Prepare to see Naomi Grossman’s American Horror Story character in a whole new light on the next Freak Show on Wednesday. Grossman, whose breakout role as Pepper in the second season of American Horror Story: Asylum, endeared her to viewers, turns in a heartbreaking performance that will leave viewers grabbing for the tissues. We first met Pepper in the premiere episode of Asylum when she asked Lana Winters (played by Sarah Paulson) to play with her in the Briarcliff yard and that’s where we say goodbye. The character returned as part of Fraulein Elsa’s Cabinet of Curiosities in the fourth season, but Grossman didn’t know she’d get to fully explore the harrowing tail of Pepper. The episode, “Orphans,” tells Pepper’s story all the way through the 1960s and her entrance to Briarcliff and airs Wednesday at 10 p.m. on FX.
