“I think Michelle Obama really sacrificed a lot being in the White House, being the first lady, but being the first lady of color also, which is … who do you go to to learn that?” Davis asked rhetorically.
Davis, 54, added that she referred to Obama’s record-breaking New York Times bestseller Becoming to help her research her role. But it has hardly allayed her fears.
“Listen, here’s the thing, you could either fail really big or succeed really big, and I feel this is my succeed very big or fail very big moment.”
Davis said the lives of first ladies in the White House have always interested her.
“I’m always intrigued by the first ladies. I’m always intrigued by the person who doesn’t get as much attention as the other person. And I don’t wanna say ‘the women behind the men,’ the women beside the men, what their sacrifices are … their day-to-day.”
The series “First Ladies” will also delve into the lives of other dynamic wives of former presidents, including pioneers Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Ford.
