Trivia / The First Lady

• Actor-Shared Background: O-T Fagbenle, like Barack Obama, was born to a black father and white mother.
• Fake American: British actor O-T Fagbenle plays Barack Obama.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Gillian Anderson, who's said she's had relationships with other women in the past and isn't attracted to people based on gender (but doesn't label herself) plays Eleanor Roosevelt, who is portrayed here as having a female lover in the 1930s for a time.