‘Mrs. America’ Team Talks Righting a ‘Cultural Wrong’ in FX’s Limited Series

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The third episode of FX’s nine-part limited series “Mrs. America” is entitled “Shirley” for Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress who represented…

), for whom the premiere episode is entitled, and continues into “Gloria” aka Gloria Steinheim , while also including Bella Abzug , Betty Friedan and more, including a composite character loosely based on the real Schlafly’s neighbor .

In the series it is the character of Alice who turns Phyllis her onto what she thought were “the dangers of the ERA: that women could be drafted,” Blanchett said. “She thought it would delude the military of its strength, and then she started to forge a link in her mind between the ERA and communism. The impact on the military is why she got involved.”

“I call her the original disruptor,” Waller said of how the real-life Schlafly was able to organize women through the network of supporters from her 1960s newsletter.“Whether I like or dislike a character, whether it’s Phyllis or Elisabeth I is utterly irrelevant, it’s not my place,” she said.Poetically, as the panel was going on, the Equal Rights Amendment was going to a floor vote in Virginia, the 38th state needed to finally ratify the amendment.

“I’m a passionate lover of history. I don’t think you can in any way understand the present unless you look into the past,” Blanchett said. During the process of developing “Mrs. America,” they looked at historical moments such as “Roe V. Wade” to consider how much was relevant to the story they were telling and what needed full episodes devoted to them.

 

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