Playing an evil Madame LaLaurie– seriously, she’s a sadist — on “American Horror Story: Coven” has changed Kathy Bates.
The Oscar winner said “American Horror Story” has helped her find her way. Bates, who spent two seasons on “Harry’s Law” before NBC unceremoniously dumped the legal drama, said she was shy about what the next step in her career was going to be, but had floated the idea about being on “American Horror Story” to her friend and series star Jessica Lange.
“Sometime after [speaking to Lange] I had a double mastectomy and so I was really still reeling and healing from that when I was having my meeting with Ryan. I wasn’t really sure where to put my foot next in the business. I was so excited after that first meeting, I thought, ‘There is life after all.’ [Laughs.] I discovered that here in New Orleans,” Bates told The Huffington Post in a phone interview. “I’m not only enjoying doing the show down here, but I found a wonderful place to go — I need to have treatment on my arm because of lymphedema — and there’s a wonderful place here called the Center for Breast Reconstruction, which I’ve just discovered, and now I’m contemplating reconstruction for the first time since my surgery.”
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