It’s always good when someone parachutes into New Orleans to work and ends up *getting* it:
But Lange’s favorite character on this season of American Horror Story
may just be New Orleans itself. “There’s Madame LaLaurie, there’s Fiona
Goode, there’s Marie Laveau, there’s New Orleans. It’s unique in this
country I think, that city. It has this extraordinary ability to live in
the past and the present. Time kind of melds. I don’t know any other
place like that. And so authentic still, to its culture and to the
people. You feel on the street what these people feel about this place. I
mean, you walk down the streets of New York and everybody just looks so
unhappy,” she notes with a laugh, staring out the window above Times
Square. “They’re not all that happy to be here. But in New Orleans, you
get this sense that this is home and we’re connected. We’re connected
through generations and we’re connected through the arts and the music
and the food and the culture. I mean, it permeates the air … not to
paint too rosy a picture because there’s a lot of darkness there, but
what I find fascinating is how you can be in a place where you sense the
decay and the decadence and the elegance and the spirit and everything
is just moving together.”