Lady Gaga may relate to her American Horror Story character in superficial ways, but she also shares her need to be respected and taken seriously.

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Just like The Countess, the glamorous vampiric character Gaga plays on Hotel, the pop superstar is obsessed with art, fashion and people. It's easy to compare Gaga's own passions to The Countess', yet the similarities run deeper than one might expect.

Gaga spoke to Variety in a revealing new interview about wanting to be taken seriously as an actress and how she wants to be loved for who she really is, deep down.

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"I desperately so want for you all to love the real me and not the idea of me that you write about or see," she said. "[The Countess] wants everyone in this hotel to love her for who she really is, cunning or not. Cunning, evil - she feels that they're all here in this triumph of the hotel because of her. And she keeps them together and she wants to be rewarded for that, for who she really is, and not for anything else."

This is Gaga's first major acting project and she wanted it to count. She explained how she did not want to be seen as that singer wanting to expand her brand by branching out into the acting world.

"It's always been so important to me that if I were to ever to make a move in television or as an actress that it would never feel like a move and nobody would ever go, 'Oh, here she is trying to become an actress and put out a clothing line and a record label' - you know, that's sort of the thing that everyone expects, right? That it's time for my empire," she explained. "I don't give a f--- about that. It is completely unfulfilling to me. It does nothing for my soul. What I did want was to be taken seriously as an actress."

The star would not reveal if she is returning for season 6 of American Horror Story, which will air next year. However, she did tease that she "quite likes playing a killer."

Gaga does not have any official acting projects lined up following Hotel, according to IMDb, though she is rumored to have a role in Machete Kills in Space.

American Horror Story: Hotel airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on FX.

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