Feminist, journalist, activist, and American hero, Gloria Steinem has somehow managed to avoid getting the big-screen biopic treatment during her 80 years of life. There have, of course, been scattered appearances by both Steinem as herself (The First Wives Club) and actresses portraying her (Kirstie Alley in A Bunny’s Tale, or Peggy Lipton in the wide-ranging The ’70s), but we’ve mostly been denied a focused look at her life and career.

That’s about to change, thanks to noted feminist hero George Clooney, progressive cable channel HBO, and also Marisa Tomei and Kathy Najimy. And, yes, that’s an extremely mixed bag of talent.

Deadline reports that Tomei (who just signed a first-look deal with HBO) and Najimy (who appears on the network’s Veep) will both star in and executive-produce the miniseries Ms., named after the feminist magazine co-founded by Steinem in the early ’70s. George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Bruce Cohen will also produce the project, and Steinem herself is on board as a consultant.

The new miniseries will take “a look at the creation of Ms. Magazine in 1971 through the eyes of the woman who co-founded and ran it, Steinem (Tomei), and her best friend, member of the U.S. House of Representatives Bella Abzug (Najimy). The project also will reflect on those whose lives Ms. changed during the world-altering early days of the Women’s Movement.”

Steinem previously appeared in a documentary about her life, Gloria: In Her Own Words, which aired on HBO back in 2011. Ms., however, marks the first dramatized portrayal of her life since A Bunny’s Tale, which only focused on Steinem’s 1963 undercover investigation of life inside Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club. We’d say it’s about damn time Steinem got her own miniseries (or is it a limited series?), and we can’t wait to see what the final product looks like. It sounds like the kind of outrageous act we can all get into.