
It's unusual, in very unusual circumstances." Speaking to Deadline in 2020 about the series, Mann said that Elgort took daily four-hour Japanese language classes to prepare for the role, and that this performance "will be a breakout, both for his work and for this kind of a character. The revered film director Michael Mann – who made the similarly-titled Miami Vice – directed the pilot, and multi-award-winning playwright J T Rogers created and wrote the series, while the cast includes Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) and Rachel Keller (Fargo). Inspired by Jake Adelstein's 2009 memoir of being an American journalist embedded within Tokyo Police in the 90s, Tokyo Vice looks at the "neon-soaked underbelly" of the Japanese capital.

"I want to know the real Tokyo, what's beneath the surface," says Ansel Elgort (West Side Story, Baby Driver), speaking in Japanese in the new trailer for this bilingual crime drama.

The First Lady premieres on 17 April on Showtime in the US With a supporting cast that boasts names including Kiefer Sutherland, Aaron Eckhart, Dakota Fanning and O-T Fagbenle, and The Undoing director Susanne Bier behind the camera, expect high drama, historical insight, and hopefully some of the year's finest acting. "The whole point was to always sort of finish one sentence with another character's sentence, but sometimes you're looking for similarities and sometimes you're looking for quite the opposite to make a point," producer and showrunner Cathy Schulman told Vanity Fair. Despite taking place in very different time periods, the show weaves the three stories of these great First Ladies together.
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Viola Davis is Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer is Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson is Eleanor Roosevelt in this 10-episode series about the women at the heart of the White House. Here's another anthology drama about the lives of women, but this time with some of acting's most famous faces embodying some of America's most recognisable ladies.
