Celebrated Hollywood producer and screenwriter Ry- an Murphy, a recipient of six Emmy Awards and a BAFTA award, takes us back to the 1990s, through 10 episodes, and investigates the political turmoil centred around the 42nd U.S. President, Bill Clinton, and White House of- ficial Monica Lewinsky. The series depicts the scandal from the perspectives of three women who found them- selves in the world’s spotlight overnight: Monica Lewin- sky, Linda Tripp and Paula Jones. The cast is led by Clive Owen (Bill Clinton) and Edie Falco (Hillary Clinton), but the story cen- tres around the younger members of the cast, including Sarah Paulson (Linda Tripp), Bean- ie Feldstein (Monica Lewinsky) and Annaleigh Ashford (Paula Jones). That’s why we spoke with actress Sarah Paulson, first asking her whether Linda Tripp, who she portrays, was the “Robin Hood” of the White House? “Far from it [laughs]. Linda was a woman. And a woman can be another woman's best and worst friend. In Linda's case, her obsession with correcting the injus- tice that had been done to the White House with the ar- rival of the Clinton administration became her fixation in life. You have to understand that she was a woman
M ore than two decades have passed since the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal that caused a national crisis in the U.S. and led to radical political and social change, and this story is brought back into our focus with the third season of the series Amer- ican Crime Story, entitled Impeachment, which began being broadcast on Fox during October. real heroines fighting for their place in a man’s world: Linda Tripp, Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones INTERVIEW: SARAH PAULSON, ACTRESS Power is a very debatable concept Many people would say that Impeachment is the story of Monica and Bill, but it's not. The plot centres around three women, all of whom were
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