As soon as upon a time, Jennifer Morrison starred in a film with Allison Janney.
The pair appeared within the 2017 crime drama “Sun Dogs,” and now, the director, 46, would like to work with the “Mom” alum, 65, as soon as once more.
This time round, Morrison is serious about becoming a member of Janney’s hit Netflix thriller “The Diplomat.” The sequence’ third season is about to air this fall and follows Keri Russell as a diplomat that turns into the ambassador to the UK. Janney performs Vice President Grace Penn.
“I just love her so much,” Morrison completely informed The Submit about Janney on the 2025 Astra Awards on Tuesday.
“I mean, the truth is I just want to be on ‘The Diplomat’ with her. I would do anything to be on ‘The Diplomat.’”
“I don’t care how. I’ll direct. I’ll act. I’ll do both. I’ll do whatever they want me to do,” she added. “I love that show. It’s so good.”
Together with being a professional in entrance of the digicam, Morrison has been behind the lens as of late. She lately directed the fourth episode of “Yellowjackets” Season 3, titled “12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis,” and Episode 7, titled “Croak.”
The Showtime Season 3 venture stars Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Hilary Swank and extra. Your entire expertise was nothing in need of magical for Morrison.
“It was incredible. I loved the show from the start,” the “Big Stan” star gushed. “I’ve been a fan. The fact I even had a shot at meeting with them and working on the show was a dream come true. That cast is incredible. The showrunners are incredible. Every episode kind of feels like its own film.”
“There’s something different and loaded going on in every single episode, so as a filmmaker, it’s also very exciting,” she continued. “You’re going to get to stretch and spread your wings a little bit. It was just incredible.”
Morrison additionally would like to direct “Barbie” star Margot Robbie sooner or later.
In February, Morrison spoke to The Submit about how directing “Yellowjackets” took place.
“As they were going into Season 3, they had some slots open up and were willing to meet with some new directors,” she defined. “I had a meeting with [producer] Drew [Comins] and his company, and he saw my passion for the show and saw that I was no joke into it. After all of that, I think we all felt aligned and on the same page.”
That’s when Morrison started speaking about engaged on her first episode.
“At that point, they had asked me to come and do Episode 4, and then sort of in the midst of four, they hadn’t quite settled the rest of their season yet. So, as I finished four, they asked if I would also do seven. So then I kind of turned right back around and came and did seven.”
Episode 4 adopted the aircraft crash survivors placing Coach Ben (Steven Krueger) on trial for kidnapping Mari (Alexa Barajas) and burning down their cabin.
Concurrently, within the current day, Lottie (Simone Kessell) is then murdered.
Throughout Episode 7, “the Yellowjackets face the consequences of their actions. Misty pursues a new suspect and encounters an unexpected turn. Taissa’s growing desperation reveals hidden aspects of herself,” per the IMDb synopsis.
Directing two completely different timelines without delay was a thrill for Morrison.
“The two worlds are so aesthetically different. And it’s very different dealing with veteran adult actors who’ve been in this industry for 30 years for some of them. And then these younger kids, who now feel like veterans after three years of doing this show but are definitely newer to the scene. But I guess aesthetically, it did feel like two different shows,” she recalled. “But because the writing is just so rich in terms of the character study of it all, you feel like it all arcs together in such a beautiful way.”
“So, even though you might feel that tug of the two different visuals, there’s just such an emotional throughline that made it feel much more continuous to me.”
For Morrison, she was capable of deliver her imaginative and prescient to life with each the younger stars and grownup actors.
“I think the bottom line in this show comes down to the richness of the writing and all the character development that’s there and the nuance of that. But also their incredible ability with casting,” she mused. “They have picked such specific and interesting people, and they bring things to these characters that no one else could bring. So [working] with that group of women was just intoxicating.”
Every time the actors stepped in entrance of the digicam, it added an entire new layer to the scene.
“It was so exciting,” Morrison famous to The Submit. “Every take has so much life to it. And they bring something new to every single moment. You can look at something on the page and imagine how it’s going to come to life. And then they do it.”
“It’s even better than I imagined. So I think the biggest thing in the adult storyline was really just the excitement of watching these incredible veterans just breathe life into these characters in such a specific way.”
