{"id":1905,"date":"2025-08-11T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:32:38","slug":"melania-trump-used-as-inspiration-for-netflixs-new-show-about-manipulative-affair-having-politicians-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/melania-trump-used-as-inspiration-for-netflixs-new-show-about-manipulative-affair-having-politicians-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump used as inspiration for Netflix\u2019s new show about manipulative, affair-having politician\u2019s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Malin Ackerman said in an interview last week that her new Netflix show “The Hunting Wives” used first lady Melania Trump<\/a> as a main reference point for her role where she plays a manipulative, affair-having politician\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

During an interview with pop culture outlet Vulture, the actress claimed the creative team behind Netflix\u2019s pulpy show told her to think of Trump when playing Texas housewife, Margo, whose character is the wife of a rich wannabe politician and has a sordid past that includes murder, adultery and abortion.<\/p>\n

“During filming, she says, the series\u2019 creative team described Margo as a bit like Melania Trump, someone who \u2018came into a marriage to this rich man as one woman,\u2019 then finds the expectations for her have shifted once he becomes politically ambitious,” the outlet stated.<\/p>\n

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“That was the only reference, really,” Ackerman added.<\/p>\n

Her character’s background comes to light during the show and includes a poor upbringing, sex work, and a series of affairs.<\/p>\n

“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\u2019s voters won\u2019t like,” Vulture stated.<\/p>\n

Among the things she’s hiding are “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\u2019s currently having with new-to-town Sophie (Brittany Snow).”<\/p>\n

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Ackerman mentioned that in addition to Trump, she tried to emulate her impression of “high society” types in her portrayal, a set of people she doesn\u2019t see as too genuine.<\/p>\n

“Other than that, it\u2019s just high society. I\u2019ve mingled with aristocrats and high-society people and seen the games that go into it. For lack of a better word, I wouldn\u2019t say \u2018authenticity\u2019 is how those people lead,” she told Vulture.<\/p>\n

The actress noted Margo\u2019s character is a “survivor” who acts out of necessity in everything she does to get ahead.<\/p>\n

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Melania Trump has often been a target of the media since her husband first ran for president in 2016. However, she hasn\u2019t taken harsh media treatment lying down.<\/p>\n

The first lady\u2019s lawyer last week forced Democratic strategist James Carville and the crew of his “Politics War Room” podcast to remove comments<\/a> from a recent episode that suggested that Trump met her billionaire real estate mogul husband through a modeling agency connected to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

At the outset of the episode, Carville said, “After the episode, we received a letter from Melania Trump’s lawyer. He took issue with our title of one of those YouTube videos from that episode and a couple of comments I made about the first lady. We took a look at what they complained about, and we took down the video and edited out those comments from the episode. I also take back these statements and apologize.”<\/p>\n

The White House and Netflix did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actress Malin Ackerman said in an interview last week that her new Netflix show “The Hunting Wives” used first lady Melania Trump as a main reference point for her role where she plays a manipulative, affair-having politician\u2019s wife. During an interview with pop culture outlet Vulture, the actress claimed the creative team behind Netflix\u2019s pulpy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}