'I'M MORE AMBITIOUS THAN HER'

Karen Pittman on playing Mia Jordan in The Morning Show and how to create a happy blended family

- SOPHIE HAMILTON

For the American actress Karen Pittman, working alongside Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon on the hit Apple TV+ series The Morning Show for the past seven years has been a dream come true.

"They're such involved and thoughtful women," Karen tells HELLO! when we meet the actress for an exclusive interview in her luxurious suite at London's Ham Yard Hotel.

"They are thoughtful about the directors and the crew they bring in, and the other actors they bring in. Jeremy Irons, Marion Cotillard, Aaron Pierre and Clive Standen, who plays my love interest on the show - they're just great."

The star - whose character, the TV producer Mia Jordan, gets a "glow up" in the current series - welcomes us warmly to her suite on a grey, drizzly English day, which Karen says she adores.

A fifth series of the award-winning show has just been announced when we meet, and Karen is thrilled that series four is now airing. She says that her character, Mia, "has been holding it down for women and the company for three seasons", through plot strands including a sexual misconduct scandal, Covid-19 and a network merger.

"This season she wants to become head of the news division, so we track her journey up that mountain and see what happens when she gets to the top. Mia becomes an army of one - she's more ruthless."

Like her character, Nashville-raised Karen is ambitious. "I'm probably more ambitious than her," she says, adding that her strategy is a little different - "but as far as aiming to find common ground with people, that's definitely me".