Ever since Jessica Lange departed American Horror Story at the end of last season, the show has been missing a little bit of its icy-blonde-screen-goddess gravitas. Could Cate Blanchett step in to fill Lange’s incredibly stylish shoes?

Let’s be very honest for a second. No, she probably won’t. But that didn’t stop Vulture from asking Blanchett at the MoMA Film benefit on Tuesday. First, they got the actress on the subject of her Carol co-star, Sarah Paulson. “Am I desperate to work with her again? Yes,” Blanchett gushed of the American Horror Story star. “She’s brilliant. I’ve long admired her onstage and on-screen, and it was such a pleasure to work with her. In every gesture and every look, she just speaks volumes.” But is Blanchett so desperate to work with Paulson again she’d consider American Horror Story? “You know, she hasn’t asked!” Blanchett told Vulture politely. “[But] yeah, if she asked me.”

This is likely Blanchett being her most gracious and diplomatic self, but is there really a world where this could happen? Ryan Murphy has become quite the power player in Hollywood and has made a habit of collecting grande dames and Oscar winners like Lange, Kathy Bates, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, and __Barbra Streisand as his friends and leading ladies. Has Blanchett unwittingly given him the key to adding her name to the list? Once again, it’s unlikely. But in a world where the likes of Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and Kirsten Dunst are happily signing up for TV, a Blanchett cameo in American Horror Story doesn’t seem as unreasonable as it once did.