Where’s Tim Daly’s Henry during all of this, you might wonder? The newly minted First Gentleman (by the way, that’s the actual title - “I thought it was First Man, which is creepy,” Leoni says, laughing) will have a full roster of duties… but don’t expect “picking new window treatments for the China Room” to be high on FGOTUS’ list. (Anyone else itching for the moment Elizabeth and fictional Philippine President Datu Andrada are in the same room again?) “Sometimes those things go unnoticed by all of us, and we’re really going to take a moment to point it out to the audience.” “We’re peeling back the difference when a female is in power versus when a man is in power,” McCreary notes. She’s just shy of her first hundred days in office, and we’ll soon watch her face pressing issues like the use of unmanned military drones, the mercurial attitudes of the American public and, y’know, the simple fact of being the nation’s first female commander-in-chief. 6 at 10/9c) picks up with President McCord nearly two years after the events of the Season 5 finale. MEET FGOTUS | The show’s final premiere (Sunday, Oct. Kevin Rahm, who plays Elizabeth’s canny adviser Mike B., was promoted to series regular, which reflects Mike’s increased influence in the season likewise, Erich Bergen’s Blake has been given an important new position in the McCord administration. The McCords’ luxurious Georgetown home was dismantled, and the White House sets were expanded. and the 10-episode order, which is less than half the length of a normal Madam Secretary season - some changes needed to occur. MAJOR CASTING CHANGES | Given the shift to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “In his mind, he said, ‘When this comes back, she’s president.'” “ David Nevins at CBS completely agreed,” she says. Leoni recalls that the choice to continue that mode of storytelling got some serious buy-in at the network. to think back over their recent past, “And we get the fun of picking and choosing the moments that we go back to, so that we don’t have to take even four or five episodes to do a whole campaign.” McCreary teases that a simmering scandal will cause Elizabeth & Co. “We found a way to have the best of both worlds, where we decided to jump ahead and make her president,” Hall says. Given that Season 6 would bow during the lead-up to the actual 2020 president election, would American audiences aspire to watching fictional mudslinging contest at the same time the real one was underway? And second, Madam Secretary‘s Powers That Be had a revelation: The show always has portrayed politics through an ideal, West Wing-ish lens, with Elizabeth leading the charge on what members of the series’ creative team refer to as “aspirational” politics. First, CBS announced that Season 6 would be the show’s last. When the finale aired, Hall and fellow executive producer Lori McCreary thought that Season 6 would portray Elizabeth’s path to the presidency via primary, the campaign trail and the eventual election. ![]() And by the time Season 5 drew to a close, Elizabeth had made it official by announcing her candidacy for President of the United States. But with each season’s renewal, the joke got a little less funny. Put all the changes together, and “It was like launching a new series,” executive producer Barbara Hall tells TVLine exclusively.Ī SWITCH-UP AND A SCANDAL | The notion of Elizabeth McCord moving into the Oval Office started as an inside joke early in the CBS drama’s run: With the production often having to wait a while to find out whether it would be back in the fall, Leoni says, such a grandiose long-term plan seemed premature at best. There’ll be new sets (goodbye, Georgetown brownstone), new challenges (the switch from diplomacy to leadership can be a tough one) and a newly reduced cast (five longtime cast members are no longer series regulars - more on that in a moment). President McCord’s baseball outing will appear in Episode 2 of the upcoming season, which the show’s producers say will look quite different from those that preceded it. “It was very important to me that as the first female president, it was gonna get to the plate.” Eventually, though, “I threw this great, like, not a strike, but damn near, from the mound,” Leoni proudly reports. Getting the shot required four tries not all of them were Hall of Fame-worthy. “I think, in my professional life, it may have been the second most terrifying day.” “I would rather have a root canal, naked, in Grand Central,” the actress tells TVLine the next day. ![]() So when it came time to take the field, both Leoni and her alter ego were sweating - and not just from the humidity. Invincible Season 2 Trailer Finds Mark Confronting New Threats - Watch
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