In the new USA Network miniseries Political Animals, Sigourney Weaver plays smart, tough Secretary of State Elaine Barrish. It’s a role many critics have likened to current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but Weaver says the show’s creators were thinking beyond Clinton when they devised the role.
“We’ve had three remarkable women who’ve been our secretaries of state in our last three administrations, but somehow we’re not willing as a country to elect a woman president,” she says. “And I think this show partially investigates what that’s about.”
In the series, Weaver’s character accepts the president’s invitation to become secretary of state after she loses the race for her party’s presidential nomination. She also divorces her husband, a former president who had some serious run-ins with infidelity.
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