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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’s wife.
During an interview with pop culture outlet Vulture, the actress claimed the creative team behind Netflix’s 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.
"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