Gillian Anderson on playing Eleanor Roosevelt in “The First Lady” on Showtime

“She was going to say what she was going to say, and she felt that even though she was terrified of public speaking and even though she had grown up being told that she was an ugly duckling and that she had no worth in the world, she knew that her causes and what she had to say and what she had to do were so much more important

than the fear that she felt. ”