Hasan Minhaj; Jennifer Aniston.Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images; Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Minhaj, 36, stars as Eric Nomani, Bradley’s (Reese Witherspoon) newMorning Showco-host, who has been tapped to replace Alex Levy (Aniston). The comedian toldE! Newsthat Aniston, 52, is “such a good actress” that after filming an especially “intense” scene with her, he questioned if she even liked him.
“It was the second day I was on set, and I had to do this really intense scene where Eric and Alex Levy go head-to-head, and Alex does not like Eric and it was really, really intense,” Minhaj said. “While we were filming the scene, she’s such a good actress, there was part of me that was like, ‘Does Rachel fromFriendsnot like me?!'”
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Luckily for Minhaj, Aniston assured him that all was “fine” when the scene wrapped.
“And then as soon as they hit cut, she was like, ‘Honey, you were great. You did awesome,'” Minhaj recalled toE! News. “And I was like, ‘Oh, thank god. But we’re good right?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’re fine.'”
Minhaj has previously appeared in Netflix’sSneakerheadsand worked as a correspondent onThe Daily Showin addition to hosting his own series,Patriot Act.
He toldE!that he loved working onThe Morning Showbecause “it tells the human story of all these hot-button issues that we’ve been talking about in this country for the past few years, adding, “The show is a master class in navigating the grays, whether it’s gender and power dynamics in the workplace, cancel culture or race relations in America.”
The Morning Show, which first premiered in 2019, returned for a second season earlier this month.Season 2 of the hit drama also starsSteve Carell,Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman,Bel Powley, Desean Terry, Janina Gavankar, Tom Irwin andMarcia Gay Harden, as well as newcomers Greta Lee, Ruairi O’Connor,Holland Taylor, Tara Karsian, Valeria Golino andJulianna Margulies.
source: people.com
