Whereas the writers behind The Morning Present keep that the Apple TV+ drama isn’t based mostly on Matt Lauer’s exit from the Right this moment present, Katie Couric may learn between the traces.
“I've so many ideas,” the 63-year-old former Right this moment anchor instructed Danny Pellegrino on the Monday, April 27, episode of his “All the pieces Iconic” podcast. “I assumed a few of it was actually fascinating and I feel the long-term influence and the intense devastation that outcomes from sure behaviors was fairly properly represented, or fairly properly conveyed in that.”
Jennifer Aniston stars on the sequence as Alex Levy, a longtime morning present anchor whose on-air associate, Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell), is changed by Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) after a sexual misconduct scandal.
“I feel Jennifer Aniston is nice,” Couric continued. “The character or the position, I want they'd made her extra charismatic as a result of I feel you want a sure ebullience to drag off a present like that. I assumed it was actually fascinating to look at.”
Couric cohosted Right this moment alongside Lauer, 62, for 9 years. In November 2017, he was fired from NBC Information after he was accused of sexual misconduct. Lauer, who was later accused of rape by former worker Brooke Nevils, denied all of the allegations in opposition to him.
“[Mitch is] not Matt Lauer,” Morning Present showrunner Kerry Ehrin instructed The Hollywood Reporter in November 2019. “It wasn’t designed to be about him; I didn’t research him. It was a few man who works in morning information who will get fired for sexual misconduct. That did occur to Matt Lauer. It additionally occurred to Charlie Rose and somebody on Fox — it isn’t completely Matt Lauer.”
Couric instructed Pellegrino that she’s writing about “all about all these things” in her upcoming guide.
The journalist additionally famous that she doesn’t tune into Right this moment a lot anymore.
“Probably not. Not an excessive amount of. I take a look at newsletters, I actually get most of my information on my phone,” she defined. “I feel I simply modified the best way I eat my information and knowledge.”
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