Sarah Paulson Honored With A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

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On Tuesday, Sarah Paulson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where her partner, Holland Taylor, gave a very sweet (and descriptive) speech during the unveiling ceremony. “Sarah, the actress, is first of all a wild creature in the animal kingdom,” Taylor said, grinning proudly. “Warm-blooded, instinctive, mysterious. Nothing interferes with her laser perception of her character’s traits, its habitat, vulnerabilities, its heroism, its ugliness, terrible truths, its comic pathos. She zeros into a story’s central struggle, where most of us aren’t even aware of our own.”

Paulson as an actor is “dangerous,” Taylor said. “Not dangerous like a snake, more like a mongoose. You know, those darling little creatures that kill snakes.” “In her acting, you could say Sarah is deceptive, but you would be wrong,” she continued. “Her acting is as honest as a vow of faith, and as complicated as chemistry. She’s not deceiving us — she is practicing magic, a hat trick in flesh and blood.” Paulson’s secret, Taylor went on, “is her own humanity.” “She will fearlessly rush to play people who are discredited, pitied, despised, horrible, mean people, twisted, overlooked, misjudged,” she said. “The result is she is their defender, their rescuer, their restitution.”

Taylor also spoke about Paulson as a partner, calling her “the adventure you always wanted your life to be.” “I know the mongoose. I know the snake,” she said. “But mostly we know the deeply understanding, loving, and loyal person who is safety itself.”

“Hollywood does well to honor her,” Holland concluded. “And just in case she doesn’t know it, she has a permanent shining star on my street. I love you, darling.”

Paulson and Taylor have been together for over a decade. They began dating in 2015 but had met at a dinner party nearly ten years earlier, where Paulson told the New York Times she thought Taylor was “probably the most exquisitely beautiful woman I’d ever seen.” The two have an age gap of over 30 years — Paulson is 50, while Taylor is 82 — and Paulson said she sees this as a positive. “There’s a poignancy to being with someone older,” she said. “I think there’s a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what’s important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.”

Sounds like these two are ridiculously in love and also really good with words. I wonder if Taylor also finds it “warm-blooded” and “mysterious” when Paulson calls Kim Kardashian a discarded cum rag in All’s Fair? I bet she does.

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