Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon say you’ve to pay the associated fee for being well-known: ‘It’s change into a sport for folks…’

Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are all set to return as Alex Levy and Bradley Jackson in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show Season 2 from September 17 however earlier than the present begins, the actors had a chat with international media concerning the sequence and what followers must be anticipating from the drama this time round. The first season of the present acquired blended critiques, nevertheless it earned Aniston the Screen Actors Guild Award for her function because the newscaster who’s caught in a crossfire between the community and her co-host Mitch, performed by Steve Carell, who has been accused of sexual harassment and is below extreme public scrutiny.
The second season is ready after the occasions of the Season 1 finale that noticed Alex and Bradley unmask their company and its problematic work tradition. While the primary season of the present was centered across the #MeToo motion, the second season takes the viewers to the pre-pandemic period, simply earlier than the world shut down. Reese Witherspoon talked concerning the themes of the second season and shared, “This season is really exploring that time right before the whole world shut down. So it’s January to March (2020) right before. And we’re dealing with systemic racism, homophobia, ageism, and our newfound power and what our relationship to power is, as women inside of a news media organisation.”

As seen within the first season of the present, The Morning Show offers with quite a lot of office politics the place even seasoned information anchors know that their place within the enterprise is extraordinarily fragile. When requested about being “replaceable” in Hollywood, Reese mentioned that the current occasions are fairly “unforgivable.” “We’re all capable of terrible things and we’re all capable of great things. And none of us are just the one horrible thing we ever did,” she mentioned whereas speaking concerning the nature of the enterprise the place previous actions of a person proceed to hang-out them.
Reese believes that the present “beautifully addresses cancel culture” and the way there’s a “human cost to exiling people or condemning them for one thing they did in their lives.” In the present’s first season, Steve Carell’s Mitch Kessler faces the ‘cancel culture’ after it comes out that he has been exploiting girls on the office through the use of his energy.
Jennifer Aniston was praised for her efficiency on the primary season of The Morning Show. (Photo: Apple TV+)
In the primary trailer of the sequence, Jennifer’s Alex talked about how there’s a value that one has to pay for being well-known. Talking about that assertion from her character, Jennifer mentioned that “there is a price to pay.” She added, “I keep saying it’s become a sport for people to sort of decide how they feel about a different person this week or the following week, or what they’ve said, or if something was said out of context. It’s a lot more than just, we’re going to perform for you and we’re going to create a show so that you can be entertained.”
Reese added that success certainly has a value, but in addition that “success without meaning or purpose can feel very empty.” “I think there’s a lot of people who have achieved a lot and they’re unhappy. We all know them,” she shared. In the sequence, Reese’s Bradley comes from a humble background and remains to be adjusting to the high-profile life she now has in New York.
The Morning Show Season 2 begins streaming on Apple TV+ from September 17.