Connie Britton Reflects Back on "The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story"

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When she found out Ryan Murphy was making "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story", she immediately asked if she could play Nicole Brown Simpson.


“He was like, ‘Well, Nicole’s mostly dead so that’s probably not going to be that great for you,'” she remembers.

Instead, Murphy cast her as Brown Simpson’s “best friend” Faye Resnick, who wrote a salacious best-selling book about the late Brown Simpson. And transforming into the current "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star meant plenty of conversations about lips.

Britton wanted to get prosthetic ones, but Murphy told her just to pout in a specific way instead. “It’s daunting to play a real living person. I really wanted to try and get the physical stuff as well as I could.”







She was super nervous for her scenes with Larry King — and then he ended up hitting on her (maybe).


“I was so nervous about that Larry King interview because Larry King knew Faye — that actually happened.” she says.

“I hadn’t played Faye in awhile because I’d been off playing Rayna on Nashville. So I finally went in to shoot and he’s sitting on that set, and he’s so into it. So I sat down with him and we hadn’t rehearsed or anything and we did one take and he leaned over to me and said, ‘You are Faye! Oh my God, it’s like she’s sitting in front of me.’ I was so happy, so relieved! And we did one more take and he said, ‘Someone get us a room.’ And that was it — we only did two takes.

So then I’m walking off with him holding my hand and I think he maybe thought it was going to happen!”

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