Melania Trump Inspiration For Actress as ‘Manipulative, Affair-Having Politician’s Wife’

There’s a proverb that goes “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

First lady 👤Melania Trump may not agree.

That’s because actress 🎬Malin Ackerman said she looked to the first lady as she played “a manipulative, affair-having politician’s wife” on 📺Netflix’s “The Hunting Wives,” per Fox News.

Ackerman spoke with Vulture about how that came about.

She said the creative team told her to think of Trump as she played a wife with a past that includes includes murder, adultery and abortion.

“During filming, she says, the series’ creative team described Margo as a bit like 👤Melania Trump, someone who ‘came into a marriage to this rich man as one woman,’ then finds the expectations for her have shifted once he becomes politically ambitious,” the outlet said.

“That was the only reference, really,” Ackerman said.