Film About Hillary Clinton During Her 1969 Gap Year Announced
A new film about Hillary Clinton — Hillary Rodham, actually — is on its way. According to TheWrap, Magdalena Zyzak and Zachary Cotler have finished “When I’m a Moth,” about the gap year between Clinton’s college graduation and the beginning of her law career that she spent “sliming fish” and doing other odd jobs in Alaska. Written and directed by Zyzak and Cotler, “When I’m a Moth” will star Addison Timlin (“Californication”) as the young Clinton.
Zyzak and Cotler have emphasized that the film is not a biopic, but more of a “companion” to their “A Critically Endangered Species,” currently screening at SXSW. “It’s about the unreality of politicians,” Zyzak explained, describing the two films as a “diptych on female power.”
Per TheWrap, “A Critically Endangered Species,” follows “a fading artist [Lena Olin, ‘The Reader’] unhappy with the state of her contemporary work. In an NPR interview, Olin’s character reveals she’s planning her own suicide and is auditioning only young men to become executor of her estate. The handsome Alexander Koch [Sophia Takal’s ‘Always Shine’] steps up to play one of those candidates.”
In the past few years, Clinton has been an omnipresent figure in fiction and reality. Television projects like “Political Animals” and “Madam Secretary” have sampled aspects of Clinton’s personal and professional lives; Clinton appeared as herself in the third season of “Broad City”; Emmy-winner Kate McKinnon portrays her on “SNL”; Lifetime’s web series “The Young Hillary Diaries” depicted Clinton during her fictional run for high school class president; and the Black List’s “Rodham,” about Clinton in her law school days, is in development.
Zyzak previously co-wrote and produced the drama “Redland” and served as producer on the fantasy film “Orion.”
