“It’s just, it’s very, very weighty.
Not to say she wasn’t prepared.
“I had my one script that had all of my notes.
Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford in ‘The First Lady’; the real Betty Ford in 1976.Murray Close/SHOWTIME; Hulton Archive/Getty Images
And then I had my other script that I would constantly revise with the new changes that came along.
And then I had another one for something….
I don’t remember what it was for.”
“The week?”
“And I laminated it and it was sort of this accordion.
It was very colorful….
It was folded out and everything.”
“Just a little bit OCD,” jokes Anderson, who stars as Eleanor Roosevelt on the series.
“I said I would never do it again,” Pfeiffer says having wrappedFirst Lady.
“It’s just, it’s very, very weighty.
And it’s with you all the time.
I’m never doing it again.”
Still, she’s “proud” to have honored the first lady’s legacy.
“I didn’t know half of the contribution that Betty Ford made,” she says.
And I mean, is if that isn’t enough, there’s so much more to her.
I’m really honored that I was given the opportunity to share that story with everyone.”
