The Morning Show star Reese Witherspoon reveals what she finds hard in playing her character from the show

The Morning Show (Image via Youtube/@Apple TV)
The Morning Show (Image via Youtube/@Apple TV)

Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show premiered on November 1, 2019. The series explores a high stakes morning news program and the messy power dynamics behind it.

One of the main characters on the show is Bradley Jackson, played by Reese Witherspoon. Bradley is a truth seeking journalist who rises to co-anchor and challenges the establishment.

In an interview with THR, Reese Witherspoon, famed for The Morning Show, revealed that portraying Bradley Jackson's passionate personality necessitates precise control over tone and emotion. Born in 1976, she earned an Oscar for Walk the Line and now runs Hello Sunshine, which creates successful TV series while simultaneously helping women's and children's charities.


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Recently, Reese Witherspoon has shared some insights about her show The Morning Show in an interview with THR. She claims that Bradley Jackson's forceful, frank, and suspicious personality qualities are not typically seen in real life.

To successfully transition into that more aggressive temperament, one must pay great attention to their tone, purpose, and ability to control their emotions. While her default mode is to want to put people at ease, she has seen that Bradley is more prone to getting into conflicts.

An arduous aspect of the task is adjusting that disparity scene by scene. She strives to accurately portray the ethical pressures, short turnaround times, and relentless pace of breaking news that anchors face on TV as a result of her experience playing a professional journalist.

The talented American actress and producer Reese Witherspoon was born in New Orleans on March 22, 1976. She won an Academy Award for Walk the Line and rose to fame with roles in Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama.

After experiencing some career setbacks, she made a huge return with Wild and shifted her focus to television, producing and starring in popular series like The Morning Show and Big Little Lies under her Hello Sunshine company.

In addition, Reese is an entrepreneur who owns Draper James and Reese's Book Club. She regularly advocates for women's and children's problems through a number of organizations.


More about The Morning Show

The Morning Show is about people who work in a newspaper. It takes place during a nationwide morning show on the made-up UBA network. The story begins with a crisis that throws the on-air crew and the senior ranks into chaos. It then follows how journalists, producers, and business leaders deal with the pressures of duty, loyalty, telling the truth, and staying alive while being watched by the public.

The show looks into topics that are important right now, like power differences at work, the culture of the workplace, trust in the media, political division, false information, and how real-time technology changes how people think and feel and Jennifer Aniston plays the experienced anchor Alex Levy, and Reese Witherspoon plays the new co-anchor Bradley Jackson.

Bill Crudup plays the CEO Cory Ellison, who is a creative leader. A lot of stars, like Mark Duplass, Karen Pittman, Greta Lee, and Nicole Beharie, do important roles in the movie. Throughout its seasons, the show has included stories that are based on real events, like business and news cycles that change quickly.

Edited by Sohini Biswas