Yahoo Lifestyle Sarah Paulson Says Impeachment’s Linda Tripp Is ‘the Greatest Work I’ve Ever Done,’ But ‘Nobody Liked Me In It’
Sarah Paulson has earned many accolades in her acting career, but she believes her best role didn’t earn enough acclaim.
In a Q&A session following a screening of her new movie Hold Your Breath in L.A. on Saturday, per The Hollywood Reporter, Paulson recalled playing infamous whistleblower Linda Tripp in FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story and the critical drubbing the series took: “Nobody liked that program, and nobody liked me in it except for me. Critically, they were like, ‘She suuucks.’ But, to me, it’s the greatest work that I’ve ever done — to me.”
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In Impeachment, the third installment of the American Crime Story anthology which aired in 2021, Paulson led a cast that included Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky, Clive Owen as Bill Clinton and Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton, with the series covering the impeachment of President Bill Clinton following the revelation that he had an affair with Lewinsky while she was a White House intern. Reviews were mixed but not altogether negative, with Impeachment earning a 69% approval score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Paulson even earned an Emmy nomination for best lead actress in a limited series or anthology for her work as Tripp in Impeachment, but she lost out to Amanda Seyfried, who won for playing Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout. Paulson has a total of nine Emmy nominations to her credit so far, with a win in 2016 for playing prosecutor Marcia Clark in The People v. O.J. Simpson, the first season of American Crime Story.
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