Keeping up with Karen Pittman has been a tall order in June.
The actress, one of the stars of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show who recently starred on Forever on Netflix, spent a big chunk of the month in Europe where she attended back-to-back film festivals with Filming Italy Sardegna followed by a pit stop in Malta for the Mediterrane Film Festival’s closing night Golden Bee Awards.
It was on the latter’s blue carpet where Pittman offered The Hollywood Reporter a few minutes of her time before she headed inside to the black-tie gala at which she presented a trophy alongside Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier. “It’s amazing. It’s beautiful,” she said of her first impressions of Malta. “It’s an extraordinary island. The weather, the sights, the architecture, everything. But what I love most about Malta is the people — warm, inviting, welcoming. I would love to come back here and film something. As an artist, you want to be in a community and in an environment that is just like this.”
Though she’s been doing a bit of globe-trotting, Pittman said she’s always keeping an eye on what’s happening in America, especially as one of the stars of a show centering on the news.
“Coming to Europe has been this extraordinary experience because they don’t look at news the way that American television news looks at news,” explained Pittman, who acknowledged the “difficult” and “turbulent” landscape of American politics. “I stay tuned in on behalf of the work that I do on The Morning Show. I also think it’s important as an artist to be in the know. I look at my acting as activism, and so I know a lot about what roles I want to take and what I want to do next based upon what my own personal politics are, but also what the world is telling me, what’s orbiting us as human beings. It’s really important for me to pay attention.”
Speaking of being alert, The Morning Show will drop a new batch of season four episodes on Sept. 17. “It’s a wild ride,” teased Pittman of the upcoming season in which she reprises her character of Mia Jordan. “We are going to be in New York and Europe in September. We are taking the story much wider, I feel like, than we’ve ever taken it before. I’m so excited to be a part of the story that they’re telling in season four. A lot happens with Mia. She goes for it. A lot happens for a lot of people.”
