When it comes to transforming for a role, few actresses do it better than Sarah Paulson. During her five seasons on FX's "American Horror Story" Paulson has proved herself quite the chameleon. Whether she's portraying a ghostly hooker or sideshow Siamese twins, there's little the multi-faceted actress can't tackle head on. For her latest role, as prosecutor Marcia Clark in "American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson," Paulson has once again pulled off an incredible transformation.
The 10-part series follows the 1994-95 trial of football star turned actor and commentator O.J. Simpson, who was arrested and tried for the brutal murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and family friend Ronald Goldman at her Brentwood, Calif., residence.
"Here's the deal, I'm not stupid, right," she says with a laugh. "Ryan Murphy has given me my career, so if he keeps looking at me and going, 'Do you want to come and do this?' I'm going to say, 'You want me? OK!' I don't know why I would not want to do it. If he asked me to do another 'American Crime Story' I would be so grateful."
In fact, Paulson already has a story in mind that she's exclusively revealing to Headlines and Global News in the hope Murphy is listening, although he does have ideas for the next story in the series.
"I think he's talking about Katrina, so I think that's what it's going to be," she says. "But I sort of want to play Tonya Harding, I don't think I've mentioned it to Ryan, but I would love to play Tonya Harding. Everyone asks, 'Wouldn't you want to be Nancy Kerrigan?' No, I want to be Tonya Harding."
"American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson" has a star-studded cast that also features John Travolta, David Schwimmer, Courtney B. Vance and Cuba Gooding Jr. as Simpson. It airs Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST on FX.
