Edie Falco to play Hillary Clinton on Impeachment: American Crime Story - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 03-04-2021, 11:47 PM

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The Emmy-winning actress will co-star opposite Clive Owen as Bill Clinton, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky and Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp in the FX anthology series on the Clinton impeachment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, 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 boss John Landgraf told The Hollywood Reporter that Hillary Clinton would not be "one of the main characters" in the story, but Falco's casting seems to indicate otherwise. Falco won three of her four Primetime Emmys playing Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos, which featured a scene of Carmela discussing whether Hillary Clinton is a role model.

TMC · 05-15-2021, 12:23 AM

Here's the first look at Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story

The Emmy-winning actress was spotted with a short blonde bob portraying the former first lady on the FX series filming in Los Angeles this week.

TMC · 10-28-2021, 05:16 AM

Edie Falco was protective in portraying Hillary Clinton on Impeachment: American Crime Story

“If I want something done, I gotta do it," Falco, whose First Lady Hillary Clinton character got the spotlight on this week's Impeachment episode, tells Vanity Fair. "That came into my mind with this. I have tremendous respect and admiration for what she’s been through and what she’s accomplished in the face of that. And how she’s remained married to a man that she respects in spite of his issues and their issues together. I think she’s carved an admirable path through her life. I wanted to make sure she’s treated with respect…not that I did it right, but I wanted to be at the helm of taking care of this woman who was a national treasure and is pretty spectacular in the world.” Speaking about Hillary’s guiding forces, Falco explains, “her faith has been a big part of her life forever…and still is to this day. Like in her concession speech, she used a Bible phrase. The fact that she’s in a long-term marriage, I can’t relate to that, but that is something that she takes very seriously…. My parents were divorced. Everybody I know has been divorced. It’s almost like a rite of passage—you get married, get divorced, eventually you get married to the right person. I think she takes the marriage vows seriously. She made an agreement under God to be with this person until she dies. And I think she’s a public servant, and it’s been in her blood forever. You take the three of those things and it’s going to make you behave a certain way. From my vantage point, that is kind of what has guided her.” Falco also reveals she first met Clive Owen on the first day of filming, when he had already been transformed into President Bill Clinton. “I thought I knew what Clive Owen looked like,” she remembers, laughing at her confusion. “I just thought, He looks different. And then at one point I was pulling out of the parking lot and some attractive man is running towards my window saying, ‘Hey, hold on, hold on.’ And I feel like, Oh, my God, that’s Clive Owen. The whole time we were together, he looked like Bill.” Falco points out that she didn't see a lot of faces while filming during the pandemic. “it wasn’t just with Clive,” she says. “I didn’t know what anybody looked like between the masks and the plastic shields. I didn’t ever know who the hell I was talking to. It was very strange.” ALSO: Impeachment's Linda Tripp is your office frenemy nightmare.

stevea · 10-28-2021, 09:51 AM

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Edie Falco was protective in portraying Hillary Clinton on Impeachment: American Crime Story

..."I have tremendous respect and admiration for what she’s been through and what she’s accomplished in the face of that. And how she’s remained married to a man that she respects in spite of his issues and their issues together. I think she’s carved an admirable path through her life. I wanted to make sure she’s treated with respect… ...“her faith has been a big part of her life forever…and still is to this day. ..."

Gag me. What a bunch on hogwash. She's a lying, conniving *itch, every bit as bad or worse than her lowlife husband.

RetroGuy2000 · 10-28-2021, 11:26 AM

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Gag me. What a bunch on hogwash. She's a lying, conniving *itch, every bit as bad or worse than her lowlife husband.

Testify, brother!

TMC · 10-29-2021, 04:42 AM

Edie Falco's Carmela Soprano past is a hindrance to her performance as Hillary Clinton on Impeachment: American Crime Story

This week, Falco's Hillary Clinton was put in the spotlight as Impeachment dealt with the fallout from then-President Bill Clinton's admission he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. The problem, says Sean T. Collins, is "Falco’s Hillary is a bit harder to swallow. And through no fault of her own! It’s not on Edie Falco that she’s confronted a husband’s deceit and infidelity more forcefully in a previous series, The motherf***ing Sopranos, than she does here. She certainly does yeoman’s work in conveying Hillary’s shock and outrage when Clinton comes clean to her in the light of dawn, while she’s fresh out of bed and still in her nightgown, achingly vulnerable. But it is hard to shake the impression that we’re watching Carmela Soprano play-act as First Lady, rather than watching the First Lady in and of herself. In a sense, Falco is a victim of her own talent."

Chocolate Moose · 10-29-2021, 10:36 AM

Edie Falco is GOLD!!!

03-04-2021, 11:47 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,136	Edie Falco to play Hillary Clinton on Impeachment: American Crime Story https://collider.com/hillary-clinton...ry-fx-on-hulu/ The Emmy-winning actress will co-star opposite Clive Owen as Bill Clinton, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky and Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp in the FX anthology series on the Clinton impeachment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, 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 boss John Landgraf told The Hollywood Reporter that Hillary Clinton would not be "one of the main characters" in the story, but Falco's casting seems to indicate otherwise. Falco won three of her four Primetime Emmys playing Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos, which featured a scene of Carmela discussing whether Hillary Clinton is a role model.

10-29-2021, 10:36 AM	#7
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05-15-2021, 12:23 AM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,136	Here's the first look at Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story The Emmy-winning actress was spotted with a short blonde bob portraying the former first lady on the FX series filming in Los Angeles this week.

10-28-2021, 05:16 AM	#3
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,136	Edie Falco was protective in portraying Hillary Clinton on Impeachment: American Crime Story “If I want something done, I gotta do it," Falco, whose First Lady Hillary Clinton character got the spotlight on this week's Impeachment episode, tells Vanity Fair. "That came into my mind with this. I have tremendous respect and admiration for what she’s been through and what she’s accomplished in the face of that. And how she’s remained married to a man that she respects in spite of his issues and their issues together. I think she’s carved an admirable path through her life. I wanted to make sure she’s treated with respect…not that I did it right, but I wanted to be at the helm of taking care of this woman who was a national treasure and is pretty spectacular in the world.” Speaking about Hillary’s guiding forces, Falco explains, “her faith has been a big part of her life forever…and still is to this day. Like in her concession speech, she used a Bible phrase. The fact that she’s in a long-term marriage, I can’t relate to that, but that is something that she takes very seriously…. My parents were divorced. Everybody I know has been divorced. It’s almost like a rite of passage—you get married, get divorced, eventually you get married to the right person. I think she takes the marriage vows seriously. She made an agreement under God to be with this person until she dies. And I think she’s a public servant, and it’s been in her blood forever. You take the three of those things and it’s going to make you behave a certain way. From my vantage point, that is kind of what has guided her.” Falco also reveals she first met Clive Owen on the first day of filming, when he had already been transformed into President Bill Clinton. “I thought I knew what Clive Owen looked like,” she remembers, laughing at her confusion. “I just thought, He looks different. And then at one point I was pulling out of the parking lot and some attractive man is running towards my window saying, ‘Hey, hold on, hold on.’ And I feel like, Oh, my God, that’s Clive Owen. The whole time we were together, he looked like Bill.” Falco points out that she didn't see a lot of faces while filming during the pandemic. “it wasn’t just with Clive,” she says. “I didn’t know what anybody looked like between the masks and the plastic shields. I didn’t ever know who the hell I was talking to. It was very strange.” ALSO: Impeachment's Linda Tripp is your office frenemy nightmare.

10-29-2021, 04:42 AM	#6
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,136	Edie Falco's Carmela Soprano past is a hindrance to her performance as Hillary Clinton on Impeachment: American Crime Story This week, Falco's Hillary Clinton was put in the spotlight as Impeachment dealt with the fallout from then-President Bill Clinton's admission he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. The problem, says Sean T. Collins, is "Falco’s Hillary is a bit harder to swallow. And through no fault of her own! It’s not on Edie Falco that she’s confronted a husband’s deceit and infidelity more forcefully in a previous series, The motherf***ing Sopranos, than she does here. She certainly does yeoman’s work in conveying Hillary’s shock and outrage when Clinton comes clean to her in the light of dawn, while she’s fresh out of bed and still in her nightgown, achingly vulnerable. But it is hard to shake the impression that we’re watching Carmela Soprano play-act as First Lady, rather than watching the First Lady in and of herself. In a sense, Falco is a victim of her own talent."