Sarah Paulson knew the producers of "American Horror Story" wanted her to play a two-headed woman while she was still filming episodes for Season 3 ("Coven").
Since the show's writers entertain many notions that don't make it to air, she didn't take the idea too seriously.
"The [idea] was too insane. The writers can have the best-laid plans and then take a sharp-left turn," she says. "They knew it was going to be hard, time-consuming to shoot and expensive to create. I never thought they'd do it. I was as excited as I was terrified."
Her characterization of conjoined twins Bette and Dot Tattler has been one of the highlights of "American Horror Story: Freak Show," upstaging some of the hammier — and visually startling — members of Elsa Mars' (Jessica Lange) struggling Florida circus.
Paulson has been with the FX anthology series for several seasons now and has been asked to do some fairly freaky things — her sex scene with a bunch of snakes on "Coven" is a standout — but when she sang a duet with herself on Fiona Apple's "Criminal," she clearly entered new territory.
"We were able to record them separately," says Paulson. "I recorded the Dot part, which is her singing well. Then the Bette part, which was slightly off. I really had to work with the singing teacher that Jessica used."
The sisters have different personalities. While Bette is meek and soft-spoken, with a head full of Hollywood dreams, Dot is hard-bitten and realistic, dreaming of the day she can have surgery to free her of her sister.
"One is much more cynical and prone to entitlement. The other is hungry for love in a pure way. It's kind of beautiful," Paulson says. "I don't like either one more. It's the greatest challenge from an acting standpoint. I hope I'm creating two distinctive people."
Special effects make-up artist Justin Raleigh designed a series of animatronic heads that Paulson wears attached to her shoulder and body — courtesy of a rod that fits into a corset she wears under her wide-necked costumes.
"At first I thought I was never going to survive this, but the body just gets used to it," Paulson says. "The animatronic is heavy, but it's only used for big, high, wide shots, so I don't wear it that much."
Still, with Paulson bending her own neck for one of the twins, it has to hurt. She says that when the camera operators are taking their time to set up a shot and she's sitting there with her head drooping, she will tell them to hustle.
"She has a whole tent where we change the heads," says costume designer Lou Eyrich. "She's been quite a trouper. She never complains because she's so excited to do this."
Mirror, mirror: "It's kind of beautiful. I hope I'm creating two distinctive people," Paulson says of her conjoined characters.Photo: FX
With Paulson playing conjoined twins, Kathy Bates a bearded lady and Angela Bassett a woman with three breasts, it seems a fair question to ask: does the cast of "AHS" ever feel like they've all gone mad?
"It's the aisle of misfit toys," Paulson says of her colleagues. "If you're going to be a performer you have some part of yourself that is an outsider. There are very few television shows where there are no rules, and [show creator] Ryan Murphy has assembled a great group of actors who can go there and still hold on to a semblance of the truth.
"But sometimes you feel like somebody slipped you a mickey. We're not in Kansas anymore."
Though friendly with everyone on the show, Paulson — who is bisexual and has been romantically linked to actress Cherry Jones — shies away from talking about her love life.
"I'm not really interested in dating," she says. "I've got two heads. Who's got time to do anything else?"
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