Sarah Paulson opted to sit out a season of American Horror Story to film Mrs. America

Vulture

"It was shooting exactly when American Horror Story was shooting, and I thought there was no way I could do both," Paulson tells Vulture of her composite Alice Macray role on the FX on Hulu women's liberation series. "At that point, they didn’t know what they were going to be able to offer me, how much I would be in it, and what I would even be doing. There were two roles, Alice being the one that was more interesting to me. I was the second person cast, which was weird since I play the only non-iconic historical figure in the piece."