Sarah Paulson‘s transformation into serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the upcoming trailer for Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is utterly shocking.
Paulson, 51, is an acclaimed actress who has tackled roles ranging from Marcia Clark in the FX limited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story to Nurse Ratched in the thriller series Ratched. But in the trailer for Monster, which is helmed by her frequent collaborator Ryan Murphy, Paulson undergoes a massive makeover (or make-under) to transform into Wuornos. The serial killer was famously played by Charlize Theron in the 2003 film Monster, for which Theron won an Academy Award.
Take a look at Paulson as Wuornos below in Monster, which stars Ella Beatty, the daughter of famed actors Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, as axe-wielding Lizzie Borden. The series tells the legendary story of Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, MA.
First look at Sarah Paulson as Aileen Wuornos in Ryan Murphy’s ‘MONSTER: THE LIZZIE BORDEN STORY.’Premieres September 17 on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/14UjB0Gomf
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Official trailer for Ryan Murphy’s ‘MONSTER: THE LIZZIE BORDEN STORY.’Premieres September 17 on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/1mhPwAuQeQ
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What Does Ella Beatty Star In?
A Juilliard-trained actress, Beatty made waves starring alongside Hugh Jackman in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre. In the play, Beatty’s character is a college student who becomes involved with her older, successful professor, played by Jackman.
Despite the world knowing him as a megastar, Beatty previously said she didn’t feel the least bit starstruck by Jackman.
“There is nobody less movie-starry in the world than Hugh Jackman,” Beatty said recently in a piece in Interview. “He’s the most generous, loving, open, kind, hardworking person. He’s done so much musical theater, and you can see that in the way that he shows up to work. Nobody works harder than musical theater performers—they’re such athletes. You can see that in his sensibility around learning lines. So I was intimidated, but when we sat down to do the first reading of the play in the fall, it was so animated immediately that it became about the play very quickly.”
Ella Beatty Will Likely Star in The Bell Jar
The rising theater star is in final talks to join Billie Eilish and Carey Mulligan in the film adaptation of Sylvia Plath‘s iconic novel, Deadline reported. While it’s not yet clear who Beatty will play in The Bell Jar, we know that Eilish will make her acting debut in the role of protagonist Esther Greenwood, while Mulligan will play her mother. Sarah Polley is set to direct.
The 1963 novel, which mirrors Plath’s personal story, was previously adapted for the screen in 1979, and starred Marilyn Hassett in the role of Greenwood. A 2003 film, Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow in the role of the iconic poet, chronicled the writer’s life and tragic death by suicide.
Related: Ella Beatty Becomes Lizzie Borden in Chilling, Bloody ‘Monster’ Trailer
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