FX's "Impeachment: American Crime Story" - Clive Owen Plays Bill Clinton

[Darth Marcus]

Source: Deadline

Clive Owen To Play Bill Clinton In ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ On FX
By Nellie Andreeva - November 15, 2019 9:39am

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actor Clive Owen will star as Bill Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story, the third season of FX’s award-winning limited series franchise, which centers on the sex scandal that rocked the Clinton presidency.

He joins Sarah Paulson, who will play Linda Tripp, Beanie Feldstein, who will play Monica Lewinsky, and Annaleigh Ashford, who will play Paula Jones in the limited series, on which Lewinsky serves as a producer. The role of Hillary Clinton is currently being cast.

Impeachment is written by Sarah Burgess who executive produces alongside returning ACS team Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Brad Falchuk, Larry Karaszewski, Scott Alexander, Alexis Martin Woodall and Sarah Paulson. Feldstein, Henrietta Conrad and Jemima Khan are also producing. The limited series is based on Jeffrey Toobin’s bestselling book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President. Toobin’s 1997 book The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson served as the source material for Season 1 of American Crime Story.

Filming on Impeachment, from Fox 21 Television Studios/FX Production, is set to begin in late March. The limited series is currently slated to premiere on Sunday, Sept, 27, 2020, about a month out from the next U.S. Presidential election, but Murphy recently indicated that the date may be in flux as the filming schedule has changed.

Impeachment originally was supposed to begin shooting in February but start of production has been pushed as Murphy is directing Prom with Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and James Corden, and Sarah Paulson is taking a couple of months off for her transformation as Linda Tripp.

Owen’s casting comes in the midst of the impeachment hearing against President Donald Trump. Despite the confluence of events, the current impeachment proceedings is not influencing Impeachment: ACS, which chronicles the evens from two decades ago.

“We do a show that is very thoroughly fact-checked and vetted and based on best-selling book by Jeffrey Toobin,” Murphy told Deadline earlier this week. I think the reason why it’s interesting is because you don’t have to change anything to feel modern. And I think that idea of impeachment obviously with Trump is fascinating. I wouldn’t say that we’re changing things that much or mentioning Trump at all in our narrative.”

The first installment of ACS, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, received 22 Emmy nominations and won nine. It also won Golden Globe, BAFTA, AFI, PGA and WGA awards, and it won the TCAAwards for 2016 Program of the Year. The second installment, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, was nominated for 19 Emmys and won seven including Outstanding Limited Series. Versace also won the Golden Globe for Best Limited Series, as well as AFI, TCA and PGA awards.

Owen received an Oscar nomination for Closer and was most recently seen in Gemini Man. On TV, he headlined The Knick and will also star opposite Julianne Moore in the Apple limited series Lisey’s Story, produced by J.J. Abrams. He is repped by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein.

[Shingster]

Crikey, Clive Owen as Clinton? What’s that gonna look like. I’ve always felt that Clive Owen was only good at the playing Clive Owen, so this has me curious to see.

[Jay H.]

Intriguing, but everything with Ryan Murphy's name on it disappoints me.

[traths]

So Sarah Paulson played Marcia Clark in The People vs O.J. Simpson and now she's playing Linda Tripp in Impeachment. FX must love casting her for this series.

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by traths

So Sarah Paulson played Marcia Clark in The People vs O.J. Simpson and now she's playing Linda Tripp in Impeachment. FX must love casting her for this series.

She is Ryan Murphy’s lucky charm, FX has no say in her casting.

[traths]

Originally Posted by steve_dave

She is Ryan Murphy’s lucky charm, FX has no say in her casting.

Either way it's still pretty amazing.

[TsMkLg068426]

So who is playing Paula Jones and Jeff Epstein? Are they going to get someone from SNL who played Hillary Clinton?

[JEDGAR1000]

on which Lewinsky serves as a producer.

Now that's interesting.

[MifuneFan]

Clive Owen as Bill Clinton, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky...WTF?

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Clive Owen as Bill Clinton, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky...WTF?

That's some awful casting.

[Shingster]

I see nothing odd about Beanie Feldstein's casting? Lewinsky wasn't a skinny woman or that astoundingly beautiful that Feldstein would be out of place portraying her, and it's not like we've seen much of what she can do as an actress. She was pretty solid in Booksmart.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Shingster

I see nothing odd about Beanie Feldstein's casting? Lewinsky wasn't a skinny woman or that astoundingly beautiful that Feldstein would be out of place portraying her, and it's not like we've seen much of what she can do as an actress. She was pretty solid in Booksmart.

Sorry, but Beanie is far removed from Monica Lewinsky. You can say Monica is not "skinny", but Feldman very much is overweight, and would have to lose quite a lot to look the part in my opinion. I'm not trying to fat-shame here, I just cannot picture it. Aside from the weight difference, I also think their statures are very different. Beanie is 5'1... Monica is 5'6. Huge difference in how they'll appear next to Clinton.

In my mind, Abbi Jacobson of Broad City fame would be an ideal actress to portray Monica Lewinsky. She even has a famous blue dress!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8T1...ature=youtu.be

[huskersports]

The real crime here is that John Goodman wasn't cast as Linda Tripp!