The First Lady is over at Showtime.
The First Lady is over at Showtime.
EXCLUSIVE: After seeing his Amazon MGM romantic drama The Idea of You debut to glowing reviews on the closing night of SXSW, Michael Showalter has been set to reteam with the studio on Oh. What. Fun, a holiday comedy to star Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit).
Michelle Pfeiffer received some sad news as it was announced earlier in the week that her show, The First Lady, had been canceled.MORE: Michelle Pfeiffer turns heads with the most amazing throwback photo - her hair!The Showtime anthology series, in which Michelle portrayed former First Lady of the United States Betty Ford and also starred Viola Davis and Gillian Anderson, was also executive produced by Viola.VIDEO: Michelle Pfeiffer reveals dilemma about appearanceA statement released by a spokesperson for the show to Deadline read: "Showtime can confirm that the anthology series The First Lady will not be moving forward with another season."The heartbreaking news came amid talks of a potential sequel or second season for the show, which featured the journeys of First Ladies such as Hillary Clinton, Edith Wilson, and even Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.MORE: Michelle Pfeiffer marks special celebration with rare snapshot of siblings"We would like to applaud the artistry and commitment of our showrunner Cathy Schulman, director Susanne Bier, their fellow executive producers, our amazing cast — led by executive producer Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson — and our studio partner Lionsgate for their dedicated work in telling the unique stories of three remarkable leaders," the statement continued.A post shared by The First Lady on Showtime (@thefirstlady_sho)The First Lady was canceled by ShowtimeThe series received mixed reviews from critics upon release, with Michelle and Gillian's performance receiving positive reviews along with several production aspects like costumes and set design.According to Showtime: "The series will peel back the curtain on the personal and political lives of three unique, enigmatic
THE FIRST LADY will not be moving forward with another season. We would like to applaud the artistry and commitment of our showrunner Cathy Schulman, director Susanne Bier, their fellow executive producers, our amazing cast, led by executive producer Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson, and our studio partner Lionsgate for their dedicated work in telling the unique stories of three remarkable leaders,” the network said in a statement, provided to TheWrap.The show starred Davis as Michelle Obama, Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt and examined their lives before and during their time in the White House.
J. Kim Murphy Showtime has elected against moving forward with a second season of its anthology series “The First Lady.” The decision comes a little over six weeks after the series aired its Season 1 finale on the network.“Showtime can confirm that the anthology series ‘The First Lady’will not be moving forward with another season,” a Showtime spokesperson told Variety.
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime will not be picking up a second season of one-hour drama anthology series The First Lady. The star-studded Season 1 of the anthology, set in the East Wing of the White House and focused on telling the stories of America’s charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies, centered on Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), with Davis also serving as executive producer.
(CNN)These days it feels like everything is coming back, so why not Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman?In a recently published interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress said she's not against the idea."It would depend on the context but, yeah, I'd consider it," said Pfeiffer.It sounds like that wouldn't make Michael Keaton, who played opposite Pfeiffer in that role n 1992's "Batman Returns," unhappy."She pulled off the almost impossible combo of sexy, ironic, tragic, dangerous and just plain good," he told the publication.Pfeiffer is currently starring as Betty Ford in the Showtime series "The First Lady." And while her career may have seemed to have slowed down years ago, she said in the interview that she was simply focused on parenting her children with her writer and producer husband, David E. Kelley.
Putting it all out there. Viola Davis doesn’t have time for critics — especially when it comes to her portrayal of Michelle Obama on Showtime’s The First Lady.
Viola Davis has hit back at criticism of her portrayal of Michelle Obama in Showtime’s The First Lady by decrying critics as “absolutely serving no purpose.”
Viola Davis’ transformation into Michelle Obama in ‘ The First Lady’ relied on extensive “research” by her hair and makeup team. Hair stylist Louisa Anthony “did a lot of Google searches” to get to grips with how to “recreate” the 58-year-old wife of President Barack Obama's hair with “accuracy” on the 56-year-old actress. Louisa told Harper’s Bazaar: “The scene where Viola is at a photo shoot with the now historic black-and-white dress—Ms.
Michelle Pfieffer is opening up about her latest role.
Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Showtime's examines American leadership from the eyes of three iconic First Ladies. Premiering on Sunday, April 17, will dive into Obama's, Ford's and Roosevelt's political and personal lives, while examining the impact the White House's women had on the nation. The new drama series is streaming exclusively on Showtime. Watch on Showtime«She is all things.
Inside the halls of power. Showtime’s new series The First Lady examines what goes on in the White House through the lens of presidential wives — and several stars underwent major transformations to play them.
Michelle Pfeiffer is in awe of Dakota Fanning. The 63-year-old actress met the budding actress when she was just 6 years old as co-stars on , and some two decades later they've come full circle on .While at the red carpet premiere for the Showtime scripted anthology series, Pfeiffer recalled to ET's Nischelle Turner about meeting Fanning as a little girl when they teamed up for the 2001 melodrama film, which also starred Sean Penn.«She turned seven on and I bought her a Barbie Winnebago,» Pfeiffer recalled.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMichelle Pfeiffer didn’t know much about Betty Ford before she signed on to play her in the new Showtime anthology series “The First Lady.”“I really only knew about, of course, the Betty Ford Center, which is I think what she’s the most famous for,” Pfeiffer told me at the show’s premiere on Thursday at the DGA building in Los Angeles. “And I knew that she came out and was open and transparent about her own issues with substance abuse and alcoholism, which was very, very taboo at the time.
Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Showtime's examines American leadership from the eyes of three iconic First Ladies. Premiering on Sunday, April 17, will dive into Obama's, Ford's and Roosevelt's political and personal lives, while examining the impact the White House's women had on the nation. The new drama series is set to stream exclusively on Showtime. Sign Up for Showtime«She is all things.
Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Showtime's examines American leadership from the eyes of three iconic First Ladies. Premiering on Sunday, will dive into Obama's, Ford's and Roosevelt's political and personal lives, while examining the impact the White House's women had on the nation. Sign Up for Showtime«She is all things. She is a hero,» Davis told ET about portraying Mrs.
LOS ANGELES -- “The First Lady” presents three influential women, three acclaimed actors playing them, and a century of history encompassing wars, presidential scandal and America's stubborn gender and race fault lines.The ambitious Showtime drama series proved an irresistible challenge for Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier. While its subjects — Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama — each have a “compelling and gripping" story, the sum is even greater, Bier said of her first biographical project.“It was interesting to me that it wasn't one biopic,” Bier said in an interview.
The First Lady, snaps at Barack, coming home from work during the 2008 election to find her home crawling with secret service agents. The accuracy of Davis’ Obama is uncanny, almost surreal. With Davis taking point on a stellar trio including as Eleanor Roosevelt and as Betty Ford, The First Lady vivifies intimate scenes that have played over and over in the popular imagination. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The show invites us to watch history through new eyes, literally.
The stars of The First Lady are hitting the red carpet!
Fans might think it's hard for a seasoned, award-winning and beloved actor like Viola Davis to be shaken by any role, but the star isn't afraid to admit that her most recent project was a little nerve-wracking.In fact, the actress called portraying Michelle Obama for Showtime's scripted anthology series, , «absolutely terrifying.» Davis spoke with ET's Nischelle Turner ahead of the premiere of the non-fiction series alongside her co-stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson, who star as Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt, respectively. The show’s first season, directed and executive produced by Susanne Bier, follows the three former first ladies for «a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House.»Set in the East Wing, will show how «many of history’s most impactful and world-changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America's charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies.» The show, set to premiere on April 17, will go into the personal and political lives of three such «unique, enigmatic women,» recounting their journeys from wife to Washington.Davis noted that the scariest aspect of portraying Obama was the idea that she was someone whom «everyone has ownership over.»«You’re terrified whenever you start a job because you are afraid you are going to be found out — that’s big imposter syndrome.
Three iconic actresses are playing three iconic women of history.
, which will go inside the lives of three influential first ladies of the United States. The show’s first season, which will be directed and executive produced by, will star as Michelle Obama, as Betty Ford, and as Eleanor Roosevelt.“It’s one of those jobs where you almost have to say yes before you think about it too much because if you think too much you might actually say no out of fear or being absolutely terrified,” Anderson told ET about joining the series and taking on the daunting task of portraying such an iconic figure, with Davis adding that it was “absolutely terrifying” taking on someone like Obama, whom “everyone has ownership over.”“Once I realized the scope of this character, it was terrifying,” Pfeiffer said of joining the series, noting that she didn’t “want to let anyone down” with her portrayal.That said, they all came to slay.
upcoming series, “The First Lady” — but she met a certain president way back when. The 53-year-old recalled meeting former President Bill Clinton back on his campaign trail in 1992 during a chat on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Tuesday evening. “The Crown” alum found herself attending a luncheon with the prez-to-be, now 75, 30 years ago. Anderson remembered being so awestruck by Clinton, that she wanted him to phone her afterwards.“He did the most miraculous thing in the world, he shakes your hand, then he grabs your elbow and at the same time he holds your arm further up,” she told host Kimmel, 54. The “X-Files” actress went on, “[It was a] slightly intimate little thing.
Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAs Chicago lawyer Michelle Obama becomes First Lady Michelle Obama in Showtime’s newest drama, her predecessor Laura Bush offers some words of advice and comfort. “You may think you have nothing in common with the First Ladies before you,” Laura tells her, “[but] trust me when I say we all felt that way.” Here, Laura Bush acts as both some benign voice of reason (an odd choice) and also as a mouthpiece for “The First Lady” writ large (odder), which tackles the stories of three First Ladies who share little beyond the fact of living in the White House (oddest, by a mile).There’s Michelle, played by Viola Davis with Obama’s familiar cadence (if also some very exaggerated stenciled half-moon eyebrows).
Viola Davis did speak with Michelle Obama before she played her in Showtime’s upcoming The First Lady, but she is reluctant to share much of what they talked about in their private conversation.
Carson Burton Emmy-award winning composer Geoff Zanelli is slated to compose the music for “The First Lady,” premiering on Showtime. The new hour-long anthology drama follows the lives of three of America’s First Ladies and stars Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt.Zanelli served as composer of films such as “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” and “Christopher Robin,” and he won an Emmy award for his work in the Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks miniseries “Into the West.” He also was nominated for HBO’s “The Pacific,” another Spielberg collaboration.“I’ve had the honor of writing music for ‘The Pacific’ and ‘Into The West,’ both shows about distinct times in America’s history, but nothing as intimate as ‘The First Lady,'” Zanelli said.
Manori Ravindran International EditorFew people can say their comfort zone is in playing strong women, but for Gillian Anderson, it ’s become something of a personal brand.The American-British actor, who was once best-known for her skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully in Fox’s long-running sci-fi hit “The X-Files,” has gone on to play detective Stella Gibson in “The Fall,” notorious British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” and sex therapist Jean Milburn in “Sex Education.” (And you wouldn’t want to cross any of them.)Anderson — who will receive the Variety Icon Award in a ceremony at CannesSeries on April 1 — will next be seen portraying the rarely dramatized Eleanor Roosevelt, opposite Viola Davis’ Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Betty Ford, in Showtime’s drama “The First Lady.” But portraying no-nonsense women didn’t begin as a conscious choice for Anderson. In 1993, she recognized a “stark difference” between the Dana Scully role and “pretty much everything else on television at the time,” though, at age 24, she wouldn’t have labelled Scully as the feminist icon she’d come to represent.“I don’t think it was as clear-cut in my mind as being, ‘Oh, this is a feminist character,’” she says.
Academy Award nominees were honored at the annual Oscars luncheon on Monday, which celebrated the biggest names in this year's most-celebrated films. That meant stars like Will Smith, Denzel Washington and Bradley Cooper brushing elbows on the red carpet, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz enjoying a day date to celebrate their respective nominations, and plenty more star-studded moments.For star Marlee Matlin, this year's Oscars is a bit of a full-circle event.
Wilson Chapman editorShowtime and The Ritz-Carlton are teaming up this spring to bring the White House to the people in a new promotion for the upcoming Showtime anthology series “The First Lady.”“We are excited to collaborate with The Ritz-Carlton and Marriott Bonvoy to bring to life the world of ‘The First Lady’ for hotel guests, Marriott Bonvoy members and the public,” said Showtime CMO Michael Engleman. “Our longstanding relationship with Marriott International provides guests access to premium Showtime content and this one-of-a-kind experience builds on that tradition to spotlight these remarkable women.”“The First Lady” which premieres April 17, focuses on three different First Ladies during the periods their husbands were in office as president: Michelle Obama, played by Viola Davis; Betty Ford, played by Michelle Pfeiffer; and Eleanor Roosevelt, played by Gillian Anderson.
Cathy Schulman and Susanne Bier opened up during the TCA Press Tour this week about Showtime’s upcoming The First Lady series and revealed which other First Ladies they have their eyes on for upcoming seasons.
The executive producers of the upcoming Showtime anthology series The First Lady are already thinking about what historical women to focus on in Season 2. Its debut season, centering Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), premieres on April 17.
Viola Davis stars in Showtime’s The First Lady in the role of Michelle Obama, and she admits she’s nervous about what the former First Lady will think of her performance. The anthology drama is set to premiere on April 17.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterShowtime’s upcoming “The First Lady” anthology series is described as “a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House.” While the first season focuses on icons Michelle Obama (played by Viola Davis), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), the executive producers are not opposed to a potential future season including possibly the most divisive first lady: Melania Trump.During a virtual panel promoting the show at the Television Critics Association’s press tour Wednesday, “The First Lady” showrunner Cathy Schulman and director and executive producer Susanne Bier playfully tossed a reporter’s question about featuring President Donald Trump’s wife as subject before Bier answered definitively, but with a laugh: “Look, I do think that the series could do with a fun season — so let’s talk about that.” Star Anderson, who was sitting on the panel alongside co-star Davis, added: “I think the hope is that there’s going to be future seasons and there will be the opportunity to have many, many more first ladies represented. So maybe not just four — but maybe 104.”But Bier says that no matter how many seasons they do, she’d like to keep the number of first ladies to three per installment for a very specific reason.“Three is a great number for a season because you can do in-depth contrasts, but it’s also incredibly interesting how the three ladies reflect upon each other,” Bier said.
is in the upcoming Showtime series The First Lady.The 10-episode follows Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Betty Ford as they navigate life in the White House and the spotlight. In addition to Davis, who is also an executive producer on the series, The First Lady stars and as the women of The White House.
Three of America’s most influential first ladies are at the center of Showtime’s historical drama, “The First Lady.” The trailer for the first season, directed and executive produced by Susanne Bier, sees Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt.
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