Although Ms. Mead From American Horror Story is Satan's most devoted follower actress Kathy Bates who plays the character couldn't be further from it . Bates is so against worshiping Satan that she refused to have Ms. Mead pray to Satan in the show.In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bates explained that she didn't want to pray to Satan, even in a role because she is :"a two-time cancer survivor" and she doesn't want to mess, "around with that"