De Amerikaanse website Collider had een interview met de acteur John Carroll Lynch aka Twisty the clown uit American Horror Story: Freakshow. Deze man heeft dankzij een masker en make up er voor gezorgd dat er een hele generatie TV kijkers nu trauma voor clowns heeft opgelopen.

Anyone who's afraid of clowns will find Twisty horrifying, and anyone not afraid of clowns before watching Season 4 will be. Were you aware of the deep fear of clowns that many people seem to have?

LYNCH: Yeah. My family has a few people who are afraid of clowns and, for the most part, this won't help them. I've told them not to watch and, hopefully, they'll heed my warning. I've never been a person who's afraid of clowns. And gratefully, since I don't have to be afraid of Twisty, I'm still okay. America is also apparently running out of clowns. Ringling Bros. and other people who need clowns are running out of clowns, and I don't think this is gonna help.

Did you have any idea just how horrific this clown would look and behave, or was there an evolution?

LYNCH: There was definitely an evolution. Not of the look, per se. That became very clear, right away. But, there was definitely an evolution of my understanding of the clown. The way each episode unfolds helped me get clearer and clearer, as to what I was doing. I'm doing a lot of stuff that you will never see or hear because of the silence of the character. And there are a lot of things that I've never tried before because the character is silent. It was really fun to be challenged, in the way that this character challenged me.