American Horror Story season 9: Evan Peters reveals he will not return for new episodes
It’s the first time the actor won’t have a role in FX’s long-running anthology series, which is set to debut its ninth season later this year
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Your support makes all the difference.Evan Peters has revealed he won’t star in the upcoming season of American Horror Story.
It’s the first time the actor won’t have a role in FX’s long-running anthology series, which is set to debut its ninth season later this year.
While attending WonderCon, Peters told a producer for Extra: “No, I’m going to sit a season out.”
He had previously spoken about feeling “exhausted” by his sinister, often gruesome roles on the show. Speaking to GQ, he said: “It’s just exhausting. It’s really mentally draining, and you don’t want to go to those places ever in your life.
“And so you have to go there for the scenes, and it ends up integrating it somehow into your life. You’re in traffic and you find yourself screaming and you’re like, 'What the hell? This isn’t who I am.'”
He later told GQ Style that he plans to “take a break” from acting. He'll next be seen as Quicksilver in the new X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, which will be released in UK cinemas on 5 June.
“I think it was a full-on burnout,” he said. “I’m going to take a break, regroup, decompress, get back in touch with what I feel like I want to do. Not that I didn’t want to do any of those roles – they’re exactly what I wanted to do. It was just zero to 100 instantaneously. I want to play music.”
The only confirmed cast members for season nine are currently Gus Kenworthy and Emma Roberts, who will play a couple on the show. A theme is also yet to be announced.
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