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AP: How did Ryan Murphy get you on board for three seasons of "American Horror Story"? Lange: He called me up out of the blue -- I had never met him -- and started talking. And I just thought, "Wow, he's got quite a spiel here. This is really something." I haven't been kind of seduced like this in a long time. And you know he has a kind of uncanny intelligence about this, a talent, genius in a way, and it became something really fascinating. ... He keeps kind of dangling that carrot out there. It's hard to say no. AP: What can you tell us about your new "Coven" character Fiona Goode? Lange: It's a woman who has ... all the powers in the world, and again I think it's a metaphor for a lot of different things, and who misuses it for the most selfish, self-serving purposes. You know, has that kind of confrontation with her own mortality, finally, and realizes, you know, a wasted life. And what do you do at this age when you think, "I've wasted it all? I've thrown it all away?" ... That's a little bit of where that character is coming from, and I don't know where she's going, to tell you the truth. I never know. AP: What does success mean to you at this point in your career? Lange: Box-office success has never meant anything. I've never been so-called "box office." I mean I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not "box office" and never have been and that's never entered into my kind of mindset here. ... It is the kind of acknowledgment by other actors, really. That's really what is most meaningful.
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