Sarah Paulson on playing Nurse Ratched and Linda Tripp
While sharing some of the first details about Netflix's Nurse #Ratched series and FX's #ACSImpeachment, Sarah Paulson says of the challenging roles, "It’s our job to represent all kinds of people without judgment" https://t.co/VSoWl75348
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 13, 2019
"Ratched was complicated and dark and not what I expected, and totally terrifying. It’s more psychological than murder-scary where somebody jumps out from behind you. It’s sort of a meditation on someone’s psychological strengths or weaknesses. What I found really interesting is that people prescribe such villainy to her and the truth of the matter is that she really was a product of her time. Part of the conceit of the movie is that you fall in love with all the men and their friendship, but you never want the killjoy coming in to say, 'We have to follow the rules.' But she was, in her way, trying to offer them help, just with devastating consequences. [But] there was no mustache-twisting. There was a real steadiness and a stillness to her that I like to try to steal."
On playing Linda Tripp in FX's ACS: Impeachment series, "There’s no way for me to approach playing her as a way of thinking how to redeem her. I don’t know that it's redeemable, some of what she did to her friend. But I am interested in what causes people to behave in ways that make no sense and that lack a moral compass and that have a real suspect intentionality. I’m curious about what makes people like that do what they do. And not in an effort to reveal her to be Glinda the Good Witch - I am interested in understanding the psychology of the 'why?'" Paulson also said that she would be gaining some weight for the role because "I didn’t really feel like it would be a great idea for me to come to work putting on some faux suit and be all pumped up with prosthetics and not be able to move my face or feel the feelings that she might have been feeling."
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