranked them from best to last.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Jessica placed Elsa Mars, the manager of the titular Freak Show in season four, in the top spot.
She said: “Just because that was my favorite season.
“I loved the whole world we created there, and I always felt that set was like, you know, a long poem. It was just so wonderful
“And the characters that we brought in to be part of that freak show.”
Her favourite part of the run was getting the chance to “sing” as part of her character.
She added: “Nobody ever lets me sing. I can’t sing.”
Fans might be surprised, with Freak Show – which has a 77 percent rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes – on just 69 percent for the audience-rated Popcornmeter, which is the lowest of her four seasons.
Her second favourite character is actually a “toss up” between her Murder House role as Constance, and her turn as tyrannical nun Sister Jude in Asylum.
She said: “I’d put them both in the middle.”
Asylum is the highest rated of her four seasons according to Rotten Tomatoes’ Popcornmeter, with 90, while Murder House follows behind on 84.
With critics, the two seasons are scored at 84 and 72 respectively.
Jessica placed her role as former Supreme Fiona Goode from Coven as her least favourite, which reflects the season as a whole.
She explained: “I mean, the whole witch thing was less interesting to me.
“But there were some scenes with Fiona Goode that are some of my favourites, like the last scene with Danny Huston in the afterlife.”
In the finale of the 2014 run, Fiona has died from cancer and wakes up in her own personal hell, which sees her trapped with Huston’s character The Axeman, and forced to drink cheap wine.
Coven scored 85 percent with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and 76 percent with audiences.
Jessica had previously shut down the idea of ever returning to American Horror Story, but changed her mind after a conversation with Ryan Murphy.
She recently told Live With Kelly and Mark: “Ryan Murphy talked me into coming back.
“First, he talked to me about playing Constance, which I think was his favourite character that I did. But I said I’ll come back if I can do all four characters.”
