Sarah Paulson & Shuggie Otis

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Actress Sarah Paulson is best known for playing numerous characters on American Horror Story and Marcia Clark on The People v. O.J Simpson. Sarah sits down with Jesse to talk about working on The People v. O.J., her first big acting job, and dealing with the ups and downs that come with being a working actor. Although it was not popular at the time of its release, Shuggie Otis' album Inspiration Information influenced countless musicians and has been sampled by artists like Digable Planets and J Dilla. Shuggie tells us what went behind making this rock/soul classic. And Jesse explains why Paul and Gary O'Donovan's craic interview is one of the best things to come out of Rio Olympics

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumPun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.6	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:16.2	When you think about the OJ Simpson trial, what do you think of?
0:19.2	If you're old enough, maybe you remember the car chase.
0:22.4	Came before it, OJ barreling down the 405 in a white Bronco, frantically calling 911 from
0:27.7	his cell phone.
0:29.4	Do you remember all the insanity of the actual trial itself?
0:33.2	Or maybe you remember that something seemed to be changing during that trial?
0:38.1	Celebrity obsession has always been a part of American life, but it seemed a little different,
0:41.9	more voyeuristic, darker.
0:44.2	My guest Sarah Paulson is nominated for an Emmy for her role as Marsha Clark in the
0:49.1	People vs. OJ Simpson.
0:51.5	As the lead prosecutor in the trial, Clark was under constant scrutiny, the press.
0:56.8	She's at the center of this new American obsession and playing her made Sarah Paulson
1:01.8	rethink what it all meant.
1:03.8	I had been one of those people where someone sort of mentioned a piece of gossip to me and
1:08.8	said, well, I heard and I just know this is true and I'd be like, oh, I bet it is.
1:11.6	And oh, I'm sure she just did that.
1:13.0	Oh, he just did that because and now I think about how many untruths were told about
1:19.3	Marsha and how many of them became to be part of the fabric of what we knew to be true
1:23.3	about Marsha Clark collectively.
1:25.3	It's Paul's eye.
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