{"id":55705,"date":"2021-05-09T22:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=55705"},"modified":"2021-05-09T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:31:53","slug":"sarah-paulsons-tripp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/05\/09\/sarah-paulsons-tripp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Paulson&#8217;s Tripp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weight was also in the news for women.&nbsp; No one will deny that <strong>Sarah Paulson <\/strong>is one of our greatest actresses.&nbsp; And, as a favorite of auteur <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong>, it was no surprise she was cast in his upcoming <strong><em>Impeachment: American Crime Story<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; However, people couldn\u2019t quite picture the svelte Paulson as the rotund <strong>Linda Tripp <\/strong>\u2013 she of the loose lips about <strong>Monica Lewinsky <\/strong>(whose lips were otherwise occupied).&nbsp; When photos of a stout Sarah surfaced from the set, scuttlebutt spread that the actress was wearing a fat suit.&nbsp; And many wondered \u2013 why not hire a fat actress?&nbsp; They believe Paulson\u2019s casting sends a message that plump actresses are unhireable.&nbsp; Which leads to my usual argument \u2013 why not hire the best actress?&nbsp; Paulson has proven to me that she can play any role.&nbsp; Show me an actress of the same caliber and cache who looks more like Linda Tripp and is available (this might be a good time to point out that Tripp was played on <strong><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/strong> by <strong>John Goodman<\/strong>).&nbsp; I would like us to get to the point where the best actor gets the part \u2013 regardless of their weight, creed, sexual orientation, or age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight was also in the news for women.&nbsp; No one will deny that Sarah Paulson is one of our greatest actresses.&nbsp; And, as a favorite of auteur Ryan Murphy, it was no surprise she was cast in his upcoming Impeachment: American Crime Story.&nbsp; However, people couldn\u2019t quite picture the svelte Paulson as the rotund Linda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55706,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55705\/revisions\/55706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}