'IT'S LIKE GIVING BIRTH': JENNIFER ANISTON TALKS ABOUT AN INTENSE SHOOT

With her usual candor, Jennifer Aniston didn't mince words when discussing the difficulty of filming each new season of "The Morning Show." In an interview with Glamour, the American actress, director, and producer even compared the experience to giving birth. No less.

A (very) telling metaphor

For the September 2025 cover of Glamour magazine, Jennifer Aniston sat down for an interview with her co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Beharie, Marion Cotillard, and Karen Pittman. The actress humorously reflects on the physical and mental strain of each new season of "The Morning Show," the hit Apple TV+ series she also produces.

"Every time I finish a season, I'm like, 'OK, I'm dead. It killed me.' And then, a few months later, I've forgotten everything... and I'm starting all over again. It's exactly what my friends say about childbirth: you forget the pain, and suddenly you're pregnant again," she says. And to make the image clear, she adds with a laugh: "It's like pulling a melon out of a tiny little hole... and doing it again."

A series that doesn't spare its cast

"The Morning Show" will premiere its fourth season on September 17 on Apple TV+. This new series will pick up "nearly two years after the events of the previous season," in a context where fake news, polarized information, and media manipulation are central to the story.

Jennifer Aniston stars as Alex Levy, a star journalist facing increasingly complex personal, political, and professional dilemmas. On and off-screen, the series is dense and demanding, tackling weighty themes like systemic inequality, harassment, and misinformation.

An emotional charge not to be underestimated

In the interview, Jennifer Aniston says filming can be challenging in many ways. And after each season, she feels the need to "completely disconnect": "I have to step away for a bit, breathe... and usually, I go and do a comedy as quickly as possible," she says with a laugh. Another reason she keeps coming back season after season is that the show offers her a rare creative freedom, which she fully enjoys as an actress and producer.

A united and ambitious female team

Co-producer of the series with Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston does not hide her pride in being part of a project led by women and anchored in reality. "What I learned with 'The Morning Show' is that women are more than capable of creating an ambitious, demanding series, and of doing it with grace, elegance and kindness."

She also emphasizes the solidarity between actresses, essential in such an intense work environment: "We trust each other. When one of us is filming, the others take care of the production. We know we can count on each other."

An anticipated season 4

Alongside Jennifer Aniston, fans will see Reese Witherspoon, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie, and new faces including Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Aaron Pierre, and William Jackson Harper. This new season promises to be particularly action-packed, with storylines involving the merger of media conglomerates, political stakes, and the manipulation of information in an America more fractured than ever.

With her biting humor and disarming sincerity, Jennifer Aniston once again offers a lucid look behind the scenes of her profession. If filming "The Morning Show" is like giving birth, each season is also a personal, artistic, and collective rebirth. And that's undoubtedly what makes this series so powerful... and so human.

2025-09-04T09:11:38Z