Karen Pittman on ‘The Morning Show’ Challenges Ahead, Her ‘Heartbreaking’ Goodbye to ‘And Just Like That’ and TV’s Power to Foster ‘True Inclusivity’
variety.comAngelique Jackson When Karen Pittman calls for our early-morning interview, she’s noticeably perky for someone who wrapped filming at 2 a.m.
the night before. She’s in the midst of shooting “Forever,” Mara Brock Akil’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s seminal — and controversial — 1975 novel about two teens’ first love and intimacy. “I love it!
Fingers crossed it keeps going like this for the next 20 to 30 years,” Pittman says, laughing off the tiring schedule. “I’m not a workaholic, but I’m just very committed.
I’m devoted to this work. I get the chance to tell a meaningful story about where women are right now.” In the Netflix series, Pittman plays Dawn Edwards, an upper-middle-class mother whose high-school-age son Justin (Michael Cooper Jr.) is at the center of the show’s “forever love” story. “She is a working mother in a successful marriage.
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