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Edie Falco to Play Hillary Clinton in FX's 'Impeachment: American Crime Story'
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | March 4, 2021 | Rick Porter, Lesley Goldberg

Posted on 03/04/2021 7:26:47 PM PST by Stravinsky

FX's American Crime Story anthology has cast Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton in its next season, which covers the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.

The multiple Emmy winner will join the A-list ensemble of Impeachment: American Crime Story, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Falco will star with Sarah Paulson (Linda Tripp), Beanie Feldstein (Monica Lewinsky), Clive Owen (Bill Clinton) and Annaleigh Ashford (Paula Jones) in the limited series.

The cast also includes Betty Gilpin as right-wing pundit Ann Coulter and Billy Eichner as Matt Drudge.

Falco's deal to play the former first lady, New York senator and secretary of state has been in the works for months and recently closed.

In 2019 FX chief John Landgraf told THR that Hillary Clinton would not be "one of the main characters" in the story. The casting of Falco, however, would seem to indicate otherwise.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: annaleighashford; beaniefeldstein; clintoncrimefamily; cliveowen; ediefalco; hellywood; hillaryclinton; hollyweird; hollywood; outofideas; sarahpaulson
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1 posted on 03/04/2021 7:26:47 PM PST by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky
Eeeew!
2 posted on 03/04/2021 7:27:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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To: Stravinsky

Let’s see here....

A Chief Executive of an organization spots a low level employee in that organization in a hotel lobby, and sends an aide to summon her to his hotel room.

He propositions her.

She sues for sexual harassment.

He perjures himself during his sworn testimony at deposition in that sexual harassment lawsuit.

He was President of the United States at them time.

The ensuing impeachment was not about a fictitious “Russian Collusion” or about a fictitious “insurrection”

It was about a President who was willing to lie under oath in order to avoid paying the price for his abuse of a female former employee.


3 posted on 03/04/2021 7:33:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Stravinsky

Let’s see here....

A Chief Executive of an organization spots a low level employee in that organization in a hotel lobby, and sends an aide to summon her to his hotel room.

He propositions her.

She sues for sexual harassment.

He perjures himself during his sworn testimony at deposition in that sexual harassment lawsuit.

He was President of the United States at them time.

The ensuing impeachment was not about a fictitious “Russian Collusion” or about a fictitious “insurrection”

It was about a President who was willing to lie under oath in order to avoid paying the price for his abuse of a female former employee.


4 posted on 03/04/2021 7:33:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Stravinsky

To really get into character is Falco going to have to smell like boiled cabbage, urine, and farts, as Podesta alegedly said.


5 posted on 03/04/2021 7:37:18 PM PST by dznutz
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To: Stravinsky

Impeachment a crime story?
The crime is the impeachment investigation began a year before anyone of us knew the name of Monica Lewinsky

Billy clinton used executive privilege claims to hide his crimes


6 posted on 03/04/2021 7:38:50 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism)
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To: Stravinsky

Good thing I wasn’t the casting person.

Someone to play Hillary Clinton?

Hmmmmm.....

Let’s see.....

Herbie The Love Bug comes to mind.

The iceberg from Titanic.

Scooby Do


7 posted on 03/04/2021 7:41:44 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: blueunicorn6

Rosanne Barr


8 posted on 03/04/2021 7:53:36 PM PST by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: blueunicorn6

Who plays Huma!? (The sicker the better!) Okay, I’ll go first: Either Whoopie or Big Mike!


9 posted on 03/04/2021 8:08:00 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Stravinsky

Sharon Stone reminds me more of Hillary.


10 posted on 03/04/2021 8:32:32 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: bobby.223

Sofia Coppola as Huma.


11 posted on 03/04/2021 8:32:52 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza

Oh, sure, when I saw ‘Basic Instinct,’ the resemblance is uncanny.


12 posted on 03/04/2021 8:37:02 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Stravinsky

Let Hollywood’s latest revisionist history begin.


13 posted on 03/04/2021 8:48:15 PM PST by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: Stravinsky

Is Billy Eichner gay enough to pull off playing Matt Drudge?
Why yes he is!


14 posted on 03/04/2021 8:53:30 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Stravinsky

Good casting....she’s already played the not so well treated wife


15 posted on 03/04/2021 8:56:08 PM PST by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: wardaddy

Agree. She has the talent to knock the role out of the park. What i cant tell from the article is is this meant to be a puff piece ir The Truth.


16 posted on 03/04/2021 9:04:16 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: dznutz

To really get into character is Falco going to have to smell like boiled cabbage, urine, and farts, as Podesta alegedly said.
=- = = = = = = = = = = =

AND put on a few(??) pounds and look frumpy.

As stated, she did play the ‘second hand/abused wife’ and was also a prison guard.....


17 posted on 03/04/2021 9:16:53 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "Message to GOP "GO FUnd YOURSELF")
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To: wardaddy

She played the wife in SOPRANOS...

18 posted on 03/04/2021 9:20:07 PM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: irishjuggler
Oh, sure, when I saw ‘Basic Instinct,’ the resemblance is uncanny.

In the movie, Sharon Stone character did have a girlfriend...

There was a sequel to BASIC INSTINCTS...The movie was not that good.

19 posted on 03/04/2021 9:30:00 PM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

I remember when the original was filming in San Francisco 30 years ago. Dykes were actually protesting the shoot, as apparently they’d got ahold of the script and were unhappy to have lesbianism associated with a violent, sociopathic character. A different era, for sure. But yeah, I saw that sequel on one or another of the free streaming services. It was a lame, pointless movie. Giving the devil her due, Stone has got the femme fatale schtick down. But the sequel was indicative that the mere existence of a functional character isn’t enough to carry a movie.


20 posted on 03/04/2021 9:43:39 PM PST by irishjuggler
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