Julianna Marguli weighs on the nversatn happeng about her stg as gay anchor Lra Peterson, on Apple TV+'s 'The Morng Show.'
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JULIANNA MARGULI ON CRICISM AROUND HER PLAYG A GAY ANCHOR ‘THE MORNG SHOW’: “WE’RE ALL MAKG ASSUMPTNS”
Three episos to Season 2 of The Morng Show on Apple TV, and there's already been a surprisg kiss. As viewers are troduced to the openly gay UBA news anchor Lra Peterson (Julianna Marguli), they bee aware of some tensy that seems to spark between her and Bradley as they h the [...] * the morning show is bradley gay *
Alex, who is all-nsumed wh Maggie Brenner’s (Marcia Gay Harn) loomg tell-all and what will reveal about Alex’s role Mch Ksler’s (Steve Carrell) downfall, is neglectg to pick up the femist mantel that she claimed for herself her on-air takedown of UBA. Lra, who reveals that she was fired om the work over beg gay when she hosted the Morng Show back the ’90s, n’t accept Bradley’s unwillgns to embrace her sexual inty now, s of change later. Ehr says she nsired stg a gay actrs the role (“Castg has so many different elements that go to how plays out, and I do very much re about clivy and reprentatn, and I feel like that’s somethg that we all need to work on, ” she says), but was Marguli who brought the prtige that the character required, “the stature of someone who was actually the news in of a work.
As viewers are troduced to the openly gay UBA news anchor Lra Peterson (Julianna Marguli), they bee aware of some tensy that seems to spark between her and Bradley as they h the road to ver the electn. Daniel Henrson, a reporter on The Morng Show and host of The Twist, provis great reprentatn as a Black gay man, but he still remaed a si character for a majory of the first season; though his role seems to be expandg season 2, season, The Morng Show is brgg queer reprentatn and LGBTQ issu ont and center, and Lra is only half of the storyle, wh the other half gog to none other than Bradley Jackson, Ree Wherspoon’s fiery episo 3, Bradley and Lra first h off durg their terview for Lra’s UBA news program as they vered the Iowa uc.
Lra tells Bradley that she was fired om YDA for beg gay and that she’s angry that the younger woman won’t walk down the path she feels that she paved for argument is, hontly, very sound. The tth is, Bradley is the one makg hard on herself, but that’s what ternalized homophobia do. That nservative upbrgg, and the assumedly homophobic beliefs imbedd her as a child, ed her to hate the part of herself that’s queer, and she hasn’t e to terms wh jt yet, pecially not enough to e out on natnal televisn.
When asked if she had any rervatns about playg gay on the Apple TV seri, Marguli rpond, "Who's to say I haven't had my own gay experienc?" * the morning show is bradley gay *
Y, we live a much more acceptg and open world than we did ten or twenty years ago, but vlence agast queer people still persists, homophobic remarks still get ma, and people are still sred of what g out will do to their liv.
There are still people beg undated wh homophobic beliefs om the time they’re young, and those feelgs don’t jt go away. Bradley went to Gayle about a segment Mia wanted her to do on Nutrn the New Year.
Bradley didn't want to do , but Gayle advised her to pick her battl as ratgs were down.