[ad_1] The First Lady presents three influential women, three acclaimed actors playing their roles, and a century of history that includes wars, presidential scandals, and America’s stubborn gender and race fault lines. The ambitious Showtime drama series proved to be an irresistible challenge for Oscar-winning director Susan Beers. While its subjects — Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama — each have a “compelling and captivating” story, the sum is even more so, Beers said of her first biographical project. Bayer said in an interview, “It was interesting to me…