Cate Blanchett’s new limited-series examines a pivotal moment in American history.Still, she didn’t expect to see the storyline depicted in FX’s Mrs.
America to find such currency as the U.S. and the rest of the world battles the coronavirus pandemic.The two-time Oscar winner plays conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly in the TV show which dramatizes the fight over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the 1970s.Schlafly, Blanchett says from her home in London, had “a great fear of a strong central government.”“She found that abhorrent,” Blanchett muses. “And I would argue that in the crisis that we’re living through right now, you do need a strong, cohesive, effective and responsible federal government when you have a national and
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