‘I am Right here with the Fan’ (Unique)

Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor are proving as soon as once more how supportive they’re of each other.

Talking with PEOPLE forward of the 76th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Paulson, 49, jokes that she’s solely in attendance to carry Taylor’s, 81, fan.

“That is the nominee, I am right here with the fan,” Paulson jokes whereas holding a transportable cooling gadget. “Simply do not ever say that I am not supportive and prepared and prepared and in a position, as a result of it isn’t about me tonight as you’ll be able to inform by the fan that I carry.”

Holland jokingly responds, “You are my fan service.”

Paulson and Taylor first met at a celebration in 2005, but it surely wasn’t till a decade later that the Two and a Half Males actress first dropped hints of her romance with Paulson throughout a November 2015 look on WNYC’s Demise, Intercourse & Cash podcast. At the moment, she famous that she was in her first “deeply dedicated relationship” with a girl, additionally noting that she was a lot youthful than her.

The couple formally confirmed their relationship the next month.

Throughout a January 2019 look on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen, Paulson shared how the connection started.

“It is a lengthy story. We met a really, very very long time in the past. I used to be with another person; she was, too,” she famous on the time. “We type of breezed by each other, after which began following one another on Twitter, after which …”

Billy Eichner, who appeared on that very same episode, quipped, “Holland Taylor slid into your DMs?” To which Paulson replied, “She truly did. Yeah, it is fairly nice.”

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Taylor is nominated on the 76th annual Primetime Emmy Awards for greatest supporting actress in a drama collection because of her function in The Morning Present. Her costars, Nicole Beharie, Greta Lee and Karen Pittman are additionally nominated within the class for his or her work on the hit Apple TV drama.

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Talking about her costars to PEOPLE, Taylor notes that Beharie “was an exhilarating particular person to behave with. Actually labored so fantastically, we did collectively.”

Bearing on working with Billy Crudup on The Morning Present as nicely, Taylor additionally shares that “he’s every part.”

See PEOPLE’s full protection of the 76th annual Primetime Emmy Awards as they’re broadcasting stay on ABC from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.