FX has released the first trailer for its very prestige-y TV limited series Mrs. America. Cate Blanchett stars as conservative darling Phyllis Schlafly, who fought against the women’s lib movement to halt passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, and she’s brought a whole bus of your favorite actresses with her: Uzo Aduba is congresswoman Shirley Chisholm; Rose Byrne is activist Gloria Steinem; Melanie Lynskey is Rosemary Thomson, a friend and early ally of Schlafly’s; Margo Martindale is Bella Abzug, a congresswoman who championed the ERA; Sarah Paulson is playing a fictional character named Alice, who is Schlafly’s closest confidante and a fellow anti-ERA warrior; Jeanne Tripplehorn is Schlafly’s sister-in-law, Eleanor; and Tracey Ullman will play feminist activist Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique and co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus. But there are also some men! James Marsden plays Illinois congressman Phil Crane, a powerful advocate of Schlafly’s agenda, and John Slattery will play her husband, Fred. The gender wars continue on Hulu starting April 15.
Cate Blanchett Fights the ‘Feminist Totalitarian Nightmare’ in Mrs. America Trailer
