To paraphrase Hillary, it took a village of collaborators to transform Clive into Bill, and Vulture spoke to Owen, Simpson, and five members of Impeachment’s behind-the-scenes team to learn how it all went down.Īs Madeline Kaplan’s fact-checking of the series proves, Impeachment takes its historical accuracy seriously. That’s due to a number of factors: the writing, the actor’s intense preparation, the hair and makeup, and the filming of the show itself. “And the fascination of trying to recreate some of that footage exactly as it was - I couldn’t shake that off.”Īs viewers of the show can attest, it’s easy to forget it’s Owen playing Clinton. It pushes you to do things that you would not ordinarily do,” he says. “There’s something sort of attractive about being scared.
Despite earlier misgivings, Owen saw the appeal of taking on a role with physical requirements and historical weight unlike anything he’d ever done before. The stakes were so high, and it was a story that reverberated around the world,” he says. “I started looking at all the footage from that period, reminding myself about the whole thing. Then there’s the basic thing, of course, that Clive is just an incredible actor.”Īfter spending an hour with the producers and hearing their goals for the show - mostly that it’d focus on the women in Clinton’s orbit, including Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, Paula Jones, and Hillary Clinton - Owen was intrigued. “Clive has something that Clinton also has, which is a lot going on behind these really emotive eyes. “Clinton was known for taking up a lot of space in a room and for having a certain type of magnetism, which Clive inherently has. But for Murphy and executive producer Brad Simpson, it was all about the eyes. The British actor doesn’t look much like the former somewhat doughy American president.
When Clive Owen learned that Ryan Murphy was thinking about casting him as Bill Clinton in the Impeachment season of American Crime Story, he had one thought: Of everybody, why would he do that? Clive Owen spent an hour and 45 minutes in hair and makeup every day before shooting his scenes as President Bill Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story.
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