The Handmaid’s Tale and Mad Men fame will play bisexual former Congresswoman Katie Hill in a film adapted from Hill’s recent memoir, She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality.Hill was elected to the U.S.
House from a Southern California district in 2018 as an out bi candidate, defeating an anti-LGBTQ+ incumbent and flipping the seat from Republican to Democratic.
Once in office, she was seen as a rising star, but she resigned in October 2019 after revelations of an affair with a female campaign staffer and a right-wing blog’s publication of nude photos of Hill.
Hill, who was going through a contentious divorce from her husband, was also accused of a romantic relationship with a male House staffer, which would have.