“Honestly, I feel that ever since the blood orgy I did with Lady Gaga, everything is pretty tame after that,” Bomer said in the interview. “I was head to toe Carrie prom scene-esque levels of blood. They basically wrapped us up like sardines in a tarp in between takes of that [scene]. It was Gaga and I, and these two wonderful actors who we’d just met 10 minutes before, lying on a tarp next to each other sandwiched in. And they’d peel the tarp off and we’d do the next take. It was very strange. So after that, any amount of corn syrup [for fake blood] is pretty tame. That was a wild experience. It was certainly memorable.”
Bomer told The Hollywood Reporter when the 2016 episode first aired that he felt uneasy filming the racy scene, but that Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) was so relatable and approachable that she made it easier. The enigmatic pop star, who earned a Golden Globe Award that year for her role in AHS: Hotel, broke down why the scene was not just “provocative” for obvious reasons, but how it provoked a deeper, more personal element of Murphy’s storytelling.
“I don’t just simply do things because they are provocative or because they are shocking,” she told THR. “I’m doing it because the story that [Ryan Murphy] is telling about addiction, the story that he’s telling about our own narcissism, the story that he’s telling bout how the human being strives to survive within the challenges of the universe — that to me is what makes the sex so good.”
