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the scandal, no matter how hard room early on in order to share
it may be for her. as many intimate, personal
details as she could recall from
The duo gave the outlet an that time in her life. She noted
example of a scene in which that "the deeper I dug, the more
Feldstein, as Lewinsky, flashes valuable it was.”
her thong underwear to Clinton
at a social event, a detail that Although she's in a position to
was reported by the press at the present the story in a way that's
time. Burgess said she kept the favorable to her, Lewinsky
moment out of her script for fear seems to be doing her best to
of "retraumatizing Monica." allow the show to present an
However, Lewinsky read the accurate account of the
draft and advocated for the scandal, which has even led her
scene to be included. to go down some harsh roads
for her mental health. She
"Listen, I would've loved to have revealed in an interview with the
been really selfish and said, outlet that she went over the
'That's great that you guys think scripts via Zoom with a trauma
we don't have to show that, psychiatrist so that she wouldn't
fantastic,' but I'm incredibly be alone as she revisited the
experienced in understanding dark period in her life.
how people see this story," she
explained. "So, ultimately, I felt However, she noted that there's
two things: One was that I one area where she did not feel
shouldn't get a pass because comfortable giving notes — the
I'm a producer; and two, that it intimate moments depicted
was unfair to the team and to the between Bill and Hillary Clinton
project because it would leave as the show dramatizes how
everybody vulnerable.” they grappled with the affair.
The outlet reports that Lewinsky, Lewinsky noted that she kept
in her role as a producer on the quiet in those scenes for
show, was given every page of "myriad, obvious reasons."
the script to give notes on. She
was even involved in the writers'
