Mimi Leder on The Morning Show and The Leftovers Series Finale

Mimi Leder on The Morning Show and The Leftovers Series Finale

With the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show now streaming in over 100 countries and regions around the world, I recently sat down with director Mimi Leder for an exclusive interview. If you’re not familiar with The Morning Show, the series is inspired by journalist Brian Stelter’s book, Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV and stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell. As the series begins, Aniston and Carell are the hosts of the number one morning news program (think Good Morning America or the Today show) titled The Morning Show. But almost immediately, Carell’s character is fired for sexual misconduct in the workplace and the first two episodes deal with the repercussions of his actions and how Witherspoon’s character enters the picture. The series is incredibly timely to what’s been happening in the real world. The Morning Show is written and executive produced by Kerry Ehrin (who also serves as showrunner) and also stars Mark Duplass, Billy Crudup, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Desean Terry, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bel Powley, and Janina Gavankar.

During the interview, Mimi Leder talked about what she learned about the making of The Morning Show as the series was being filmed, if they had a lot of deleted scenes, if the show changed in the editing room, what it’s like making a show that has a two-season pickup, and what she thinks happened in The Leftovers series finale.

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