Nicole Beharie Joins The Morning Show
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In what marks her most high-profile TV gig since leaving Fox’s Sleepy Hollow in 2016, Beharie has joined the Season 3 cast of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, opposite Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
Beharie will play Christina Hunter, “a grounded, competitive, and charismatic millennial who is a new anchor on The Morning Show,” according to the official character breakdown. “Christina works hard, plays hard, and navigates the Teacup* with good-humored irreverence.”
* The Teacup, according to November 2019 article in Architectural Digest, is the name of the show-within-a-show’s plexiglass anchor desk.
She joins a star-studded ensemble that includes the above-mentioned Aniston and Witherspoon, as well as Billy Crudup, Julianna Margulies and fellow Morning Show newcomer Jon Hamm.
As previously reported, Charlotte Stoudt (Homeland, Fosse/Verdon) will take over as showrunner, replacing Kerry Ehrin in the role.
Beharie’s breakout role came in 2013, when she was cast as leftenant Abbie Mills in Fox’s Sleepy Hollow. She departed the supernatural procedural at the end of Season 3, at which point the series underwent a soft reboot ahead of its fourth (and final) season.
Following her Sleepy Hollow departure, Beharie headlined the critically acclaimed film Miss Juneteenth. On the small screen, she has appeared in episodes of Black Mirror, Little Fires Everywhere, Monsterland, Scenes From a Marriage and Solos. She’ll next be seen opposite Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown in the movie Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, which begins streaming Friday, Sept. 2 on Peacock.
Thoughts on The Morning Show‘s newest hire? Drop ’em in a comment below.
Yes!!
Fantastic 👏 👏 I don’t watch The Morning Show but I’m more than willing to check it out for her! I will *never* understand why they sidelined her character in Sleepy Hollow. It was enough to make me stop watching regularly (and then completely when she left).
I second every word of this comment!
Racist producers behind the scenes that just wanted Tom Mison/Ichabod to be the only star of the show. I also remember Abbie’s sister Jenny, receiving better treatment, but one can only conclude it was because the actress was of mixed race and therefore deemed “better.”
Was never interested in The Morning Show, but will of course be checking out now for Nicole. She’s been overdue for this kind of exposure on a project with big names like these.
So the producers were racist to cast so many black people and THEN were petty enough to ruin them? Give me a break…
Racist…well she left primarily because she found she had autoimmune disease & she was out a lot. She said they also thought non-white actors were dispensible. But Jennifer Esposito went through the same scenario on Blue Bloods due to autoimmune. Maybe , just maybe it was a matter of a-holes that didn’t care about they were fighting something new to their systems that left them on leave for too long a period for writers, producers, other actors….Race may not have been the issue as much as them being the woman, partnered with the male lead. Unfortunately THAT is an all too common scenario.
See, now… I will watch her in anything. So Imma hafta re-up my Apple subscription.
I loved sleepy hollow s1-2, Season 3 was so/so I didn’t watch season 4 because of what happened at the end of season 3. Nicole is a gem and I already watch the morning show so this is a win win.
I loved the Sleepy Hollow series *so* much early on, but it simply wasn’t nearly as good after “leftenant” Nicole departed
Nicole should be one of the most-sought actresses in Hollywood. I sampled Sleepy Hollow and she was so fantastic I stayed around. Even in a minor role in Little Fires Everywhere she beamed. Happy for her.
Guess who will be watching The Morning Show now? lol
I am glad that she’s back on a regular TV Series. She’s a fantastic actor and her role on Sleepy Hallow was groundbreaking.
I am so Happy for her I love everything that she does, especially, Sleepy Hollow,I stop watching it after she left, Now I will have to start watching “The Morning Show”, a show that I have never been interested in watching,, because I know that she will be Great it