{"id":136688,"date":"2019-08-26T15:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=136688"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:58:07","slug":"viola-davis-to-play-michelle-obama-in-first-ladies-series-for-showtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/viola-davis-to-play-michelle-obama-in-first-ladies-series-for-showtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis to Play Michelle Obama in \u2018First Ladies\u2019 Series For Showtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-136689\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 212'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Viola-Davis-Michelle-Obama-photo-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/tv\/news\/viola-davis-michelle-obama-first-ladies-showtime-series-1203314173\/\">Variety <\/a>is reporting that Emmy-Award winner <strong>Viola Davis<\/strong> has signed on to play <strong>former First Lady Michelle Obama<\/strong> in a series titled <strong>\u201cFirst Ladies\u201d<\/strong> which is in the works at Showtime. The network has given the prospective one-hour drama a three-script commitment, with novelist Aaron Cooley on board to write and executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>The series will peel back the curtain on the personal and political lives of First Ladies from throughout history, with season one focusing on Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama. \u201cFirst Ladies\u201d will turn it lens on the East Wing of the White House, as opposed to the West, where many of history\u2019s most impactful and world changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America\u2019s charismatic, complex and dynamic First Ladies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-135756\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 168'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Black-Love-Viola-Davis-and-Julius-Tennon-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Davis and her partner <strong>Julius Tennon<\/strong> serve as non-writing executive producers on the project via their JuVee Productions banner, alongside Cathy Schulman via Welle Entertainment, Jeff Gaspin via Gaspin Media, and Brad Kaplan via LINK Entertainment. The series hails from Showtime and Lionsgate Television.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Obama has been portrayed on film before, but never on television. She was notably played by Tika Sumpter in the 2016 picture <strong>\u201cSouthside With You.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-132260\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 157'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Barack-Obama-and-Michelle-Obama-cover-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Obamas are making the leap into content production themselves via their recently launched Higher Ground Productions. So far, the company\u2019s originals slate is staying away from anything directly involving politics, with \u201cBloom,\u201d an upstairs\/downstairs drama series set in the world of fashion in post-WWII New York City, and a feature film adaptation of author David W. Blight\u2019s \u201cFrederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom\u201d high up on the list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-132211\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/viola-davis-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Davis\u2019 TV schedule is set to clear up in early 2020 as her five-year, six-season stint on \u201cHow to Get Away with Murder\u201d comes to an end. Speaking at Variety\u2019s Inclusion Summit earlier this year, Davis discussed some of her upcoming projects with JuVee and how to stop Hollywood from \u201cdictating the storytelling\u201d for people of color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look to the past and look at storytelling where there\u2019s a huge deficit in terms of our voice and our presence, that\u2019s not a good place to start,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we have to fight for, and this is what I\u2019m proud about with JuVee, is autonomy in storytelling and production and all of it. Don\u2019t just tell me that the only way Viola can exist in the story is if a white person is leading the charge and I\u2019m in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he series will peel back the curtain on the personal and political lives of First Ladies from throughout history <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/viola-davis-to-play-michelle-obama-in-first-ladies-series-for-showtime\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":136689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,143],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-read"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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