Sarah Paulson takes Broadway for a shocking spin in ‘Appropriate’
nypost.com2020 Ryan Murphy series “Ratched.” And she’s currently excavating the complicated, curdled psyche of the lead character in “Appropriate,” the critically adored Broadway play that just had its run extended to June.But when Paulson joins me in a loungey nook upstairs at the Hayes Theater, her first order of business is making things more comfortable. “So awful!” she says, gesturing at the fluorescent lights. “I tell them, ‘Guys, you can’t do this to people!’” After she’s dimmed the white-hot glare and turned on a more civilized lamp, she settles into a chair, The Row cream sweater and wide black pants nestling around her.
Adidas Sambas, plus a Foundrae necklace and Cartier bracelet, complete the classic look.Warm, funny and attuned to little details, Paulson couldn’t be more different from her character, Antoinette “Toni” Lafayette.
It’s a return to her stage origins — Paulson got her start understudying Amy Ryan in the 1993 Broadway production of “The Sisters Rosensweig.” She has long been fabulous in the public eye; she’s unapologetically queer, and usually clad in something epic.
For almost a decade, she’s been partners with the equally formidable actress Holland Taylor (although they have no plans to work together).
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