India, Aug. 12 -- Malin Ackerman said in an interview last week that her new Netflix series, The Hunting Wives, used first lady Melania Trump as a main reference for her role as a manipulative politician's wife who has affairs.

Speaking to Vulture, Ackerman said the creative team told her to think of the first lady when playing Margo, a Texas housewife married to a wealthy aspiring politician with a past involving murder, adultery and abortion.

"During filming, she says, the series' creative team described Margo as a bit like Melania Trump, someone who "came into a marriage to this rich man as one woman," then finds the expectations for her have shifted once he becomes politically ambitious," per the outlet.

"That was the only referenc...