Jennifer Aniston Says She Relates To Her ‘The Morning Show’ Character

Jennifer Aniston says that her character Alex Levy on The Morning Show is one that she can certainly relate to on many levels. Here’s what she has to say.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times in a new interview, the actress opened up about her character, who is a female anchor of a morning talk show that has to fight for her position. Jennifer says that seeing her character’s struggles forced her to assert herself to maintain a strong public image despite the fact that she works in an industry in which she is constantly undermined.

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Jennifer Aniston Says She Relates To Her ‘The Morning Show’ Character

“That show was 20 years of therapy wrapped into 10 episodes,” Aniston, 51, told the outlet. “There were times when I would read a scene and feel like a whole manhole cover was taken off my back.”

Jennifer Aniston also explained that reading her script felt therapeutic at times. That’s because many women of her generation are finally speaking up for themselves about things like gender discrimination and sexual misconduct that usually happens behind closed doors in the entertainment world.

“Cathartic, yes, and also interesting for me to look at how I always have tried to normalize being fine and ‘everything’s great, you know, this is all normal,’ and then there are moments when you have your private breakdown or your ‘Calgon, take me away’ moments,” Aniston explained. “To actually look at it from an actor brain observing it and acknowledging it, I had to look at it as opposed to pretending it doesn’t exist.”

“There have been moments — not to that level of hysteria — but moments of ‘I don’t want to f—ing go here,’ ‘I don’t want to walk out onto the carpet,’ ‘I don’t want to be seen,’ ‘I don’t want to be looked at and everyone’s going to be talking about me and judging me’ … that’s real,” Aniston said. “I just loved being able to walk into it and lean into it and not be ashamed of it.”

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