The primary-class forged of The Morning Present simply added one other massive title to its ranks.
Per Selection, Julianna Margulies is becoming a member of the forged of The Morning Present Season 2.
She is ready to play UBA Information’ latest addition, Laura Peterson.
Margulies joins returning stars Jennifer Anniston and Reese Witherspoon, in addition to Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Bel Powley, Karen Puttman, and Desean Terry.
The second season of the Apple TV+ drama may also welcome visitor stars, together with Greta Lee, Ruairi O’Connor, and Hasan Minhaj.
Margulies is greatest identified for her function as Alicia Florrick on The Good Spouse, a job she performed in all seven seasons, and gained awards for.
Earlier than that, she starred on the NBC medical juggernaut, ER.
The actress stays in demand following The Good Spouse, and has appeared on AMC’s Dietland, Nat Geo’s The Sizzling Zone, and Showtime’s Billions since leaving the CBS drama behind.
There was phrase for some time that Margulies would carry Alicia again in an episode of The Good Spouse spinoff The Good Battle, however the actress has opened up about CBS not eager to pay the price for her look.
“I’m not a visitor star; I began the entire thing with The Good Spouse,” Margulies informed Deadline.
“I needed to be paid my value and rise up for equal pay. If Jon Hamm got here again for a Mad Males spinoff or Kiefer Sutherland needed to do a 24 spinoff, they’d be paid.”
“We love Julianna and there’s an extended, nice historical past [with her]. We did wish to carry her to visitor on The Good Battle,” mentioned a CBS All Entry rep on the time.
“There was a distinct [financial] expectation of what that meant, and it didn’t work out… It was only a deal that didn’t work out. I gained’t go into the monetary specifics of that.”
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