When Sarah Paulson arrived at Vogue’s podcast studio to tape this Tuesday’s episode of The Run-Through, she did so in spectacular fashion. And we mean that literally: She was in the exact Miu Miu look that Olivia Colman had recently worn down the runway in Paris.
“It hasn’t been washed, so I’m getting all of her bodily oils,” Paulson jokes to Chloe Malle. “I’m hoping that there’s some process where if I just grip it tightly enough, it’s gonna get pressed into my being, and I will then acquire some of her gift.”
Of course, Paulson hardly needs the help; she is currently promoting Season 2 of All’s Fair, the legal drama created by Ryan Murphy in which she stars with Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash, Teyana Taylor, Naomi Watts, and Glenn Close. Early next year, she will also return to Broadway in Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds.
With Season 13 of American Horror Story recently behind her, Paulson reveals that she’s said yes to every role Murphy has pitched her. (Consider that this year she also appeared in his Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.) “When he offered me Marcia Clark”—Paulson’s ultimately Emmy-winning role in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story—“I knew so many women were wanting it very aggressively,” she says. “And I don’t know why, to this day, he didn’t want a more famous person to do it. He was just really insistent that it be me. Doing that absolutely changed my life and changed my career totally.”
