Even though Jack & Jill isn't Paulson's most memorable project from an acting standpoint, the impact it's had on her life is what makes it special. "On Jack & Jill, I met my best friend, Amanda Peet, who has, both in my life and my working life, been the person I tend to go to the most for an assessment of what I'm doing or not doing," Paulson revealed to Collider. "She's the person I'll go read something with before I decide what I'm going to do. She does the same with me — our lens is exactly the same. So we tend to respond to the same music or book or poetry or anything. We also tend to reject the same kinds of things, so if she thinks what I'm doing is good, I tend to feel confident and can go forth into the night."
Whether they're walking red carpets together or spending their days Zoom chatting, Peet and Paulson's bond seems to be unshakeable. In a 2017 interview with People, Peet shared that their friendship is "very intense and visceral and really beautiful."
And it all started on the set of Jack & Jill. For her part, Paulson credits Peet with helping her make her work life so successful. "I rely on her totally for both her expertise and her insight and her empathy, and just her total human self to help me assess things," the actress told Collider. "And I think she relies on the same for me, so that has been a big, huge part of the way I work and the choices I make."
If that means we have Peet to thank for Paulson finding her way to American Horror Story (and by extension Ryan Murphy), then count us as grateful for the long-forgotten Jack & Jill, too.
