Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt, played respectively by Hollywood heavyweights Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson — is coming to Showtime.The 10-episode drama airing this April includes supporting actors Kiefer Sutherland as Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Aaron Eckhart as Gerald Ford and relative newcomer O-T Fagbenle, who last starred in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” as the first black president, Barack Obama.
A new two-minute trailer sees the three iconic women as they navigate White House politics, both civic and domestic, and pulls on the threads of controversy that have made each woman so instrumental and enduring to Americans. “In four years, I want to look back and think: ‘What did I become living in that House?'” says Oscar winner Davis, 56, transformed as Obama, who would later earn the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award in 2020.
Meanwhile, Pfeiffer, 63, portrays a genteel and defiant Ford, whose husband was thrust into the presidency in the wake of Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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