Sarah Paulson Was Asked for Her Thoughts on Beanie Feldstein's 'Funny Girl' Drama

Sarah Paulson is close friends with Beanie Feldstein and she was just asked to comment on the drama surrounding her exit from the Broadway revival of Funny Girl.

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The two actresses worked together in Ryan Murphy‘s series Impeachment: American Crime Story

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Now one of Ryan‘s other longtime collaborators, Lea Michele, will be the new Fanny Brice starting Septembr 6.

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“You’re in the series with our girl Beanie. I mean, we’ve been talking a lot about it. I, I think Beanie got really screwed by the producers of Funny Girl.

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Do you have any thoughts on that situation?” Andy said. Sarah responded, “The only thoughts I have are that I saw it twice and I thought that Beanie was remarkable.

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I thought she was remarkable. She was extraordinary on opening night. I went again in June, right after she had COVID.

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I went to see her first performance back after she hadn’t been on that stage for over 10 days and hadn’t been singing or anything, and she just blew my mind and was even better.

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