In the first images from the set of ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,’ Sarah Paulson, the 51-year-old actress, appears with a light brown wig, bleached eyebrows, and a wine-colored robe over gray sweatpants.
She is Aileen Wuornos, the woman Florida executed in 2002 after convicting her of six murders committed between 1989 and 1990 along a highway in the center of the state.
Charlize Theron had already won an Oscar for portraying her in 2004, and Lily Rabe brought her to life in ‘American Horror Story.’ Now Ryan Murphy is bringing her back in his Netflix anthology.
This is where Wuornos’s story intersects with that of Lizzie Borden, played by Ella Beatty. The question already circulating among fans: will Paulson manage to match the intensity that made her predecessors iconic?