In the GQ video segment, Evan Peters describes how he had no clue what “American Horror Story” would end up being, nor that it was going to end up as an anthology series. He does say that he was drawn to the way the character was written, but even here he seems to have taken it with a grain of salt.
“There’s a line about Indian blood, and like, talking about the dream that he had, and [Tate’s] like ‘I like that.'” The line that Peters is referring to is when sad and edgy Tate tells Violet (Taissa Farmiga) that Native Americans believed the blood contained bad spirits, and for that reason would cut themselves once a month to let the bad spirits out. Of course, Tate is mostly spouting off here. While some indigenous cultures around the world do engage in some form of bloodletting ritual, he’s more seizing the opportunity to be dark and macabre rather than sharing any actual knowledge about indigenous peoples. Maybe that’s why Peters saw it as kind of a throwaway line. It apparently stuck with Ryan Murphy, though. “I remember Ryan told me, you know, years later, he was like ‘because of the way you said that line, that’s why you got the role.'”
Peters was taken aback when Murphy told him this. “I was like ‘oh… cool.’ But I wasn’t really thinking about that line.” Just goes to show, you can never tell when a casting director is really paying attention.
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