Sarah Paulson doesn’t hold back when it comes to a fellow actress who gave her unwanted feedback about a role.
The Emmy Award-winning star stopped by the latest episode of the show not smart podcast when she talked about the “hideous” experience of hosts and fellow panellists Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.
The group was in the middle of talking about the theatrical custom of celebrities returning backstage after a show to meet the cast, when Paulson unleashed.
“I did a play once. The last time I was on stage, I did a play called Next crap In Vertigo, the actress – and I’ll say this, and I’m not going to ask you to delete this, because I don’t care – this actress came to the play. Her name is Trish Hawkins – Hi Trish! Hi Trisha!” Paulson began. “Trish Hawkins came to the play – am I going to get sued? I don’t care, because I think that’s outrageous.”
She continued: “But she came to the play, and she proceeded to say – she looked me up and down, and then she said, ‘Your dress was yellow, and mine was pink.’ And I thought: What?
It turns out that Hawkins created the role of Sally Talley in the film Foley follows both during its 1979 Off-Broadway run and its 1980 Broadway debut. Paulson, meanwhile, played the same character in the romantic comedy, written by Lanford Wilson, in an Off-Broadway revival in 2013.
According to Paulson, her mother brought Hawkins with her to the play because the two were “in some kind of writing group together.”
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“Two days later, I received an email with six pages of notes and a letter to me about what she did when she finished the play, and what she recommended to me,” Paulson added. It was truly hideous, Trish Hawkins, I haven’t forgotten it, and I hope I’ll never see you again.
This apparently upset Paulson, who told the group that she actually still had the notes, but had never said anything to her mother about the incident.
“I just put it back in the folder of things my mom did,” she said. EW has reached out to Hawkins for comment.
Before continuing the conversation, Arnett expressed support for Paulson’s brutal candor.
“I don’t know you as well as those guys, and I have a real feeling that we’re going to be better friends than they could ever imagine,” he said, adding: “I love you for saying that, so f—- a lot.”
Listen in full not smart Episode with Paulson in the video above.
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