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Cate Blanchett Is Coming for Every. Single. Award in the "Mrs. America" Trailer

Get ready to love-hate her as Phyllis Schlafly, "the sweetheart of the silent majority."

FX is quickly becoming the go-to destination for the greatest actresses wearing the greatest wigs while flaunting the greatest accents (see: Michelle Williams in Fosse/Verdon. Right now. I'll wait). This April, two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett along with an assemblage of character actresses you can't shake a stick at tell the story of the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in Mrs. America.

Ryan Murphy, FX's star producer and prime progenitor of historical melodrama, has defected to Netflix, but FX seems to be doing just fine. Created by Dahvi Waller (known for her work on Halt and Catch Fire, Mad Men, and Desperate Housewives), the new series "explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the '70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted the political landscape."

Good times.

Blanchett stars as anti-feminist crusader Phyllis Schlafly, known as "the sweetheart of the silent majority." Schlafly, who died in 2016 at age 92, opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, arguing that it would strip women of the "privileges" of womanhood, like being a "dependent wife," having gender-specific bathrooms, and avoiding the draft.

Schlafly's campaign against the ERA proved successful, but Mrs. America comes at a particularly relevant moment in history. Virginia, having recently come under all-Democratic leadership, could be that elusive 38th state needed to ratify the ERA into the Constitution.

Though Schlafly is the central figure in Mrs. America, the second episode is told through the point of view of Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne), and the third through that of Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba). Rounding out the cast—brace yourself—we have: Tracey Ullman as Betty Friedan; Margo Martindale as Bella Abzug; Elizabeth Banks as Jill Ruckelshaus; Niecy Nash as Flo Kennedy; and the reigning queen of FX, Sarah Paulson, as Alice, a composite character loosely based on Schlafly's real-life neighbor.

Do you her that? It's the sound of the Emmys loading up a U-Haul with trophies to dump into Mrs. America's lap.

Mrs. America premieres April 15 on FX and Hulu. Check out the trailer below for some historical slay-acting.

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