‘Quality of TV has improved, better than films’
Actor Sarah Paulson believes that the quality of television has superseded that of movies, and probably that is why more people are turning towards the medium.
Paulson, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her role in the series The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, said that over the years writing has improved in television. “There was a time where nobody wanted to do television; it was just a bunch of dodos, and it was like, ‘You can’t get any film work huh? Going over to TV? Aww, I’m sorry’,” Paulson told BBC.
“Now I feel like very accomplished people in the film world know that where the storytelling is, where the writing is, where the roles are, tend to be in TV right now,” she added.
The 43-year-old actor also stars in Ocean’s 8, the allfemale spinoff of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy.
With big guns like actors Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Meryl Streep also coming to the small screen, Paulson joked, “I’m like, this was my place, and now I can’t compete when Meryl Streep is doing‘Big Little Lies; like, what’s going to be left for me?! Nothing. Maybe we can go and be the movie stars!”
Paulson’s Ocean’s 8 co-star Sandra Bullock believes that streaming services have also improved the quality of content. “I honestly feel the streaming world is influencing the quality of films. Films are losing people to the streaming world, and we need to step up our game in the film industry in order to keep an audience,” Bullock said.