Regardless of Sarah Paulson and Pedro Pascal’s enduring friendship, they’ve by no means shared the display screen save for a quick Saturday Evening Dwell cameo — and the American Horror Story star has the proper thought to vary that.
“I undoubtedly need to do a rom-com,” Paulson, 49, completely instructed Us Weekly on the October 4 premiere of Maintain Your Breath. “Oh my, God. I need to do a rom-com. … I’d wish to work with Pedro Pascal on a rom-com.”
Paulson — who additionally pitched John Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as potential romantic comedy main males — and Pascal, 49, have been mates since they had been youngsters.
“Our life collectively [used to be] simply hanging round, consuming In N’ Out burgers — though I don’t eat meat anymore,” Paulson recalled to Us. “There was a time in our lives when each of us had been so much much less busy and we spent a number of time in our automobiles consuming french fries and milkshakes and … he was the king of dragging me to each scary film potential.”
Paulson added, “I might simply go kicking and screaming as a result of I used to be like, ‘When that is over, you’re going to go house and I’m going to go house and I’ll be on my own.’”
Sarah Paulson and Pedro Pascal. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Photos
Paulson and The Final of Us star met in 1993 after they each lived in New York Metropolis.
“I used to be actually fortunate as a result of my first pal at NYU lived in Brooklyn, Kristen, and went to highschool with you, so your guys’ posse sort of adopted me,” Pascal beforehand gushed to Paulson throughout a September 2014 profile for Interview journal. “We had been 18-year-olds in New York Metropolis in 1993. [But] I bear in mind all of us going to the Higher East Facet. I insisted that all of us go see the film Fearless. There have been eight of us sitting subsequent to one another and, as I bear in mind, we had been all sobbing by the tip of it.”
The pair briefly misplaced contact when Paulson left the Large Apple for Los Angeles, however they finally reconnected after Pascal additionally moved out west.
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Whereas there’s been no formal idea for Paulson and Pascal’s potential big-screen romantic team-up, she’s been busy changing into an authorized Scream Queen. Paulson at the moment stars in Maintain Your Breath, a horror film set in Nineteen Thirties Oklahoma as a lady turns into satisfied a sinister presence threatens her household. (She beforehand starred in different horror motion pictures, together with Run, Martha Marcy Might Marlene, Glass and Chook Field.)
Sarah Paulson attends the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Maintain Your Breath’ on October 4, 2024. Victoria Sirakova/Getty Photos
“I really feel like [the horror genre is] a playground the place you’re residing on the planet of extremes,” she instructed Us earlier this month. “You’re additionally residing on the planet of [when] the circumstances for the character are about life and loss of life. And so, subsequently, all of my pure tendencies to have massive reactions match proper in.”
She added, “My mom known as me Sarah Bernhardt since I used to be a small baby, and I knew, at some point, it might come in useful. And right here it has. My penchant for drama has discovered its approach to a fruitful place.”
Maintain Your Breath is at the moment streaming on Hulu.
With reporting by Mariel Turner