The second someone told a teenage Sarah Paulson she resembled Julia Roberts , it was over. To be fair, her locker at her NYC performing arts high school was plastered with photos of America’s Sweetheart, so the comparison wasn’t totally out of the blue. Nevertheless, she ran with it.

“That was all I needed to hear to decide that this was what I wanted to do and be,” says Paulson. “I dreamed of doing romantic comedies and working with incredible directors like she was working with. She just seemed like she could do it all, and she can. But it was definitely not working out that way for me. I was not going to become this sort of internationally beloved superstar. That was not my journey.”

While she and Roberts have led decidedly different careers, legions of fans across the globe would

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