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Entertainment March 27, 2017
Ever since it was announced that the next series of “American Horror Story” would be a scary dramatization of the 2016 presidential race – and let’s face it, that election was a total horror show – speculation has grown over who would play Donald Trump.
Now a surprise name has entered the mix.
Emmy winning actress Sarah Paulson wants to be considered for the part. “That’s an acting challenge for sure,” she said, adding that she would happily wear prosthetics for the role.
It’s delicious to imagine how President Trump would react to be being portrayed by a woman, especially an LGBTQ icon like Paulson.
“I want to play Donald Trump,” she told the Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet at Sunday’s PaleyFest celebration of “American Horror Story,” for which she is a regular cast member. Paulson added, “If Donald Trump is going to be in a character in it, why not?”
Why not indeed? On “Saturday Night Live,” Melissa McCarthy portrays hapless press secretary Sean Spicer and Kate McKinnon impersonates impish attorney general Jeff Sessions and both performances have been widely praised. So the door has been opened to women playing members of the Trump administration on TV. Now maybe an actress could play Trump himself.
Paulson, 42, has emerged as one of the greatest actresses working today. She has been nominated for four Emmys for playing various characters on “American Horror Story” and finally won TV’s ultimate acting award for portraying Marcia Clark in 2016’s “The People v. O.J .Simpson: American Crime Story.” That series was produced by Ryan Murphy and so too is “American Horror Story.”
When she recently signed up for the election-themed seventh season of “AHS,” many fans assumed Paulson would get the Hillary Clinton part. But maybe that thinking was too obvious considering Ryan Murphy never likes to do the obvious.
As Paulson said at the PaleyFest fan celebration event in Hollywood, “Ryan has a very unique perspective on everything. He reinvents everything. Whatever the angle he’s going to take, it will be unique, which will make it new, which will make us interested and make our eyes and ears open probably in a way that we hadn’t thought about.”
The actress, who has also appeared in acclaimed films like “Carol” and “12 Years a Slave, has frequently used her fame as a platform to open people’s eyes and ears to the various LGBTQ causes she supports. She has gone public about her romantic relationship with “Two and a Half Men” star Holland Taylor, 74.
But Paulson, who has dated men as well as women in the past, refuses to label her sexuality. She told the New York Times last year, “If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that’s going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don’t want to feel that. What I can say absolutely is that I am in love, and that person happens to be Holland Taylor.”
The election-themed season of “American Horror Story” starts shooting in June and is due to be screened this fall on FX.
