We hate her.’ It was like, ‘Oh, good,’ waiting for my 6 a.m. “It was like ‘Good morning TCA-’ ‘We hate it. Devastating.”Įven more challenging was receiving the feedback while she was still shooting the FX limited series. And it’s hard, I think, to rewrite what we’ve already written and subscribed to in our minds, so it shouldn’t surprise you, but I found it to be utterly devastating. There are real truths about things that Linda did that are just undeniable. And they didn’t want to be invited inside the experience because she was a person who betrayed someone and all that is true. Paulson, on stage with executive producer Nina Jacobson, showrunner Sarah Burgess, producer Monica Lewinsky, and co-stars Annaleigh Ashford, Margo Martindale, Judith Light, Mira Sorvino, and Beanie Feldstein (via Zoom), explained that hearing those early reactions made her feel like “nobody wanted to challenge their experience or expectation of what she was, and what they thought her to be.
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