She didn’t want to be there as first lady,” Schulman says. “Eleanor wanted to be there, but only if she could be president. ![]() Despite their many differences, executive producer Cathy Schulman tells Variety that the trio shared a key conviction: “one of them wanted to be there.” The ten-episode first season follows the women from their youth to their courtships with their future husbands to the campaign trail and beyond. “ The First Lady,” a new Showtime series created by Aaron Cooley, dramatizes the challenges faced by three first wives: Eleanor Roosevelt (portrayed by Gillian Anderson), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Michelle Obama (Viola Davis). And it doesn’t come with political aspects, but you’re treated as if it did.” “You have all of the public aspects of the job. ![]() “When people are going to criticize everything from the causes you support to the china that you pick to the clothing that you wear, how do you navigate that?” asks Lisa Kathleen Graddy, curator of the first ladies collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. From Louisa Adams to Melania Trump, numerous first ladies have proven reluctant to take on the role. Shortly after Martha Washington became the inaugural first lady of the United States, she described her life in a letter to her niece as “more like a state prisoner than anything else.” Though Washington eventually adjusted to her status as a presidential spouse, her initial reaction to the unofficial position proved prescient for generations of first ladies.
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