How Martin Short Channeled a #MeToo Monster on ‘The Morning Show’
The first time we meet Martin Short’s character on The Morning Show, he’s playing a spry game of tennis with Steve Carell’s disgraced TV anchor Mitch Kessler. When the two men sit down together for a post-match drink, we quickly learn that they share a unique bond. Short’s Dick Lundy is also a recently exposed #MeToo predator.
The role, which just earned Short his 18th career Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, represented a rare opportunity for him to show off a darker, more menacing side to his far more familiar comedic persona.
“I’ve never been in a situation of saying, ‘Hmm, so Scorsese wants me to star in his movie, but so does Coppola,” he tells me on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “Never happened.’”