Oscar-winning actress and outspoken LGBTQ ally Julia Roberts has a reason to celebrate this week: the trailer for Gaslit, her new limited series, has hit the web.Related: Local newspaper’s major Julia Roberts typo goes viralGaslit recounts the true story of Martha Mitchell (Roberts), the activist wife of U.S.
Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn), who actually went public with evidence of Richard Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate scandal.
Mitchell also had a reputation around Washington as a loudmouth Republican cheerleader, not unlike any number of modern pundits on cable news.
Her vocal criticism of Nixon made her the target of Republican “fixers,” who launched a media smear campaign against her and, according to reports, held her hostage in a California hotel room.