**Emma Roberts: **I was completely oblivious to it and was just like, "Yay! Yay!" and then the first script showed up and there was that rape scene and I was like, "Oh my God, I'm so excited to be on this show, but geez this is heavy right out of the gate." Later down the line there was a sex scene with Spalding that actually got cut out and it was pretty messed up. And then the threesome thing, which they actually toned down a bit. It was more explicit on paper. So it's been crazy, but it's been fun. I used to be _so _terrified of having to do scenes like that. I came onto this show thinking, "You know what? There's going to be stuff that's twisted. I know there's going to be sex, but I'm just going to go for it because I have to get over it someday." So, yeah, I got over it. [Laughs]

GQ: Wait a second. Let's go back to this Spalding scene. Are we talking straight up Necrophilia here?

Emma Roberts: Oh my God, yeah. So crazy. I know. When I was reading the script, I was literally squealing and my jaw dropped and I was laughing and shocked. It's fun. I've never worked on something where I'm so excited to read my work for the week. Usually you're like, "Oh, I'll look at that stuff later," and instead I'm like, "Deliver it to my house. You can drop it off right now." I literally read it the second I get it.

GQ: Did Ryan tell you before you started that some people were probably going to just hate Madison?

**Emma Roberts: **He didn't say it in those words, but he did say that she's definitely a bitch. I started playing her, in my mind, as someone who doesn't think they're a bitch. She thinks that she's doing everyone a favor by being honest. I think that's how I've maintained some likability with her. I don't think she thinks that she's being rude. I think she thinks like, "I'm doing you a favor by telling you that you look ugly." And that's kind of what makes her fun.

GQ: I think we saw this past week, as well, that she's really kind of broken inside. She's hurting.

Emma Roberts: Definitely. She's sad. There's definitely a lot more going on and I think a lot of her bitchiness comes from the fact that she's dealing with things like you saw in last week's episode. She thought that she and Zoe and Kyle were going to be together. She thought that was cool and she felt betrayed. I think what you'll see coming up on the show soon is fueled a lot by the rejection she felt from the two of them. She's lonely. She hasn't really found anyone that she clicks with. There are moments, though, where you see her show that she is in a sisterhood with these girls, but she's very quick to flip it around if you don't have her back immediately.

GQ: It seems like you've essentially had to play three different versions of the same character: Pre-death Madison, then right after she was resurrected, and now this current version. How do you put your head around that, as an actor?

**Emma Roberts: **I know. It's kind of crazy. Luckily, it's not like a movie where everything is shot out of order. On the show, you're shooting everything more in the correct order so you get to go on the journey with her. We tried to switch up her wardrobe a little. When she came back to life, she wore a lot more black. We called it "Resurrection Chic" and so whenever I would get dressed in the morning I would say, "Are we doing Hervé Léger or ‘Resurrection Chic'?" So it's now become, on set, a thing that if you die and come back to life you're "Resurrection Chic." [Laughs]