EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth) has been tapped as a brand new lead reverse Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon within the upcoming third season of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show.
Beharie will play Christina Hunter,’ a grounded, aggressive, and charismatic Millennial who’s a brand new anchor on The Morning Show. Christina works exhausting, performs exhausting, and navigates the Teacup with good-humored irreverence.
She joins one other high-profile new Season 3 sequence common addition,Jon Hamm, in addition to and the return of Julianna Margulies who was launched final season. Production is presently underway.
The Morning Show follows the skilled and private lives of workers of media conglomerate UBA, specializing in the group that places collectively the community’s morning present. Season 2 discovered the crew rising from the wreckage of hosts Alex (Aniston) and Bradley’s (Witherspoon) actions, to a brand new UBA and a world in flux, the place identification is all the pieces and the chasm between who we current as and who we actually are comes into play.
Along with Aniston and Witherspoon, the Season 2 solid included Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Bel Powley, Desean Terry, Janina Gavankar, Tom Irwin and Marcia Gay Harden. New additions for season two included Greta Lee, Ruairi O’Connor, Hasan Minhaj, Holland Taylor, Tara Karsian, Valeria Golino and Margulies.
Charlotte Stoudt is Season 3 government producer and showrunner below a multi-year total cope with Apple TV+. Executive producers embrace Michael Ellenberg by Media Res, together with Aniston and Kristin Hahn by Echo Films; and Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter by Hello Sunshine. Mimi Leder serves as government producer and director.
The Morning Show was most lately nominated for 3 Emmys together with Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama for Witherspoon, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama for Crudup, and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama for Harden. Crudup received an Emmy in 2020.
This marks Beharie’s first sequence common function since her starring flip in Fox’s Sleepy Hollow. She performs a lead within the Sundance breakout Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul, which is being launched Sept. 2. Before that, she starred in Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Miss Juneteenth. In TV, Beharie most lately appeared in Amazon’s anthology sequence Solos and the HBO restricted sequence Scenes From a Marriage reverse Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain. She’ll subsequent be seen starring reverse John Boyega and Michael Ok. Williams in Breaking, which acquired the Special Jury Award at this yr’s Sundance Film Festival. Beharie is repped by WME and legal professional John Meigs.
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