The First Lady

In an episode of The X-Files (1997), Special Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) asks Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who she would want to be if she could be someone else. She says Eleanor Roosevelt. Anderson plays Eleanor Roosevelt in this series.

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This is the second time Gillian Anderson and Ellen Burstyn have played daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. The first was in Playing by Heart (1998).

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Ellen Burstyn had previously played former First Lady Barbara Bush in the film W. (2008).

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Michelle Pfeiffer has worked with both Fanning sisters: with Dakota Fanning in this series and with Elle Fanning in I Am Sam (2001) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019).

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Both Michelle Pfeiffer and Aaron Eckhart have played Batman villains. Pfeiffer played Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992), and Eckhart played Two-Face in The Dark Knight (2008).

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It was filmed at Cinelease Studios in Covington, Georgia.

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Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis had previously appeared in DC films featuring Batman: The Dark Knight (2008), Batman Returns (1992) and Suicide Squad (2016).

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The series' cast includes two Oscar winners, Viola Davis and Ellen Burstyn, and two Oscar nominees, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jackie Earle Haley.

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In 2003, Susanne Bier was in talks to direct Chasing Montana, a film Michelle Pfeiffer was developing.

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