Mimi Leder on the TV Series, The Morning Show

Learning to honor both your experience and your gut instinct

Matt here. Welcome back to Origin Stories. Our guest is Mimi Leder, a producer, director, and two-time Emmy winner. Among her credits are films like Deep Impact and On the Basis of Sex and television programs like The Morning Show, a critically-acclaimed drama now entering its fourth season on Apple TV.

I jumped at the chance to interview Mimi because of The Morning Show, which I consider to be a wildly sharp depiction of the modern media landscape. But also because I'm inspired by the arc of Mimi's career and her ability to transition ably between feature film and prestige TV. No easy feat!

We talk about establishing the tone of The Morning Show, the importance of creative synergy with actors and staff, and learning to honor both her experience and her gut instinct.

“It’s really a process,” Mimi says, “because something that may work on set doesn't always work editorially. Or maybe a sequence becomes something completely different than what you imagined it to be. It's very interesting:

“You make a movie three times. You write it, you direct it, and then you edit it. And you're remaking it every single time.”

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Thanks,

Matt