USA: A NEW YORK DRAMA GROUP IS TO STAGE A COMEDY BASED ON MONICA LEWINSKY'S GRAND JURY DEPOSITION ABOUT HER AFFAIR WITH BILL CLINTON

Record ID: 990660

  • Title: USA: A NEW YORK DRAMA GROUP IS TO STAGE A COMEDY BASED ON MONICA LEWINSKY'S GRAND JURY DEPOSITION ABOUT HER AFFAIR WITH BILL CLINTON
  • Date: 1st March 1999
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) 1. SV MONICA LEWINSKY EXITING BUILDING 0.09 (POOL) 2. MCU OF LEWINSKY ON VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION BY PROSECUTORS FROM THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN U.S. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON'S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL 0.26 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FEBUARY 26, 1999) (REUTERS) 3. SLV PERFORMERS ON STAGE REHEARSING PLAY 0.38 4. MCU (ENGLISH) ABIGAIL LOPEZ, THE ACTRESS PLAYING MONICA, SAYING DURING REHEARSAL: "Some of them were things I had discussed with the President. I think it was a mutual understanding that we would both try to be careful. ACTOR PLAYING A PROSECUTOR ASKS LOPEZ: "Were there any discussions between you and the President about what should be done with the letters you wrote?" LOPEZ S REPLIES, AS MONICA: "It was my understanding that obviously he would throw them away." 0.56 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE) (POOL) 5. MCU BILL CLINTON HUGGING MONICA LEWISNKY 1.07 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 26, 1999) (REUTERS) 6. SLV(ENGLISH) ACTOR PLAYING PROSECUTOR ASKS LOPEZ: "When you were with the President, were there other people around?" LOPEZ, AS MONICA, REPLIES: "There were but he was talking, everybody was enamoured with him, he was talking to different people, he was always very close to me, whenever he would do those rope lines." 1.23 7. CU AUDIENCE WATCHING 1.27 8. MCU (ENGLISH) ABIGAIL LOPEZ: "This is not an imitation, we're not going for the jugular here - the idea is to humanise these people. I think - because we all hear the Monica jokes, what's funny in this is the actual situations, what they say - I didn't think it was necessary to paint her other colours, but hopefully play her as human as possible." 1.59 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) 10. SV MONICA LEWINSKY LEAVING A BUILDING, SURROUNDED BY CROWD OF REPORTERS 2.08 11. SV MONICA LEWINSKY ARRIVING AT COURT TO TESTIFY BEFORE GRAND JURY (2 SHOTS) 2.24 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS) 12. LV PRODUCTION MEETING 2.26 13. MCU (ENGLISH) DIRECTOR SABRINA PECK SAYING: "I was fascinated by the grand jury testimony. Because she really took each question as an opportunity to tell something about herself and have people understand her. One thing that drives her in that testimony is this desire to be understood and this desire to be liked. And I think that she's been unable to tell her side of it, so that she really used that testimony to do that so that body of text allows us to understand her, and really helps us see her as a more complex, and frail and flawed and well- intentioned and ambitious person than we've been able to see in the media." 3.14 WASHINGTON,D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) 14. SV/MCU LINDA TRIPP SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER TESTIFYING BEFORE THE GRAND JURY ABOUT HER RECORDED CONVERSATIONS WITH MONICA LEWINSKY (2 SHOTS) 3.25 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS) 15. SLV LOPEZ, AS MONICA,TALKING ON PHONE WITH ACTRESS PLAYING LINDA TRIPP, TELLING LINDA TRIPP: "So, what do I say, just that I took something?" (English) 3.29 16. MCU ACTRESS PLAYING LINDA TRIPP SAYING: "I don't know that I'd stop my dialogue with Betty (Betty Currie, Clinton's secretary) (ENGLISH) 3.38 17. MCU (English) LOPEZ, AS MONICA SAYING: "And you know what, Betty is a big help, isn't she? That's what he said. And you know what? I thought to myself --- I didn't say it but I bit my tongue --- but I was going to say, 'No, you fucker, I'm gonna say I want to be chief staff!"/AUDIENCE LAUGHS 3.50 18. LV (English) LOPEZ, AS MONICA, TELLING LINDA TRIPP: "I almost called him Mom!" 3.55 19. SLV AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 4.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: NEW YORK AND WASHIGNTON D.C., UNITED STATES
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