The BAFTA-winning British filmmaker is directing two episodes of the limited series, starring Cate Blanchett and examining the unexpected backlash to the U.S. equal rights movement in the 1970s.
The Hollywood ReporterAsante will direct two episodes of the limited series, which looks into efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The nine-episode project stars Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth Banks, Uzo Aduba, Rose Byrne, Kayli Carter, Ari Graynor, Melanie Lynskey, James Marsden, Margo Martindale, Sarah Paulson, John Slattery, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Tracey Ullman.will examine the unexpected backlash to the equal rights movement led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly .
Through the eyes of the women of that era — Schlafly and second-wave feminists Gloria Steinem , Betty Friedan , Shirley Chisholm , Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus — the series will explore how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 1970s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted the political landscape of the U.S.
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