yeah....RIIIIIIIIGHT!!! /s
The late character actor Richard Paul was able to find steady work in Hollywood simply because they HATED Jerry Falwell and he happened to look like him.
Posted on 10/30/2018 11:37:24 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Talk about a crowning achievement: FX has lured Cate Blanchett to the small screen.
The two-time Oscar winner has signed on to star in FX’s ’70s-set limited series Mrs. America, TVLine has learned. The gig will mark Blanchett’s first major role in a U.S. television series.
Created and written by former Mad Men scribe Dahvi Waller, Mrs. America tells the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly (played by Blanchett).
Through the eyes of the women of that era — both Schlafly and second wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus — Mrs. America explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted our political landscape.
In a statement, Blanchett — who will also serve as an EP alongside Waller, Stacey Sher, and Coco Francini — hailed the timeliness of the story. “I am extremely excited about delving into the material,” she said, “as there couldn’t be a more appropriate time to peel back the layers of this recent period of history, which couldn’t be more relevant today.”
Added FX CEO John Landgraf: “Cate Blanchett is one the great actors of our time, and we are truly honored to have her star in Mrs. America. We have no doubt that Cate is the perfect actor to play the role of Phyllis Schlafly, who was one of the most polarizing and fascinatingly complex figures of the ‘70s for her opposition to and role in defeating the Equal Rights Amendment, which to this day has never been ratified.“
Production on Mrs. America is slated to begin next year.
Has the Academy of Motion Pictures stopped giving out awards to Best Actress?
Thank God for Phyllis Schlafly
Had the ERA been ratified in the 1970s we would have reached this point of imbecility by the 1990s at the latest.
Phyllis put off LBGT rights by at least 20 years
This is how Hollywood types get street cred now - throwing crap at Republicans and conservatives in movies and TV shows. They can’t come up with anything else to do in the PC world they’ve invented for themselves. This will be a vindictive hatefest.
I hope they’ll keep it realistic...
This could be very cool if they really tried to understand and explain both sides. I have no confidence it would happen though.
30 years ago alumni from Penn were proud that the shower/bathrooms in the dorms were co-ed.
This is going to be a hit piece, methinks. Shame. Mrs. Schlafly was a brilliant and devout woman.
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