Showtime’s TheFirstLady examines the lives of a trio of influential first ladies.
alum, 53, stars as Eleanor Roosevelt, who died in 1962, while theactress also had the opportunity to speak with the Harvard Law School graduate ahead of the show’s premiere, but she said she didn’t want to share too much of what they discussed because of privacy. Davis did, however, hint that Michelle told her that some public assumptions about her character are very wrong.earlier this month. “Isn’t that something? Listen, I am sort of an angry person, but she’s not.
”, who plays Barack, now 60, didn’t get to meet his onscreen counterpart because the former president was “booked up,” but he still studied hard to prepare for the role. “Playing him over the span of 15 years is a challenge, as well, but it was a beautiful challenge,” theEven those required some tweaking for accuracy, though. “They gave me prosthetics that were his size, but they looked too big on my head,” Fagbenle explained.
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