It’s official. More people have seen actor Michael Sheen portray former Prime Minister Tony Blair than have actually seen Tony Blair, but that’s OK because, frankly, nobody is better at it. What makes this HBO film different from the others is the cast that Sheen gets to work with, particularly Dennis Quaid and Hope Davis as Bill and Hillary Clinton. The story takes place at the dawn of Blair’s emergence as a power in British politics, a time when his special relationship with Clinton gets put to the test when the Monica Lewinski scandal hits. The dynamic between the actors portraying the two world leaders is palpable, as is the tension that Davis brings to every scene as the woman who rose above it all.
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