‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ Star Beanie Feldstein Sees Herself as Monica Lewinsky’s ‘Bodyguard’

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Impeachment: American Crime Story debut episode.

Blast from the past. Impeachment: American Crime Story might put Monica Lewinsky front and center, but viewers will be introduced to another important woman in the saga: Paula Jones.

is finally set to premiere. The third chapter of creator Ryan Murphy’s follows the impeachment of former president Bill Clinton after his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

In the wake of documentaries on Britney Spears, Lorena Bobbitt, and other victims of a crueler, “more misogynistic” press machine, the hook to these projects is a prodding at both individual and collective memory. They claim to be recontextualizations, revisions, and rehabilitations, while they are still fundamentally pieced together as amalgamations of fame and identity, with the involvement of the subject or not.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMonica Lewinsky stepped out to FX’s champagne toast to “Impeachment: American Crime Story” on Wednesday night at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.Lewinsky, a producer on the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s Emmy-winning anthology series, posed for photographers on the red, white and blue arrivals carpet for a few minutes before skipping the interview press to head inside to a makeshift cocktail lounge.

Ryan Murphy’s penchant for campy histrionics in focusing its narrative arc on the three women whose cumulative actions culminated in Clinton’s fall from grace: Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein), Linda Tripp (Murphy stock player Sarah Paulson) and Paula Jones (“B Positive” star Annaleigh Ashford). They each deliver terrific performances in an absorbing take on a scandal that closed out the decade on a sour note.

Beanie Feldstein poses with Monica Lewinsky at the premiere of FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story at Pacific Design Center on Wednesday night (September 1) in West Hollywood, Calif.

is finally set to premiere. The third chapter of creator Ryan Murphy’s follows the impeachment of former president Bill Clinton after his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Nothing left out. Monica Lewinsky serves as a producer on the upcoming drama Impeachment: American Crime Story, which examines the relationship the former White House intern had with then-president Bill Clinton in the 90s and the events that led to his impeachment in December 1998.

Monica Lewinsky isn’t giving herself a pass as a producer on the upcoming drama "American Crime Story: Impeachment," which depicts her infamous affair with then-president Bill Clinton.  The series, which has been in development since 2019, sees the real-life Lewinsky offering very intimate notes and details to actress Beanie Feldstein, who will portray her in a dramatization of the infamous 1995 scandal alongside Clive Owen as the former president.  Speaking In an interview with The Hollywood

It’s not easy being a producer on a show that follows a traumatizing moment in your life, which is why Monica Lewinsky needed a therapist while working on the upcoming limited series, Impeachment: American Crime Story!

The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday.

As the premiere of FX’s “Impeachment: American Crime Story” approaches, Beanie Feldstein is gearing up for the spotlight as she steps into the shoes of Monica Lewinsky. The latest installment in Ryan Murphy’s anthology franchise, which is set to kick off Sept. 7, follows the Clinton sex scandal and the impeachment trial of 1998.

Beanie Feldstein is gearing up for the spotlight as she steps into the shoes of Monica Lewinsky. The latest installment in Ryan Murphy's anthology franchise, which is set to kick off Sept.

Ryan Murphy’s “Impeachment: American Crime Story” tells the story of the infamous affair between President Bill Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. While the FX anthology will dive into many details surrounding the scandal, it will not include depictions of sex scenes between Lewinsky (played by Beanie Feldstein) and Clinton (Clive Owen).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlthough “Impeachment: American Crime Story” has been described as being based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book, “A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President,” the greatest source the show had, the stars and producers noted during the Television Critics Assn.

FX has dropped a new trailer for their latest installment of “American Crime Story” with “Impeachment” pulling from real-life events just like they did with “The People vs. O.J.