After two seasons of confrontation and romance with the two main characters, Julianna Margulies is departing Morning program. Based on DiversityThe Emmy winner was offered an episode appearance in the upcoming fourth season, which she declined, although their sources also say that Margulies has been asked about her interest in returning for a potential fifth season. power. Vanity fair has reached out to series representatives and Margulies for comment.
Season two of the AppleTV+ drama introduced Margulies as veteran news anchor Laura Peterson, who becomes a professional rival of Jennifer AnistonAlex Levy’s and favorites Reese Witherspoonby Bradley Jackson. Although Laura and Bradley broke up early the show’s third seasonup to date third season finaleAlex proposed a cost-cutting merger between UBA and MBN, the network anchored by Margulies’ character—ostensibly creating a plot that put Laura at the center of the action.
Based on DiversityAccording to sources, Margulies’ exit was planned in advance Controversy surrounding comments she did on a podcast last year. Actor apologizes after saying lesbians who don’t stand with Israel were “offensive” [her] as a lesbian” since she played a game on morning show, and that Black people who did not side with Jews after the Hamas attacks were “brainwashed to hate Jews.” Margulies said in a statement that she “did not intend for my words to sow further division, for which I sincerely apologize.”
News of Margulies’ passing comes a week after news of the Oscar winner broke Marion Cotillard has joined the cast including Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Karen Pittman, Greta Lee, Nestor Carbonell, Jon HammAnd Nicole Beharie.
Back in 2021, after the first season with the Margulies show speak Vanity fair: “I have received some really interesting offers since The good Wife, and I was struggling with, Can I do a network show again? The answer I finally figured out, especially after doing morning show, is not. I feel like I invested my time in it.” “I think you can do 10 good episodes of a show,” she concluded. I don’t think you can make 23 good episodes of a show. . .I never want to be in that position again.”
