Dakota Fanning Casted as Susan Ford in Showtime Series “The First Lady”
By Kurt Balingit
Showtime has casted Dakota Fanning as Susan Ford in the upcoming anthology series “The First Lady”. The show will follow the lives of some of the most famous first ladies and their time in the White House.
Susan Ford is the only child of Betty Ford, played by Michelle Pfeiffer and President Gerald Ford, played by Aaron Eckhart. During the time Gerald Ford was in office, Susan was just a teenager. It is said that Susan was responsible for introducing progressive ideas to her family. Dakota Fanning will be a regular to the series and will appear in six episodes. This role reunites Dakota Fanning with Michelle Pfeiffer, who both starred in the 2001 film “I Am Sam,” which saw Fanning become the youngest person to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Fanning joins a cast that also stars Viola Davis a Michelle Obama, O-T Fagbenle as President Barack Obama and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt. The series is will relive some of America’s most famous (and infamous) events through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House.
The series was written and will be executively produced by Aaron Cooley. On February 25th, 2021, it was announced that filming had begun and will premiere later this year.