"I really am choosing to think of this as an empowering moment for me because I have been this very straight, prim actress for a lot of my career," she explained on her podcast
Betty Gilpin is currently playing the titular character in the hit play, which follows Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln's 1865 assassination
Hackman and wife Betsy's dog Zinna was found dead inside a crate at their New Mexico home on Feb. 26, where Hackman and Betsy's bodies were also discovered