I cared about craft and I cared about really working on constructing
something that wasn’t dependent on whether not somebody liked me and
that wasn’t about my personality. I hate doing work where
I have to act like myself. I don’t know how to act like myself on
camera.
I was just off to do House of Cards and we had been in the process of filming and a nuclear bomb went off and Ryan very graciously said, “What you need right now is to act with extraordinary women.” All of my role models as an artist have always been women actors. When he said, “I want you do Horror Story. You’ll be opposite Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates,” I burst into tears. He said my character had long hair with an affinity for capes and that’s all I needed to know.