Before we talk about this, can I get your opinion on Sarah Paulson’s hair? (I will be traveling today and will be away for a bit but I will read all your comments!) I am considering doing a dramatic asymmetric cut like this with two tone color. Evan Rachel Wood has this same cut and it is giving me such 90s nostalgia, I love it. I very much realize that it’s a reactionary cut, like when you get a dark pixie cut after a bad breakup, but it’s also bold and lovely. I want to wait until the summer to see if I still like it but for now I want it. My hairdresser says it will be a bitch to grow out but that hair is fashion too so we may as well go for it.

Paulson is costarring in the Oceans 8 movie, with a heist team made up of badasses like Sandra Bullock, Mindy Kaling (I didn’t know she was in it but I just saw these set pictures, squee!), Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock. It’s out June 8th next year and maybe I will be sporting a short new ‘do just in time for that. I think I have a plan now. Regardless she was interviewed by The Wrap about the fact that the “women infighting” narrative has been in the press. Director Paul Fieg said at a conference recently that some producer told him that if he got too many women together on set there would be “cat fights,” which of course hasn’t been the case. In this new interview, Paulson very expertly shot that speculation down as sexist without using the term. I love her.

TheWrap caught up with the newly-minted Golden Globe nominee to discuss her nod for “The People v. O.J. Simpson” and broached the doubts and analysis that plagued last summer’s all-female “Ghostbusters” to see whether Paulson expected the same scrutiny and even suggestions of actress in-fighting.

“Not in the slightest. I’ve never had anything like that happen on that set, I don’t come from a world where I expect that … I just think it’s sort of sad, really, that that would be the expectation,’ Paulson said. “I promise you it would not be like that if a bunch of boys would get together — ‘bro fights.’ I hate to support that narrative or that idea and it certainly couldn’t be further from the truth.”

As Paul Feig promoted “Ghostbusters” in July alongside stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, he reflected on advice he was dispensed early in his career to avoid a women-heavy set.

“These women that (‘Ocean’s 8’ director) Gary Ross has gathered together are some of the great women of the world and some of the greatest actors. Everyone is getting along like gangbusters, I can promise you that,” Paulson said of co-stars Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling and Nora Lum.

At the Produced By conference in June, Feig said his male colleagues once told him to expect “cat fights” if a film had more than one leading lady.

“I had some male producer say, ‘Oh boy, get ready. It’s going to be tough, you’re going to have cat fights,’” the director said. “And I said, ‘Who the f— are you?’ It was the most wonderful experience I’ve had,” said the filmmaker, who has directed the female ensemble comedy “Bridesmaids” and the Bullock-McCarthy buddy comedy “The Heat.”

[From The Wrap via Jezebel]

Kaiser and I were brainstorming to try and remember when the “bro fighting” thing has come up in the tabloids. There have been quite a few things – but usually there’s very solid evidence and it’s not the vague “fighting on set” claims you hear about women. There was The Rock vs. Vin Diesel, but Dwayne Johnson brought that up himself on Instagram. There was Orlando Bloom vs. Justin Bieber, but those two were in a longstanding feud over Miranda Kerr and Bloom was witnessed taking a swing at Bieber. So often the tabloids run rumors and innuendo about women fighting on set, but they’ll only pick up the stories about the guys fighting when the bro fights play out in real life. Why aren’t bro fights more gossiped-about? Paulson has a point. Also, good for Feig for telling that jerk to shut it.

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