Edie Falco to play Hillary Clinton on Impeachment: American Crime Story

Waaaay back in 2019, FX announced that Clive Owen would be playing Bill Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story, a casting decision that was and still is fucking wild. Thankfully, in what must be an effort to return some semblance of verisimilitude to the project, FX has also reportedly now cast Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton—which actually makes sense, since Falco is at least an American woman with blonde hair and not a British guy who always just plays variations of “Clive Owen.” Impeachment, as indicated by the name and the appearances of Bill and Hillary Clinton, is about the Monica Lewinsky scandal and will presumably offer more of her perspective than other versions of the story. After all, she joined up as a producer after series creator Ryan Murphy realized that it was “kind of gross” (his words) to tell this story without her being involved, so it would be weird if it was as unfairly critical of her as people were at the time.