“My goal was to just be emotionally true to what she was feeling at every moment,” she said. Ultimately, Feldstein decided that her performance would rest less on physical or vocal impersonation than on something more ephemeral. But she agreed immediately and threw herself into research - primarily Andrew Morton’s authorized biography of Lewinsky and Linda Tripp’s illegal recordings, even though listening to those made her feel, she said, very, very icky. But two years ago, the uber-producer Ryan Murphy phoned and offered her the part of Monica.įeldstein had been a child during Clinton’s presidency she remembered little about the impeachment itself. Until “Impeachment,” Feldstein’s career - which also includes a starring turn in the coming-of-age-as-a-rock-critic movie “How to Build a Girl” and a season-long arc on the vampire comedy “What We Do in the Shadows” - has encompassed only comic roles.
“I’m still very, very, very Covid scared,” she said. Feldstein, dressed in a leopard print maxi dress and blinding white Reeboks, didn’t eat or drink anything - those allergies - and she wore her mask the whole time, even outdoors. We had met at an outdoor cafe in a pocket park in Midtown East, on a blazing September day. In the episode, an all-male cadre of agents ambush Feldstein’s Monica, still in her sweaty workout clothes, and confine her to the suite, threatening her with imprisonment if she does not cooperate with the special counsel’s investigation of then-president Bill Clinton. operation nicknamed “Prom Night” because, as one agent jokes, it’s hours alone with a girl in a hotel room. Those tears air on Tuesday in “Man Handled,” the sixth episode of the FX limited series “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” in which Feldstein stars as the White House intern Monica Lewinsky. “I wouldn’t be able to sit with myself at the end of the day if I didn’t.”
“I just had to like, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig and put myself there,” Feldstein, 28, said on a recent afternoon.
So earlier this year, shooting 16-hour days on a set made to look like a Ritz-Carlton suite, she made herself cry in take after take, with no artificial tears to help her. The sticks and sprays that help actors to cry on cue? She is allergic to those, too. “I basically live in a bubble,” she said. Beanie Feldstein is allergic to nearly everything - cats, dairy, fragrances, dust.
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