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And it's a pleasure.Imagine for a moment what the first female president of the United States will be like. 'I love the way Mackenzie is in the world and how she deals with people, how straight she is, how intelligent and confident. 'It's certainly the role with the most gravitas that I've had to play and I find that fascinating. However you want to look at it,' Davis said. 'For Thelma to be president - I just think it's delightful.

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Her administration doesn't make it to TV until the fall, but she's already excited about taking on the challenges of the Oval Office. He gets to be president and an action star, so that's sort of the best.'

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'My favorite president movie is 'Air Force One,' and I think it's because the president gets a gun and saves everybody. Next thing I know, what, you've gotten, like, 400 miles now on it? It's just amazing.' 'And she's going to skull on the Potomac in the third episode. 'The next thing I know, she's being trained by the Dodgers on pitching. 'She researches like crazy,' Lurie said, pointing to an upcoming scene in which the new president throws out the first pitch at a baseball game. 'I can certainly say that in my later years - it may sound strange - but taking up sports and doing physical parts did have a profound effect on me, on my sense of myself and my self-confidence.' It's definitely a part of it,' Davis said. 'Age helps with a part like this, I think. So I believe we all have everything within us - the ability to be a killer or the girlfriend of an insect.'Īnd she's finding it within herself to be the president of the United States. I really more find the parts of myself that the character has. I don't really work that way when I play a role. 'Oh, I'm a Democrat as well,' Davis said, adding, 'I don't really base my characterization on anybody. 'I'm not ashamed that this is my political bent.' At least that's what they're promising.Īs for Davis' own political views, 'I am very involved right now in the politics of making sure that ABC and Touchstone are very happy with this show,' she said.

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Not that her political views - or those of series creator/executive producer/writer Rod Lurie ('The Contender') - a Democrat - will come into play on the series. 'I mean, it sounds like America is ready.' 'I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman,' Davis said.

It may seem a bit out there, but then again, maybe not. His sudden death leaves her in the Oval Office despite a complete lack of support from GOP leaders. 27, Davis plays Mackenzie Allen, an independent elected vice president on the ticket with a Republican.

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'And I think it's equally interesting to go from that to the leader of the free world.' I loved that I went straight from being an incredibly deadly assassin in 'Long Kiss Goodnight' to the mother of a mouse I thought that was fabulous. 'I consider myself incredibly fortunate in that I play so many different kinds of parts and in virtually every drama from period to comedy, drama, action - pretty much everything,' Davis said. It's not like Davis hasn't already done a wide variety of roles in movies like 'Thelma & Louise,' 'Stuart Little,' 'The Fly,' 'A League of Their Own,' 'Beetlejuice,' 'Earth Girls are Easy' and 'The Accidental Tourist,' for which she won a best-supporting actress Oscar. 'I did have to go through this whole reading-it thing.' 'When my agents said that I had been approached to play the president on this show, I said, 'So do I have to read it first or will you just say yes now?' 'I have to say I leapt at the chance,' Davis said. When Geena Davis was offered the lead in ABC's new fall series 'Commander In Chief,' she didn't hesitate to accept.