“Ryan had mentioned it very casually to me, in the way that he does sometimes,” Paulson said. “The Marcia Clark thing to me was incredibly juicy, because I remember. I was young at the time. I was barely out of high school. I remember where I was when that Bronco was on the freeway. I remember her in the courtroom.
“He presented it to me as a casual thing, then didn’t mention it for months again.”
Then, weeks later, Murphy said he would send Paulson the first two scripts.
“I was like, ‘I know I want to do it. You don’t have to send me the scripts,’” she said. “He said, ‘You should read it, and see if you want to do it.’ I said, ‘I’m telling you, I want to do it.’