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Does Viola Davis Feel Pressure Playing Michelle Obama In ‘The First Lady?’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The upcoming drama The
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Speaker 1: First Lady tells the true stories of the extraordinary women
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Speaker 1: who lived in the White House through various administrations. Season
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Speaker 1: one focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, and Michelle Obama
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Speaker 1: played by Violet Davis, who admits she's nervous for the
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Speaker 1: real former floatist to see it telling a panel. As
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Speaker 1: much as we feel like we know Michelle Obama and
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Speaker 1: did everything I could to research her, there are those
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Speaker 1: private moments where there's some level of creative decision making
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Speaker 1: that you have to take. I don't know how she
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Speaker 1: is with Barack privately, or how she disciplines her children.
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Speaker 1: There are small minutia, but I can just take the
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Speaker 1: creative license with and hope that I'm not insulting her
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Speaker 1: with it. That's where you have to navigate as an artist.
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Speaker 1: The First Lady debut Showtime April seventeen, direct from Hollywood,