Former co-anchors Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) reunite within the fourth season of this information drama that’s as sharp and shiny as Alex’s five-inch designer pumps. “It’s a bit of tense between us to start with,” Witherspoon tells TV Insider in a video interview. “[Bradley] finds a method again onto the community, however Alex isn’t comfortable about it.”
The ten episodes of The Morning Present Season 4 are set within the spring of 2024, two years after the turbulent occasions of the third season finale. Alex drove a merger that created UBA-NBN and is a stressed-out exec. Bradley, who struck a cope with the FBI to remain out of jail, returns chasing a narrative — a narrative that may forestall Alex from protecting the studio lights on.
One of many season’s plots dives right into a present concern of real-world journalists and the individuals who depend on them: deepfakes created by synthetic intelligence. Aniston and Witherspoon chilly relate to the problem firsthand. Like many A-list celebs, their likenesses have been digitally manipulated.
“It’s alarming to expertise as us, the actors, and alarming to Alex, the character, clearly, however that is the world we reside in now.” Aniston says.
“We’ve identified it was coming but we’re nonetheless completely unprepared,” Witherspoon says. “I keep in mind I used to be on a stroll with Nicole Kidman through the actors’ strike, and we have been identical to, ‘What are we going to do?’ There’s deepfakes all over the place and we nonetheless don’t have a solution. It’s unsettling.”
“These are followers we’ve developed a belief with. It’s simply actually alarming. It’s like a runaway practice,” Aniston tells us. “It’s arduous to manage it or include it. It’s larger than all of us.”
Watch the video above for extra from the celebs on the deep pretend concern; new stars becoming a member of the collection together with Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons, and the way Alex and Bradley simply can’t appear to get away the boys of their pasts, billionaire Paul Marks (Jon Hamm) and former information division president Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup).
The Morning Present, Season 4 Premiere, Wednesday, September 17, Apple TV+