Dunham plays the psycho feminist who shot Warhol. Should be easy role for her.
Evan Peters' Kai reflects many different cult leaders
Peters' character reflects at least six cult leaders, including Manson, David Koresh and Jim Jones. Kai, who exults in Trump's victory, decides to run for city council and eventually the U.S. Senate, Murphy said.
Murphy said he had been thinking for years about centering a season on Manson. This year, he decided to look at a charismatic leader who can harness people's turbulent emotions and build a following. "How do those people rise to power and why do people follow them?"
Girls' Lena Dunham will play Valerie Solanas, who shot Andy Warhol
Valerie "attempted to shoot Andy Warhol because she felt denied into the cult of personality that was Warhol and The Factory at the time," Murphy said. The episode, the season's seventh, "is about the female rage then and in the country now."
The unified hate for Trump was stale one week into his candidacy.
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