Like anyone with eyes, ears and adequate ventricular function, I’ve been in love with Gillian Anderson since 1992, when she proved that not even weird-fitting skirt suits and sad orthopedic heels could hide the fact that she’s hilarious and hot, especially when David Duchovny is saying something wrong and stupid. And like any person who has never paid much attention to the history of the United States and also went to a college in rural Louisiana that rarely mentioned women or their small contributions to any of their courses, I’m in love with Eleanor Roosevelt since now, when I found out that Gillian Anderson will play her in a Showtime series called The first lady.
The series promises to be a kind of If those walls could speak: White House Women’s Edition, set to focus on “reshaping American leadership, told through the lens of women in the center of the White House”, according for Variety. The rest of the cast is the sameImpressive, with Viola Davis in the role of Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer in the role of Betty Ford, all the things that look right and perfect for a person who saw those five crucial moments in Doubt along with the cinematic masterpiece What Lies Beneath about five billion times each, but I can’t remember straight away when Gerald Ford was president or if he was good.
All we need now is a promise that Crown The genius of the Margaret Thatcher wig is on board and maybe I’m ready to finally take that female studies course I never took thanks to the magic of the golden age of television.