The choice to, in the third episode, follow their younger selves is particularly effective in that regard.Įpisode three says, “Look, they were all like you and I, they were all young. I just thought, ’I have to do this.’ And I was also fascinated by the notion that it wouldn’t just be a traditional biopic it would be not just a story of each specific First Lady, but the story about all First Ladies, in a way, about women in our part of the world for the last 110 years. I realized that they had changed the course of history, and I had no idea. Most importantly, I got intrigued once I started reading about them I knew a lot about Michelle Obama, but I did not know a whole lot about either Eleanor nor Betty. I immediately got intrigued by the scope of the series, and on a personal level, by the notion of actually directing 10 episodes-climbing a Mount Everest of a production. Susanne Bier: I got the description of a project about three First Ladies, focused on everything that’s happening when there are no cameras around them. How did you get involved with The First Lady ? Vanity Fair : You’d mostly done thrillers in TV before this. Bier, right, directing Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Judy Greer as Nancy Howe.
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