Lord Dobbs, the creator of House of Cards, is considering which real-life individual is closest to Claire Underwood, the ice-cold political wife played by Robin Wright in the Netflix series.



“Hillary [Clinton],” Dobbs says after a moment’s thought. “She is a political figure in her own right – behind the scenes, but now increasingly in front of the scenes. That is much more of a Claire character than, for instance, Cherie [Blair], who as far as I’m aware didn’t become actively aware in politics as such.”

It’s not necessarily the endorsement the US presidential candidate would be after but Dobbs is obsessed with the character of the former first lady and how it’ll affect her run for the top job.

“I’m fascinated by Hillary of course, because she comes with so much baggage,” he tells BuzzFeed News, sitting on a bench outside parliament, dressed in a crisp white shirt and cufflinks. “That baggage is her strength but also her vulnerability. We just have to wait and see where the balance lies on that. Though it is bizarre that the system that was bred out of [rejection of a King] has produced the Bushes, the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Roosevelts….”