Macaulay Culkin Is Joining the Cast of American Horror Story to Have 'Crazy' Sex With Kathy Bates

Philip Ellis

May 7, 2020 5:57 PM

Macaulay Culkin , the former child actor best known for his role in the Home Alone movies, is joining the cast of the long-running anthology show American Horror Story. Series creator Ryan Murphy recently confirmed that Culkin will be involved with the upcoming tenth season, and revealed that one particularly provocative moment in the script was what cinched it.

Macaulay Culkin to Have 'Crazy' Sex in 'AHS'

"So, I have this very, very great insane part," Murphy told E! . "And I asked to speak to him on the phone and he said OK... [When] I cast, I never let people read things, usually. I said, 'OK, here's the pitch.' And I told them the character and I told him he has crazy, erotic sex with Kathy Bates and does other things. And he paused and he goes, 'This sounds like the role I was born to play.' So, he signed up right then and there."

Stunt casting is a recurring theme in Murphy's projects , whether it's hiring pop superstar Lady Gaga to play a vampire in American Horror Story: Hotel, casting Friends actor David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian in The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, or bringing stage legend Patti LuPone into his recurring stable of actors in shows like Pose and Hollywood . Murphy specializes in coaxing eccentric, some might say unhinged performances from each of his cast members, and it sounds like Culkin's AHS debut will be no different.

"I have always loved Macaulay Culkin's work," Murphy said. "I loved everything that he's done, I love the stuff he did in Home Alone, I also loved the sort of the older, more recent stuff that he did... We're waiting for the crisis to be over because all those scripts are written and I'm excited for him to play that part. I'm excited for him to be in my world because I think...I'm gonna want to do a lot of things with him if he wants to work, because I think he's fascinating and interesting, and I think he has a soul. There's both a lightness and a darkness with Macaulay Culkin that I'm attracted to."

Culkin's future co-star, Kathy Bates, has appeared in several seasons of American Horror Story, each of which tells its own self-contained narrative, with previous iterations including an '80s-set slasher , a haunted house, a murderous cult, and a coven of witches.

Philip Ellis