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Monica cut from Clinton movie

The new HBO movie “The Special Relationship” — about the friendship between Bill Clinton and Britain’s Tony Blair — is missing something: a scene about Monica Lewinsky.

The scene that showed Bill telling Hillary for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky was shot but cut from the film at the last moment, according to actress Hope Davis, who plays the former First Lady in the movie.

“It felt very strange trying to shoot it,” Davis told the celebrity-news Web site becksmithhollywood.com. “It was a very uncomfortable feeling.”

The movie, starring Dennis Quaid as Clinton and Michael Sheen as Blair, covers the friendship between the two statesmen during the 1990s.

Originally, the movie contained a scene recreating the moment in 1998 when Clinton told his wife that his relationship with Lewinsky was more serious than he had led her to believe.

“In the end, it was not included, which was smart on their part,” Davis says.”I felt, the less said, the better.”

HBO’s head of films, Len Amato, said the scene was trimmed but not cut completely.

“You don’t need a lot of it to make the point for the story we were telling,” he said.

“The Special Relationship” is set to air Saturday night.