Dahvi Waller and the story behind ‘Mrs. America’

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Television writer and producer Dahvi Waller joins host Mark Olsen to talk about “Mrs. America,” FX's new miniseries based on the historical movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s excursively on Hulu. Waller discusses how the show explores the struggle to ratify the amendment and…

Multiple perspectives shine through in “Mrs. America,” the new FX miniseries on Hulu that centers around the 1970s fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. The creator of the series, Dahvi Waller, grappled with how to bring such a tense and historical movement to television in the 21st“I think every writer who writes a period drama of any kind grapples with how to remove that modern-day lens that we just automatically have,” Waller told Times film writer Mark Olsen for “The Reel” podcast.

Waller says it was important for her to explain the roles that each character played and how exactly they each fit into the movement of the time.“This is very much an ensemble piece. It’s not a biopic. It’s not a biopic of Phyllis Schlafly. It’s not a biopic of Gloria Steinem. It really is an ensemble,” she said.

 

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