Once you see Nicole Beharie, you never forget her. Credit her globe-trotting childhood (her father worked in the United States Foreign Service) or her training at Juilliard and then the University of Oxford on a Shakespeare scholarship, but Beharie brings a knowing realism and raw edge to her many screen performances that from a first encounter will inevitably leave you asking, “Who is that?”
“The Morning Show,” then, would seem a somewhat unlikely arena for the actress to showcase such authenticity. The starry Apple TV+ series is as much a primetime soap as it is prestige viewing: Reese Witherspoon in space! Jennifer Aniston in Italy! Steve Carell … dead! But Beharie, who won Best Actress at the 2021 Gotham Awards for the indie film “Miss Juneteenth” and joined “The Morning Show” in Season 3 as Olympian-turned-news anchor Chris Hunter, said that was part of the appeal.
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