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.
The woman’s past comes to light when her husband enters the political arena.
“But once her husband, Jed (Dermot Mulroney), decides to run for governor on a pro-gun, anti-abortion, happy-marriage platform, Margo realizes the increased public scrutiny could threaten everything she has built for herself, exposing elements of her life Jed’s voters won’t like,” Vulture said.
The wife is hiding many things, including, “the abortion she just had after her boyfriend, a high-school student, got her pregnant; the murder she committed to cover up that fling; and the affair she’s currently having with new-to-town Sophie (Brittany Snow).”
Ackerman said she also did an impression of “high society” types, which she deems as not genuine.
“Other than that, it’s just high society. I’ve mingled with aristocrats and high-society people and seen the games that go into it. For lack of a better word, I wouldn’t say ‘authenticity’ is how those people lead,” she said.
Recently, Democratic strategist James Carville and the crew of his “Politics War Room” podcast had to remove comments and pull an episode. The comments alluded that MelanianTrump met her husband through a modeling agency connected to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
