'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.
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 First Lady," debuting 9 p.m. EDT Sunday, stars Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Viola Davis as Michelle Obama. Davis was an executive producer for the series, as were showrunner Cathy Schulman and Bier. Bier said the first-lady role doesn't exist in her native Denmark. While she was familiar with the women portrayed in the series, she gained new respect for them.
"The First Lady" approaches the stories as a tapestry, weaving together moments that, at times, show how similar the women's experience was despite the decades that separated them. The parallels involving the women is strictly thematic since their lives don't overlap in history or the series. Bier, who came on board after the approach was determined, felt that the arc of the women's individual stories wasn't fully developed in the script.
That was accomplished during the editing in London, said Bier, who won the best foreign language Oscar in 2011 for "Hævnen" , received a directing Emmy for 2016's "The Night Manager" and whose other credits include "The Undoing" and "Birdbox."
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