{"id":143064,"date":"2020-03-28T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=143064"},"modified":"2020-03-30T20:42:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:42:50","slug":"first-look-at-jay-ellis-and-new-images-from-fx-limited-series-mrs-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/first-look-at-jay-ellis-and-new-images-from-fx-limited-series-mrs-america\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look At Jay Ellis & New Images From FX Limited Series, ‘Mrs. America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MRS. AMERICA — Pictured: Jay Ellis as Frank Thomas. CR: Pari Dukovic\/FX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FX has released new images for the limited series,\u00a0Mrs. America<\/strong>, including the first look at Insecure’s Jay Ellis as Frank Thomas<\/strong>.\u00a0Spanning nine episodes, the series will debut\u00a0April 15 on Disney’s FX on Hulu.<\/p>\n

As Gloria Steinem\u2019s romantic interest, Frank Thomas was an accomplished lawyer, charismatic community leader, and divorced father of four, who served as President of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation during the 1970s. He was also president and CEO of the Ford Foundation from 1979 until 1996.<\/p>\n

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Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka \u201cthe sweetheart of the silent majority.\u201d Through the eyes of the women of the era \u2013 both Schlafly and second wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus \u2013 the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 1970s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted the political landscape.<\/p>\n

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MRS. AMERICA — Pictured: Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisholm. CR: Pari Dukovic\/FX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mrs. America features an all-star team in front of and behind the cameras. Two-time Academy Award\u00ae and Golden Globe\u00ae Award winner Cate Blanchett<\/strong> headlines as Phyllis Schlafly, leading a stellar cast portraying some of the most iconic women of the era, including Emmy Award nominated Rose Byrne<\/strong> as Gloria Steinem, Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale<\/strong> as Bella Abzug, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Uzo Aduba<\/strong> as Shirley Chisholm,<\/p>\n

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MRS. AMERICA — Pictured: Niecy Nash as Florynce “Flo” Kennedy. CR: Sabrina Lantos\/FX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emmy Award nominated Elizabeth Banks<\/strong> as Jill Ruckelshaus, Emmy Award nominated Niecy Nash <\/strong>as Flo Kennedy,and Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Tracey Ullman<\/strong> as Betty Friedan. The cast also boasts Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Sarah Paulson <\/strong>as Alice Macray, Emmy Award nominated John Slattery<\/strong>, Emmy Award nominated Jeanne Tripplehorn<\/strong>, Ari Graynor, Melanie Lynskey <\/strong>as Rosemany Thomson,\u00a0James Marsden, Brie Henderson, Jay Ellis<\/strong> and Kayli Carter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Executive Producers are Emmy Award winner Dahvi Waller, who serves as creator and showrunner, Academy Award nominated Stacey Sher, Coco Francini, Cate Blanchett and Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, who directed four of the nine episodes, including the first two. Amma Asante, Janizca Bravo and<\/p>\n

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Aduba (Orange Is the New Black) as Shirley Chisholm, who made history as the first African-American congresswoman. She also became the first African-American candidate to run for president from a national political party when she launched her unprecedented campaign in 1972.<\/p>\n

John Slattery (Mad Men) as Fred Schlafly, Phyllis\u2019 anti-Communist husband who was a prominent lawyer and GOP donor<\/p>\n

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Rose Byrne (Damages) as Gloria Steinem, the most recognizable leader of the women\u2019s movement, who co-founded the magazine Ms. and played a major part in the effort to pass the ERA<\/p>\n

Margo Martindale (The Americans) as Bella Abzug, a three-term congresswoman who spearheaded the effort to pass the ERA<\/p>\n

Ari Graynor (I\u2019m Dying Up Here) as Brenda Feigen-Fasteau, a Harvard-educated lawyer and young feminist who co-founded Ms. with Steinem<\/p>\n

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Melanie Lynskey (Castle Rock) as Rosemary Thomson, a homemaker in Schlafley\u2019s inner circle who eagerly joined her fight against the ERA<\/p>\n

Tracey Ullman (The Tracey Ullman Show) as Betty Friedan, known as the mother of the women\u2019s movement. An active proponent of the ERA, Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique and co-founded the National Women\u2019s Political Caucus.<\/p>\n

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Jeanne Tripplehorn (Criminal Minds) as Eleanor Schlafly, Fred\u2019s unmarried sister and a close confidant of Phyllis, who is also a devoted aunt to Phyllis\u2019 six children<\/p>\n

Kayli Carter (Godless) as Pamela, a young and impressionable (and fictional) housewife who is an early member of Phyllis\u2019 anti-ERA movement.<\/p>\n

Nash will portray Flo Kennedy, friend and confidant to Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm, who co-created the Black Feminist Organization from salon style meetings in her apartment.<\/p>\n

Marsden (Westworld) as Phil Crane, a conservative congressman from Phyllis\u2019 home state of Illinois and one of her most powerful allies<\/p>\n