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Sarah Paulson and Kim Kardashian play nemeses in the new legal drama All’s Fair, but behind the scenes, the two exchanged a lot of laughs.
In PEOPLE’s digital cover story, Paulson, 50, recounts how things turned hilariously awry as she and Kardashian, 45, filmed one particularly intense scene.
“I had to say some really scandalous things in Kim’s face. I did at one time spit a potato chip on her,” says Paulson. “I was in her face screaming, and it was like, ‘Bing!’ I saw it go in her eye.”
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While Paulson has worked on at least a dozen Ryan Murphy projects prior to All’s Fair, it’s not often that she gets to play the villain.
“I had the best time, I really did,” she says. “I love working in a high-stakes environment, and I don’t mean the environment of the set but of the scene.”
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That intensity was often cut with laughter, according to Paulson and Kardashian’s costars Glenn Close, Niecy Nash-Betts, Naomi Watts and Teyana Taylor.
“Sarah and Kim sometimes could not look at each other without laughing,” says Close, as Nash-Betts adds, “Once the laughter started, we all knew it was going to be at least 30 minutes before we could even start.”
Set in L.A., All’s Fair follows a team of high-powered female divorce attorneys who leave a male-dominated firm to open their own practice. As the team takes on new cases and clients — played by guest stars like Judith Light, Brooke Shields, Jessica Simpson and Rick Springfield — they also navigate personal relationships, secrets and shifting allegiances.
“The theme every week is we have a story of a woman going through an unfortunate situation, and we’re there to help her,” says Kardashian. “I think that the moral of this story for us as women is even if you are having a hard time, even if you don’t believe in yourself at that moment, your lawyers are there, your girls are there to pick you up and help you believe in yourself again.”
All’s Fair premieres on Hulu on Nov. 4.
