This is going to be some stellar viewing.
American Crime Story season three will focus on the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal, it has been confirmed.
The upcoming season of the vastly popular crime show will dramatise the political sex scandal of the 1990s that saw former president Clinton impeached after entering an intimate relationship with the then 22-year-old White House intern.
Impeachment: American Crime Story will see the return of Sarah Paulson to the show, after the actor took a break from creator Ryan Murphy’s projects last year.
She will play Linda Tripp, the US department of defence civil servant who recorded secret conversations between herself and Lewinsky following the affair.
Beanie Feldstein, who starred in the recent coming of age film Booksmart, will play Lewinsky, while Annaleigh Ashford has been cast as Paula Jones.
FX chairman John Landgraf announced the series this week.
He said:
“FX’s American Crime Story franchise has become a cultural touchstone, providing greater context for stories that deserve greater understanding like the O.J. Simpson trial and saga, and Andrew Cunanan’s tragic crime spree which concluded with the assassination of Gianni Versace.
“This franchise re-examines some of the most complicated, polarizing stories in recent history in a way that is relevant, nuanced and entertaining,” he went on.
“Impeachment: American Crime Story will likewise explore the overlooked dimensions of the women who found themselves caught up in the scandal and political war that cast a long shadow over the Clinton Presidency.”
The series will be based on the book, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin.
Toobin also wrote the book Murphy based American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on, so if that doesn’t give you an indication as to how this series is going to go, nothing will.
Impeachment: American Crime Story will premier on September 27, 2020.
