As we’ve mentioned, Dennis Quaid will play Bill Clinton, Julianne Moore will play Hillary Clinton, and Frost/Nixon star Michael Sheen will play Tony Blair in The Special Relationship, a forthcoming HBO film set specifically around the time the former British Prime Minister first took office. The movie, it’s said, has not been given a formal greenlight, to which I say, why? I promise you Emmy voters have already checked their names on their ballots. Plus, this will be swoon-worthy Sheen’s third time playing swoon-worthy Tony Blair (see also: The Queen and The Deal). Quaid still looks hellagood in a suit, and I’d really like him to star in something that I’d actually like to watch (which hasn’t happened in roughly five years). And who doesn’t want to see what Moore does with Hillary? She’s so good at stoic characters — there’s always something bubbling underneath.
Are you in? Does it help to know that it’s written by Oscar nominee Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), who’s also expected to direct? Emmys, people. Emmys.
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call me crazy but, I think they should’ve just let Darrell Hammond play Bill. Can you think of an better actor whose done a better impersonation of Clinton than Hammond has?
This also makes Quaid the first actor to play both Bush and Clinton.
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What, you didn’t see him playing Bush in American Dreamz?
Not sure I get this casting (except of course, Tony Blair), but I am curious to see how it turns out. Kind of funny that they are playing a married couple again.
um wowza- Far from Heaven reunion!
Count me in! Michael Sheen is perfect as Tony Blair. Every movie down the line with Tony Blair should star Sheen. I am totally excited about Quaid and Moore too. Yes, it will be an Emmys sweep. Can’t wait!
Very excited to see Sheen as Blair again. At this point I’m half-convinced they’re the same person…
They should cast Martine McCutcheon to play Monica Lewinsky:
http://www.martinemccutcheon.ozeweb.net/news.html
yea, you’re right. she seemed to have that Lewinsky vibe (sans the skank) when she played an intern to the American president in ‘Love Actually’.
ok i wont accept that this will be made and be seen first in cable! this is too good for cable! and yea sure, the movie and the stars can win emmys but they;re more deserve to be made into a theatrical movie! i hope its not too late that they will release to the cinemas as what happens th The Queen to which as anyone can see, Helen Mirren won oscar!!!
Seems like everyone cast in this movie is infinitely better looking than their real-life counterparts. This includes the adorable Martine as Monica.
They should have cast Sean Penn as Hilary, more believable than a beautiful woman like Julianne Moore.
Fantastic casting in what is going to be a gripping story. I am so looking forward to this.
Dang, Ann beat me to it! As soon as I saw this, I thought of Quaid spoofing Bush in “American Dreamz”.