So, given all of that, I agreed to do this job but Hillary Clinton, in particular, is someone who has been imitated and impersonated on every platform by every person who does such things. You don’t know these people and you don’t know the story and so, I can create all of it out of my imagination. I prefer to start the whole thing with a blank slate. So, they come in with some preconceptions as to what the story will be like and what the people will look and sound like. It’s not something I enjoy as much because in a perfect world, we’re telling a story not necessarily a story that people know with people that people know. This is, of course, the highest profile real person I’ve ever played but the truth is, I would way prefer not to play a real person. The truth is, I have played a lot of real people. Are you someone who does a lot of research, are you watching videos to get speech patterns right? How is your approach to playing someone who we’ve all heard speak and maybe seen in person many times? Right. Now, you’ve played real people before but maybe none quite as well known as Hillary Clinton. At a certain point when I was going to fittings, I realized, holy crap, I really am doing this. There were a lot of questions in the air. I guess I stepped in it a little, not really knowing when or if it would happen. I wonder if I gave that enough thought, frankly, but of course, it’s daunting for anybody but also because I am someone who respects her so much and cannot imagine the pressure of just being who she is in the public eye. We spoke on the phone and at that point, I realized I am actually considering playing Hillary Clinton. There were a lot of things floating around at the time and then, they said, he wanted to speak with me. Quite some time before I did it, more than a year, it was mentioned to me that Ryan Murphy was interested in using me and I didn’t know what that meant. What were your reasons for wanting to be part of this and play this role specifically? I’m curious about when this opportunity presented itself. Which, I guess, would make it interesting to delve into the world of this show. It was in the air but I was not fully cognizant of it, no. Had I been, then, who I am now I would have-in so far as being a bit of a political junkie.
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