'So edgy'! Susan Sarandon's taking her Bush Derangement to the small screen

Sarah D. | 5:54 PM on September 16, 2015

Ooo! Looks like we’re in for a real treat:

Exclusive: Susan Sarandon on her new TV series satirizing George W. Bush http://t.co/3prx3OWLFe pic.twitter.com/SIc6yrHfNL

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 16, 2015

Because of course. Interesting that she’s a progressive, yet she hasn’t managed to progress beyond hardcore Bush Derangement.

But we’re open-minded, so let’s here some more about this, shall we?

The star of films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Thelma & Louise, and The Client is about to begin shooting a new television series in New Mexico, Graves. Created by Joshua Michael Stern (no relation), the 10-episode show is set to premiere fall 2016 on Epix, and will be the network’s first original comedy. Sarandon will play Margaret Graves, the wife of a disgraced U.S. president (Nick Nolte) who has a “come-to-Jesus” moment and decides to go out and repair the damage he’s done 20 years after leaving the Oval Office. Meanwhile, Mrs. Graves flirts with realizing her own political ambitions.

According to Sarandon, the Nolte character is based on none other than George W. Bush. “He’s Bush,” she tells The Daily Beast. “He’s the ex-Republican president who ruined the country, did everything wrong, and wakes up one day and realizes that he fucked up. I’m his wife, and we started out as populist Republicans and, as it happens, got chewed up. So now he’s going through this big thing. Eventually, they ask me to run for the Senate because I’m like the Michelle Obama—a very popular First Lady. And there’s a crazy candidate, like a Trump, and they want me to shoot him down, so I have to decide whether or not I want to run.”

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“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” she says. “Hopefully it’s funny. Nick’s part is fantastic—it’s just so Nick. I’ve said no to TV so many times, but this one sounded so intriguing.”