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The theme of tonight’s Primetime Emmys was ‘Come As You Are’ in the pandemic, and for Limited Series Watchmen Lead Actress winner Regina King and Limited Series Mrs America Supporting Actress winner Uzo Aduba it meant using their fashion to bring light to the Black Lives Matter movement. Both winners wore T-shirts…

Following her supporting actress Emmy win for the FX limited series Mrs. America, Uzo Aduba took the opportunity to pay tribute to the late, great Ruth Bader Ginsburg, calling the Supreme Court justice’s recent passing “absolutely devastating.” Speaking in the Emmys virtual press room Sunday night following her third…

Uzo Aduba nabbed her third career Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a limited series for her role in the FX miniseries Mrs. America, beating out Margo Martindale, Tracey Ullman, Jean Smart, Holland Taylor. “You are all exceptional,” Aduba praised her fellow nominees while accepting the award donned in a…

On Mrs. America, composer Kris Bowers was excited to immerse himself in a story of an icon he knew little about, crafting unique sounds for the opposing sides of a major historical battle. Starring Cate Blanchett, the FX miniseries follows conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, as she leads a fight against the Equal…

The stars and team of Mrs. America said their time spent on the newly Emmy-nominated Hulu/FX show encouraged them to redefine what it means to be a feminist and activist. “I used to think change was this march forward and that it was linear and we kept moving ahead. But learning about the anti-feminists and the stop…

Mrs. America‘s Cate Blanchett is expanding her relationship with FX Productions, signing a first-look TV production deal with the studio behind the critically praised limited series via her Dirty Films, an independent film and TV production company co-founded by Blanchett and Andrew Upton. The pact covers all scripted…

With voting for this year’s Emmy nominations coming into the final stretch, today’s episode of our Deadline weekly podcast, TV Talk, once again dives into a handicap of some key races, in this case for Best Limited Series and Best Movie Made for Television. Among top contenders in the uber-crowded Limited Series race…

“We were in a very intense post on Captain Marvel and had no interest in reading or committing to doing anything at that particular moment,” Mrs. America executive producer and director Ryan Fleck said about how he boarded the Dahvi Waller-created limited series with his directing partner Anna Boden. The series tells…

Rose Byrne has demonstrated fierce comedic timing in movies like Bridesmaids, Spy, the Neighbors franchise and this year's Like a Boss. But the Australian native's turn as feminist trailblazer and Ms. magazine co-founder Gloria Steinem in FX's limited series Mrs. America reminds us of her chameleon-level expertise…

She’s set the hip tone before the Bride’s bloody samurai battle in the House of Blue Leaves in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 with “Woo Hoo” from Japanese girl band The 5.6.7.8’s and she’s made Margaret Qualley’s hippie character Pussycat jump for joy to Neil Diamond’s “Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show&#8221…

In the biggest panel of all 44 shows in Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, all seven key female stars of FX’s Mrs. America gathered in different locations to talk about the limited series, which centers on the fight for the ERA as well as the women's liberation movement centering on those who fought hard…

Mrs. America showrunner, writer and executive producer Dahvi Waller has worked in the past on shows that presented women of all stripes including AMC’s Mad Men and Halt and Catch Fire, as well as ABC’s Desperate Housewives. But with this acclaimed new FX limited series, she really runs the gamut in a story that…