-The last time you were here I believe was
right before last year's Golden Globes.
-Yes.
And I wished you lucked and then it worked.
-Yes. You were the good luck charm.
-You won.
-Because of you that happened.
-Thank you very much. -Thank you very much.
Well, 'cause you didn't thank me during your speech
so I wanted to make sure you remember.
[ Laughter ]
-I wanted to do it here live right to your face
and look right in your eyes and say, thank you, Seth.
-This is better. This is better.
-It's more meaningful this way.
-Since "People Versus O.J. Simpson,"
which was -- from last year
one of the most special moments in television,
have you -- have people approached you more?
Has that performance -- -Yeah.
I think "American Horror Story" is a more niche thing
and the O.J. thing had a wider net.
-Yeah.
-But not as much -- not as far-reaching as I thought
because I was on the phone the other day in the airport,
and a very nice girl came up to me
and tapped me on the shoulder, and said,
"I don't want to interrupt you."
And of course I thought,
"Well, then don't -- don't interrupt me."
[ Laughter ]
And she said, "I just wanted to give you this."
And it was a little cocktail napkin.
I looked down and it said,
"Hi, Ms. Foy. I think you're the greatest actress."
And I was like, "She thinks I'm Claire Foy."
I was like, my career is not -- the needle hasn't moved at all.
-No. -Nobody knows who I am.
-Well, Claire Foy is very talented.
-Sure. And also, much younger than I am, so I'll take it.
-Yeah, take those napkins. -Yeah.
I took the napkin.
-When life gives you that gift of a napkin...
-I actually went to her and I was like, "Did you --
Do you want to save this
for when you do run into Claire Foy?"
And she's like, "No, you can keep it."
And so I kept it. I thought it would be a good --
-You should have written on one,
"I'm a huge fan of yours, Sarah Paulson,"
And gave it to her and said, "this is for Claire Foy."
-Give this to her next time. -When you ever meet her.
-Yeah, exactly.
-So, this -- "The Post" is --
This is one of those fantastic films about journalism,
and it's very timely now.
It's about very earlier '70s and The Washington Post's decision
to publish the Pentagon papers.
-Yes, because our government
was not operating from a place of full transparency.
-Yeah, it's weird.
-It's so weird that it's relevant now.
-Yeah, it totally came back. -It's strange.
-That came back around.
-Yeah, that's somehow full circle and here we are again.
-You had read Katharine Graham's autobiography.
-Yes, called "Personal History,"
when I was about 26 years old, and I tried to option it.
They were not interested in letting me have it.
So, I was pretty well-versed about her and her life,
and she's an incredible woman.
First woman on the Fortune 500 list to, you know --
C.E.O., it was just incredible.
And was it a fantastic --
it must have been a fantastic thing to be part of.
-Well, you know, it's Steven Spielberg.
So, when you get that call you're sort of going,
"Do I do it, do I not do it? It's Steven Spielberg."
And then it's, like, it's also Tom Hanks.
You play his wife, and some lady named Meryl Streep
who's at the beginning of her career
and it's just starting out for her.
We're not sure where it's gonna go.
-Well, still you can always say you were in her first movie.
-I was in her first movie.
And I think -- I can tell you
that I think things are gonna go well for her.
-I want to ask about "American Horror Story."
So, this is -- How many now have you done?
-I've done seven seasons. -Seven seasons.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-This season you had one of the more normal looks
you've had on the shows. Is that a safe --
-Yes, that's a safe thing to say.
Yeah, normal being that --
-Yeah, you kind of look like yourself
'cause these are previous years.
This is -- Is this Coven? -This is Coven.
-Yeah.
-That's just an acid-burn face look,
if anyone is interested in that.
-Yeah, totally normal. -Totally normal.
-This is -- -Hotel.
Yeah, Hotel. -That's Sally the junkie.
-Sally, the junkie.
This is really the coup de gras right there.
-Yeah, that's the two-headed gal.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
And you got cast as both, which is --
-I got to play both,
although a lot of people do come up to me now and they're like,
"Where's your other head?"
-Yeah. -I'm like...
-"That was Claire Foy." -"That was Claire Foy."
[ Laughter ]
This look was actually a scary look
because I would actually go out after work --
-Which one? Oh, yeah. -After work I would forget --
People think this is a wig. It ain't.
-Oh, wow. -That's my hair.
-Oh, wow. I definitely thought it was a wig.
-Yeah, yeah, I had to basically shave it off when it was over
because it was so damaged.
But I would go to buy milk at the store
at the end of the work day,
and they would, like, drop my change into my hand,
they didn't want to touch me.
[ Laughter ]
I forgot that I looked like that.
And I was like, "What is going on?"
-You, also -- I'm very excited about this --
"Oceans 8" is coming.
-It's coming, and I think -- Yeah, the trailer's coming.
-The trailer's coming very soon. This is very exciting.
And one of your cast members --
this is a fantastic cast -- Sandra Bullock.
-Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Anne Hathaway.
-We talked about it last time you were here though.
Rihanna is in the film.
-Yeah, just, also, someone at the beginning of their career.
We're not sure what she's capable of.
-And you and I both share a low-level, perfectly legal,
obsession with Rihanna. -Yeah. And, uh, yeah.
She texted me not long after.
I got a text message from Rihanna, yeah.
But I was convinced that there was no --
She sent me like, a crying/laughing emoji
congratulating me on winning the Golden Globe.
And I was like, "Rihanna's not gonna send an emoji.
She's not sending an emoji."
And then I went to set the next day.
She was like, "Yes, that was me."
-Wow.
-And I thought, "I can't believe she texted me."
I haven't heard from her in a long time, I will say.
-Gotcha. Well, of course not.
She congratulated you and you iced her.
-Yeah, because I was like,
"I'm not writing back to this girl
who's pretending to be Rihanna.
I'm totally not going to do that."
But I do think I have a little bit of a connection
if you want me to see if I can't try to get her
to come on your show.
-Look, I don't think that's going to happen.
But I will take an emoji.
Just get me -- Sarah, get me an emoji.
-I will get an emoji from Rihanna.
-Even if she has to send it to you and you forward it to me.
-It should be like, "This is for Seth."
-Yeah, this emoji.
-Or she'll send me an emoji and I'll craft something
that's like, "Give this to Seth"
but it won't really be from Rihanna.
That will be from me.
I'll take anything -- -From Rihanna.
She also sends me some fenti goodies
every once in awhile, too.
-Your life is fantastic. -It's pretty cool, yeah.
-How do they -- how -- When Rihanna sends you something,
does it come via regular mail?
-It, like, comes down in a giant unicorn
with billowing hair and diamonds and things.
-There's, like, smoke machines.
-There's, like, a poof and, like, a wind,
and you're like, "Ahhh" and it's your UPS guy.
The UPS guy does not wear normal clothing
when he delivers things.
-The UPS guy delivers it and then he explodes.
-Then he explodes, yeah.
He's like, "I think this is from Rihanna."
-He's like, "If this is how I'm go, I'm happy."
-"Anyone would go this way." It's true.
-So I want that too. I want an emoji and just one --
-You want an exploding UPS guy to hand you
a really exciting thing of fenti sandals with faux fur on them.
-Golden Globes, Spielberg movie,
seven years of "Horror Story."
None of that means anything --
None of it's as cool as an emoji from Rihanna.
-I'm going to get text messages from you now
more frequently than I already do.
[ Laughter ]
-Thank you so much for being here.
It's always such a delight to have you.
Sarah Paulson, everybody.