Sarah Paulson on "Incredibly Grounding" Friendship With Amanda Peet: "It's Just Home to Me" | PEOPLE

i mean i love you but i just don't ever want to like add well because i just feel like particularly because i you know live with a woman people think that i must really really want to kiss you and the answer is i really don't like at all does it seem like the lady doth protest too much no one's more beautiful it's just you know you're not for me you need to be like 80 years older just kidding guys there was a show called jack and jill that was going to be on the wb in the 90s that was on the deck it was on the wp i was replacing an actress they i asked to see the pilot so i could see if i wanted to do it i saw the pilot i called my agent i said is that woman who's blonde is she still gonna be in it because i thought she was for me the attraction to the show and he said yes not only that but we represent her and i think you're going to get on like a house on fire and then the first day we met each other in the makeup trailer we just basically we just couldn't stop laughing basically within like 30 seconds seconds we were incapacitated like the kind of laughing where you might have to call an ambulance you should be wearing a diaper yeah yeah that's problematic it's actually believe me it's been problematic it's really good it was an ensemble show with a lot of other wonderful actors and we must be misbehaving especially me but you too me we were just we had a problem getting through things without laughing so there there is a scar yeah there was a time when we tried to cover my face i was on the she's supposed to be an anaphylactic she had to come over i had to be over her yeah and the only thing we could think of to do was cover my face they kept being amanda and they're like move the scars we can't see your face and you're like that's that's what we're trying to do dude like we're trying to help you get the shot you idiots nobody by the way thinks it's funny we do that's part of the problem is that we're laughing and everyone else is like but just think about it there's people and they're like this is a problem nobody knows what you're talking about well i wasn't allowed to be laughing she was supposed to be an anaphylactic shock like on the floor which in it and of itself is very funny and then all of the friends were just like are you okay and the camera was coming over bird's face onto my face so both of us were in the camera and i couldn't stop i couldn't be still i couldn't do it i actually couldn't do it you can't do it now that's what's happening my friendship is very long one of the longest of my life i know one i've known one person outside of my sister as longer than i've known bird um i would describe the friendship for me to be like um a lighthouse like it's just the only it's the only way i can see sure from any where i'm currently standing please don't maybe cry honey i'm sorry right now i you're gonna cry well i don't know what's happening it's because i'm 50. you you know i think it was like that oh but the point is is that i just uh i find it incredibly a grounding friendship but also a wildly chaotic in the most fun way possible and there's um it's just home to me my friendship with amanda which sounds weird bird we do have a sense of humor weird issue it's like a weird weird it's meaning we see things that are to us hilarious that other people i think find a not funny and be really irritating if they're trying to be around us because things don't get done we can't leave the house and there might be a drive you can't drive there's been a couple of um beer restaurants yeah we can't be in a restaurant can't be anywhere we were to play once and i it was she described as one of the worst nights of her life to me it was one of the greatest because i love that feeling of the danger component of laughing when you're not supposed to um and that's probably because i'm really juvenile but for her it was like it was funny it was the funniest thing that ever happened we had to pretend we were watching a broadway play something very dramatic was happening on stage i whispered something to her we started laughing in a way and her breath fluffed my hair and then we had to try to be quiet and all we could hear was the experience she was pointing out something funny that was on stage that i was trying to ignore right and i brought it to her attention but she had apparently also been thinking about it and then we started laughing in a way where the person sitting next to us you could hear a pin drop in the theater was very quiet but you could hear like that and then we had to pretend to the person sitting next to us who kept looking at us that we were sobbing so we were like this is sort of schmaltzy but um i was there when her first baby came out of her body like in the room like watched all of all of it happening and it was like very wild and very very poignant and the second her second child i wasn't allowed in the room the room was smaller um she was giving birth in a different city so my mom got there yeah yeah and we were like outside the door listening to everything that was happening um so you know those are kind of very special things and i don't have children i made a wise choice for myself and she has the mother of three very special kids and two of whom i was like right there when they that first one was was a real wild thing and now she's a 15 year old person walking around like who like who like has a crush on her you know she just her friends think it's cool because they want yeah i get street cred for being bird's friend from my daughter right and i actually am close enough to her where i'm actually like i actually need you to call do something i need you to make me look cool right now right and i do it and she does it [Music] we used to try to go to the movies in the old days we would go shopping because we would go to the mall and so we would go to shop really ostensibly we were supposed to be going to a movie and then we would miss the movie because we were trying on 18 pairs of pants none of which looked good and also there was the time sheet this is this is a true testament to our friendship i tried on some pants oh yeah she comes over to do a butt check i do a bunch we call it a butt check it's a bunch i can't really see your butt you need your friend to look at your butt a three-way mirror it's not sufficient not the same and you need someone who's actually going to tell you the truth and the thing that you are looking for in the butt yeah check so she came over and i tried to put on some pants and i think while i was putting them on i was eating my second second tofu foodie cuties i went through these treats where i really like tofu did you make those anymore tofutti cuties and she was like how many of those are you having every night and i was like two she was like let's let's go number one just have one because your pants don't fit they look great but no so i mean how many people can you say that about also we do we used to like to really things are different now because our lives are different and she has children and we both work and god why did i do that that is a difference in our lives that's pretty significant so we definitely have different things that we do together now this is one of the best things that ever happened to us we got very very drunk at a party and we were in the hollywood hills this is this is this this is not a story that we recommend people doing it's a cautionary tale but it's a beautiful moment in our friendship because i think it is a testament to we didn't die because we didn't die but also because we were um so free and young um which is that we were at a party and we had gotten there via cab or we came with someone else i can't remember some of it nobody takes cabs or says the word cavs anymore they don't well i said it was the period we were in it was the early 2000s i think it was like 2001 or something it was a fancy it was a fancy party like a hollywood party and we were all like there were stars going they were stars going they were starting oh stars there were stars going i was like what are you talking about anyway we were drunk and we couldn't figure out how to get home and there was a dude and his name was mars and he was on a motorcycle and he's like i'll ride you down the hill and we were both like okay no helmet and no helmets and we rode like strangers with a stranger down the hill like down in hollywood hill laurel canyon or something and we were both like ah like crazy people and he dropped us off at swingers the swinger's still there and we were knocking on the door and they were closing we were like they were sweeping and they were like sweeping away could we just have pie we just needed french fry like and then we walked home and amanda you tucked your skirt in the back of your pants yeah we didn't have a ride it was out did you have phones at that point i don't think we had phones in your hands you were picking flowers off low hanging trees and it was like four in the morning and we got back to your house we needed to stop up the alcohol and they wouldn't let us in and we were just like trying to get them to you know you whisper to a person because you know they can't hear you so you whisper really quick and they were like no we thought that was so funny but we did ride a motorcycle we didn't name mars without helmet and survived to tell the tale so we do not recommend anyone doing it but it was for it was it for us i think uh like when i think about it and like we really think about my youth yes that's very emblematic of a very i actually feel that if i didn't know amanda i wouldn't want to be on the planet i feel the same it's just like the kind of friendship i don't really know if i would know or if i would even be who i am i met her when i was quite young i met you when i was young 24 47 now that's a long time so the good parts of me a lot of them are because of her i think that's not true it is true because it develops a certain certain thing bird don't you tell me what is what for me okay that's how that goes [Music]

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Published: Wed Apr 27 2022