On Wednesday, Season 4 of "American Horror Story" will premiere on FX, and those bold enough to watch will get to meet the members of the "Freak Show."

The new season takes place in 1952 Jupiter, Florida and stars Jessica Lange as a German woman who has been managing a freak show -- one of the last ones left in America -- since the 1930s.

In addition to its regulars, including Sarah Paulson as conjoined twins Bette and Dot and Angela Bassett as a three-breasted woman, the season has added new blood, including Erika Ervin, a transgender.

According to Huffington Post, Ervin plays Amazon Eve on "Freak Show." Ervin said the part was originally written for a man.

"I auditioned for the part as a guy, slicked back my hair, no make-up ... flannel shirt, bound my breasts, dropped my voice and walked in, and nailed it," Ervin said in the FX interview below.

Ervin is also known for playing Shelley Godfrey on Netflix's "Hemlock Grove."

"My first inkling of knowing I was different was when I was about 4 or 5," the star said. "It was an issue of gender ... it's not until later on that I discovered there was a way to fix it."

Hopefully, "American Horror Story: Freak Show" will show her estranged father that she can "make it on TV and film," Ervin said. In fact, she thinks the show could help the entire transgender community.

"It's more than a freak show," she explained. "There's a family here."

In addition, Jyoti Amge, a 20-year-old from Nagpur, India has joined Ryan Murphy's series as Ma Petite. Amge is 2'6'' and is the shortest woman in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records, People magazine reports.

"My character not dangerous, very funny and very innocent," Amge said. "She always stays with Elsa [Lange's character], looks after her and wants her wellbeing."

Amge is not likely to get any taller. She has a type of dwarfism called achondroplasia.

"Everybody loves me so much,she said. "They just want to carry me around. Sometimes I think to myself, 'When am I going to stand?' because I'm being carried all day."

"American Horror Story: Freak Show" premieres on Wednesday at 10 p.m.

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