Kathy Bates won’t appear in American Horror Story: Cult, the upcoming election-focused installment of Ryan Murphy’s anthology horror series.
There, Bates stars as Ruth, a perpetually stoned Los Angeles cannabis-lover living out her longtime dream as a dispensary owner.
According to THR, Bates couldn’t commit because of a scheduling conflict with her upcoming Netflix series, the Chuck Lorre-created pot comedy Disjointed, which debuts ahead of AHS on Aug. 25.
American Horror Story: Cult premieres on FX on September 5th.