Sarah Paulson explains her big Mrs. America moment

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"It’s very important to me," she says of this week's episode. "I had less to do in the beginning of the series, but I knew there was going to be an episode about Alice’s journey, so I tried to lay as much track as I could that preceded it, so you would believe and understand where I end up at the end of that episode—and then, once people see Episode 9, why that ending happens the way that it does." ALSO: What's it like for Paulson to paly a character holding political beliefs opposite her own?