Sarah Paulson has been in a relationship with actress Holland Taylor for years now, and she’s speaking out about their 32-year age gap.
In her Harper’s Bazaar cover story, Sarah, 45, was asked why the public seems fascinated that she’s dating Holland, 77.
Sarah said the preoccupation is because of “our own ageist thinking and the idea that to be old is to cease to have any desire…Anybody says anything about any person I love in a way that is disrespectful or cruel and I want to cut a b*tch.”
“To feel that I belong to anyone other than a person I would like to belong to, like Holland or my dog or my best friend or my sister … a bunch of strangers claiming me as their own feels a little confusing,” Sarah added. “Since I’m not an expert at figuring out how to move around it, I end up giving more than I want to sometimes.”
We don’t see Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor out and about in public together too often, but we have some rare new photos of the longtime couple!
The 77-year-old Hollywood actress and the 45-year-old American Horror Story actress were spotted shopping together on Melrose Place on Thursday (August 27) in West Hollywood, Calif.
Holland was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the Netflix limited series Hollywood. Perhaps they were looking for something for her to wear for the virtual ceremony next month?
Holland Taylor is opening up about one of her most loved films, Legally Blonde, in a brand new interview.
Speaking with Vulture, the 77-year-old actress, who played Professor Stromwell in the movie, revealed her most favorite scene.
“It was very well structured. Her whole demeanor at the beginning where she’s running the class — it’s wonderful to play as a woman, as an actress,” Holland says about the first scene she appears in, as Elle attends her first class at Harvard University. “I’ve been very lucky and for whatever reason, I get to play a lot of professional women. And professional women have their own world, their own identity, and their own character based on their profession.”
She continued, “The whole issue of what roles women play and what roles men play — women get to play the wife, the mother, the sister, the daughter. It’s always in relationship to the man. And it’s unconscious. That’s our unconscious image of the world because those are women’s places. So I’ve had a couple of best friend roles. But to have a profession allows you to play a role that is governed, that is shaped, by the profession. And to be a professional person in the legal field gives you an enormous sense of power and sway, because you know better than anybody.”
Holland goes on, saying that Professor Stromwell running “that classroom and to have all of the things one does with the student to teach them, and also to scare them, and to give them an unsolvable problem. It was very, very exciting.”
She also talked about working with Reese Witherspoon on the project, calling her remarkable, among other things.
“It’s a very clever idea, and a really charming entry into the area of women’s rights and the perception of women in our society,” she shared of the film. “And Reese is just remarkable.”
Holland adds, “She’s one of our marvelous actresses who has brought a number of roles that will be indelible culturally, and this is one of them. It was just a classic case of playing a professional person who had real resonance with the audience.”
You can watch Holland‘s favorite scene from the film below:
During a new interview with The Advocate, the 77-year-old Hollywood actress explained why she and the 45-year-old American Horror Story actress went public with their relationship.
“The relationship with Sarah became so public because she’s an enormous star and I was somewhat well-known,” Holland shared. “It became a news event and so I wasn’t going to deny it. Do you see what I’m saying? Other relationships that I had have not been with famous people. No other relationship I had would become a news event in that sense. When once that happened, there was no way not to just speak about it.”
Holland and Sarah have been together since 2015. Later in her interview, Holland discussed why she doesn’t like defining her sexuality.
“Well, if you said, ‘What is your sexuality?’ I’d say I’m gay,” Holland explained. “I really don’t like the definitions. I just feel like I’m a person. It’s not the major defining thing of my life. It’s not defining. I’m a human being. That’s defining.”
On quarantine with girlfriend Sarah Paulson: “Sarah has a house about five minutes from me. So we spend the long weekend up at her house, and I’m by myself here for two days, and we spend one day together here. So we go back and forth. That’s actually good to be moving around, to have change, because it’s like — life is really, really strange. And of course, I won’t be able to work until this is over. Except for very unusual circumstances. I don’t know what it will be like when actors can really be in a big film production, 150 people…I mean, we’re mostly together, and we both have a little time where you just don’t have anybody to answer to, without any sort of accommodating someone else’s plans. So it’s good for me because I’m older, and I’ve been so independent all my life, so it works out well.”
On Legally Blonde: “It’s a very clever idea, and a really charming entry into the area of women’s rights and the perception of women in our society. And Reese [Witherspoon] is just remarkable. She’s one of our marvelous actresses who has brought a number of roles that will be indelible culturally, and this is one of them. And it was just a classic case of playing a professional person who had real resonance with the audience. And her saying that one line, now I don’t even remember what it was — ‘If you’re going to let one stupid son of a bitch ruin your life…’”
On the privilege of acting: “I would say I think it is interesting to notice in my life that the free agency that I’ve had is not given to many women. And it’s a real privilege and it’s a real gift from good fortune to live an actor’s life, because it’s a highly privileged life. You have a lot of time off. You have a very changeable life. You have a life filled with not only the variety of your activity, but the variety of all the people that you’re thrown in the company of and the different places that you go. I think it’s a matchless life. And I’ve had a long, long, long career that has taken me far and wide and has brought so many remarkable people. Every job usually leaves you with a friend from that job who is a very valuable, savory taste of your life. So it’s a matchless life to have.”
Sandra Bullock celebrated her birthday on Sunday (July 26), where she turned 56 years old, with a socially distant birthday party!
Jennifer Aniston posted a selfie, taken by Sandra, of the birthday bash! All of the attendees are in masks to help mitigate the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, which has taken over the world in 2020.
“Celebrating our girl properly distanced with so much love,” Jennifer captioned the photo. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDY WE LOVE YOU!!!”
Netflix‘s brand new limited series Hollywood has its debut trailer!
The new series is from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. Here’s a synopsis: Hollywood follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day. Provocative and incisive, HOLLYWOOD exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.
