“I’m having this new experience in my life of going, ‘Wow, I’m so proud of myself for high flying in this example,’” she admitted. “Ryan called me and was like, ‘Do you want to do this?’ And it flashed in front of me like, ‘People are going to compare it to Charlize and that’s going to be so—why would I do that? Why would I want to go out in the world and give a performance when someone has won an Oscar for that? Like, that’s some kind of psycho behavior on your part, Sarah Paulson.’ And then I thought, but I want to try.”
For Paulson, the opportunity to play Wuornos was payoff enough.
“I just feel the gratitude,” she added, emphasizing of Murphy, “He lets me do the craziest s–t.”
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