Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford got total makeover to play Clinton ‘victim’
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nypost.comImpeachment: American Crime Story,” the FX series premiering Tuesday, Ashford plays Paula Jones, the (brunette) Arkansas state employee who sued President Bill Clinton for alleged sexual harassment in 1994.It’s a tough role: Ashford’s Jones grapples with sexual trauma, emotional abuse from her husband and unrelenting ridicule from the press, who painted her as trailer trash and used her as a dimwitted pawn to try to bring down the president.And unlike Monica Lewinsky — portrayed in “Crime Story” by Beanie Feldstein — the real Jones has not enjoyed a #MeToo-era reappraisal.Yet sunny Ashford felt a connection with the awkward, vilified Jones.“I knew [the role] was such a match for me,” the 36-year-old actress told The Post during a recent.
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