Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor, the romance Hollywood talks about

The successful premiere of

, the Netflix series that is considered a prequel to

and starring Sarah Paulson as the head nurse, has put the actress's relationship with fellow performer Holland Taylor back on track. the spotlight of Hollywood.

Paulson, 45, and Taylor, 77, began their courtship five years ago and, since then, they have formed a couple that breaks canons and champion freedom in an industry that has a hard time breaking with the traditional.

Paulson regrets that homosexuality continues to be a taboo subject in certain areas and considers that the fight for the rights of the LGTBI community must continue.

“In almost a hundred countries it is still a crime.

Supporting people being harassed, detained, imprisoned and sentenced is simply terrible, ”he recently declared in an interview with

magazine

.

And she continued: “Don't we understand that sexual orientation is something private?

It often happens that if you are homosexual you have to talk about it.

Suddenly, any other aspect of your work and your personality takes a back seat.

I never felt that there was a part of me that woke up or came out of the closet ”.

The same thing happened to Taylor when at age 72 he decided to speak openly about his homosexuality.

“I have a relationship with a woman.

As for getting married, it's not something that I think happens automatically, because of my age.

But she has mentioned it and from a spiritual point of view it is a beautiful gesture that I would like to do ", confessed the interpreter, best known for playing Evelyn Harper, the mother of Charlie Harper, (Charlie Sheen) in

in a 2015 interview with WNYC, without revealing then that her partner was Paulson.

"Between her and me there is a great difference of years, I'm sure it would impress many people," she explained and clarified her misunderstanding of the expression "to be coming out of the closet."

“I have been fighting against it.

My relationships have been with women, but I don't like to talk about it.

It seems to me that we are very ridiculous in this country, it is very strange that I talk about my current or former partners and that I also have to hear the question: 'So, have you come out of the closet?'.

Well, no, I have never gone out, because I am abroad, I live abroad ”, he declared.

Since then their presence together on red carpets and award shows have not stopped happening.

Also on social networks, which Paulson uses mainly to promote his work, but in them he also reveals small touches of his personal life, publishing some images with his friends, his animals and also with Holland Taylor.

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Once the barrier of homosexuality has been overcome, Paulson and Taylor have also been targeted on several occasions due to the age difference - 32 years - between them.

The couple has been criticized especially with comments on social networks, which they decide to ignore but deep down it does make them reflect.

“I met a woman older than me and fell in love with her, and that is fascinating and strange to others, but for me it is the least interesting detail about me.

The same thing happens with cinema and discrimination against women.

The fact that it is a topic of conversation means that something is wrong in society, ”commented Paulson in the same talk with

magazine

.

And that "something is wrong" for Sarah Paulson is nothing other than the problem that society has when it comes to coping with the passage of time.

As explained in another interview with

, the actress of the

series

believes that the problem lies in the fact that "the idea that being old is to stop having desires."

"Anyone who says something about anyone I love in a way that is disrespectful or cruel, I completely ignore it," she added about how she ignores negative comments about her private life.

Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor met five years ago through several mutual friends and, after several months, they formalized their relationship.

Before Taylor, Paulson has been in public with previous partners, such as Cherry Jones [one of the interpreters of the television adaptation of

] or the playwright Tracy Letts, with whom he even got engaged.

"We were young, I was 24 years old and it didn't work out," the actress said in an interview.