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Jennifer Aniston is opening up about the work that goes into The Morning Show and the feeling she gets when she wraps each season.
The Emmy winner, 56, revealed in Glamour’s September 2025 cover story — featuring herself alongside her Morning Show costars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Beharie, Marion Cotillard and Karen Pittman — that she compares her seasonal return to the series “to what childbirth must be like.”
“Every year since I finished the first season, I was like, Well, that’s it — I’m dead. That just killed me,” Aniston told the outlet in an interview published on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
As Aniston puts it, after working hard all season acting as anchor Alex Levy, “you forget” before filming kicks off again.
“I kind of compare it to what childbirth must be like when my friends are like, ‘You just kind of forget what it was, and then next thing you know you’re knocked up again,'” Aniston joked.
“And having that same agony of pushing that watermelon out of a tiny little pinhole and then you just get to do it again. So I do feel there’s something extraordinary about finishing a season and not saying those words of, ‘I’m done,'” Aniston added.
“And just knowing that you’ve got to decompress and walk away from it for a while, and in my case, go do a comedy as fast as possible.”
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Season 4 of the hit Apple TV+ series premieres in mid-September and takes place “almost two years after the events of season three,” per a synopsis. The new season arrives nearly five years after the Emmy-winning series debuted in November 2019.
Speaking with PEOPLE back in January, Aniston called the forthcoming season “so hard” to film. “It’s jam-packed, that’s for sure,” she said at the time
“With the UBA-NBN merger complete, the newsroom must grapple with newfound responsibility, hidden motives and the elusive nature of truth in a polarized America,” the synopsis reads. “In a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories and corporate cover-ups — who can you trust? And how can you know what’s actually real?”
With Witherspoon also returning as Bradley Jackson, Pittman coming back as Mia Jordan and Beharie returning as Christina Hunter, the series will also feature new players including Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper and Boyd Holbrook. Additional Morning Show stars include Billy Crudup and Jon Hamm.
As for the lessons she’s taken away from her work on The Morning Show, Aniston told Glamour that she loves producing and ultimately “creating something that’s really high quality.” Both Aniston and Witherspoon serve as executive producers on the series, created by Jay Carson.
“[I’ve learned] that women are beyond capable to make great television and produce a show with elegance and grace and kindness to one another,” she said. “And we trust one another. When one of us has to work and put ourselves in front of the camera, you trust the others are going to pick up the ball and take care of the other end of it.”
“I’ve also learned that there are places I can go in my creative self that I probably didn’t know that I could, that have allowed me that challenge to push my limits,” Aniston added.
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Season 4 of The Morning Show premieres on Wednesday, Sept. 17 on Apple TV+ with the first episode, followed by one episode dropping every Wednesday through Nov. 19.
