Spread your arms out wide, Viola Davis, because they're probably going to be filled with shiny awards next year after Showtime’s 'The First Lady' debuts
for the drama anthology series, Davis transforms into former first lady Michelle Obama in such a way that we can only assume she has another Golden Globe or Emmy coming her way. Ditto for her co-stars Michelle Pfeiffer, who takes on the role of Betty Ford, and Gillian Anderson, who plays Eleanor Roosevelt.
The minute-long clip hints at the drama and the challenges each woman faced during their respective husband’s tenure in the White House. “They want to turn me into a Black Martha Stewart?” asks Davis, pitch-perfect as Obama. “I have done everything I was supposed to do,” cries Pfeiffer’s Ford to her husband, played bys Aaron Eckhart. And as vocal activist Roosevelt, Anderson flexes some campy accent work while declaring, “You have a wife who has a life of her own.