Karen Pittman of 'The Morning Show' chats with THR at the BAFTA Tea Party and shares how she'd like to guest star on 'Abbott Elementary' and gushes over 'Baby Reindeer.' She also revealed what her first job in Hollywood was and who was the last co-star she texted.
00:00Hi, Karen. We spoke to you last night at the THR nominee's party. How was it? Did you have the time of your life?
00:05Oh, my God. I danced. I had fun. I took pictures, which are on my IG right now.
00:16That house was amazing. I mean, I met all the reporters that I see on the roundtable,
00:24on the actor roundtable, on the director roundtable, that I really admire, who's so smart and asked so many good questions.
00:30And in general, I had a good time. It was our first party of the Emmy weekend.
00:37And so it was great. It was fun. It was great to celebrate.
00:40Yeah, well, I saw you tearing it up on the dance floor.
00:43Oh, my God.
00:44But now we're being very demure. It's a tea party.
00:47Very demure. As you can see, I'm dressed in my most demure outfit.
00:52I love the bow.
00:53Yes, the bow. Last night I was in red. Today I'm quite demure.
00:57I love it. So since this is a tea party, I wanted to ask if you can spill the tea on a few things for me.
01:02Okay, let's spill it.
01:03Okay, so let's spill the tea on the best thing you've seen on TV this year.
01:08Well, that's probably Jessica Gunning, who's standing right over there talking to somebody in Baby Reindeer.
01:14I thought she was extraordinary. I'd never seen her before, whoever the casting director is for that show.
01:18I need to know them. They're amazing. I thought that was one of my favorite shows.
01:23Of all time.
01:24So I'm spilling the tea on how great Jessica Gunning is.
01:27Yeah.
01:28I love that. I love that.
01:29Who was the last person from the morning show that you texted, and what was it about?
01:33I texted Greta Lee going into this big weekend, wanted to see how she was, and I sent a picture to Mark Duplass from pictures we took last night.
01:49He's so fun and so great, and I saw him and his wife Katie last night, so it's fun. Great time, yeah.
01:57The next show that you would love to guest star on?
02:00Abbott Elementary. Abbott. I think Quinta Brunson is so smart and so fun and so gorgeous, and I love that show, and I would really love to guest on that show at some point.
02:13Did you talk to her last night? Did we pitch that out there?
02:16Oh, yeah. I definitely talked to her about it. I definitely pitched it. I've been pitching it for a year now.
02:20She's got this cute little new haircut. She's just adorable. She already looks about 20. Now she looks 15.
02:27So, yeah, she's so cute and great and just really a powerhouse of a showrunner, writer, actress. Just love her. I would love to work with her at some point.
02:39And finally, the first job you had in Hollywood.
02:42What was the first job I had? Here, where I went to set one day?
02:53In Hollywood? That may have been the first job I got in Los Angeles, but the first. Oh, no.
03:01The first job I got was on a show. Oh, my gosh. What's her name?
03:08Who's Rosanna Arquette's sister?
03:17Patricia Arquette's television show many, many, many years ago, and I was pregnant with my daughter.
03:27And I was like maybe very early in my pregnancy, maybe like six, seven weeks.
03:32But I got in this job, and I was so excited. It was one of my first few jobs in L.A.,
03:35and I was so, so tired, and I was standing all day, and Patricia came up to me and said,
03:42Hi, how are you doing? Because I was looking like a little, you know.
03:44She said, Hi, how are you doing? Are you all right? What's going on?
03:47And I was like, little known secret, I'm pregnant, and I've been on my feet all day.
03:51And she was like, Somebody, somebody, come over here and give her a chair.
03:55She was so kind, so sweet, so mothering, because she knew exactly what it was like.
04:00You know, that was back in 2008. Yeah, yeah, when I was pregnant with my daughter.
04:05So that was my first job, you know.
04:08And here we are now, right?
04:10Here we are! Isn't that crazy? Oh my gosh. Anyway, yeah.
04:14Well, congratulations again on everything, and enjoy. Grab some tea, right?
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