Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon BOTH score nominations for The Morning Show - as they go head-to-head in fiercely competitive category

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Longtime close friends Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon will be going head-to-head in September.

The Hollywood A-list actress were both nominated for Emmy Awards on Wednesday morning for their Apple TV+ series The Morning Show.

And the blonde beauties are in the same category: Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series.

Jennifer, 55, plays Alex Levy while Reese, 48, stars as Bradley Jackson on the show about the culture behind a network broadcast morning news program.

Also in the category are Carrie Coon for The Gilded Age, Maya Erskine for Mr & Mrs Smith, Ana Sawai for Shogun and Imelda Staunton for The Crown.

It is a fiercely competitive category as all of the nominees are critically acclaimed and are on hit shows.

Longtime close friends Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon will be going head-to-head in September. The Hollywood A-list actress were both nominated for Emmy Awards on Wednesday morning for their Apple TV+ series The Morning Show

Jennifer, 55, plays Alex Levy while Reese, 48, stars as Bradley Jackson on the show about the characters and culture behind a network broadcast morning news program 

The ladies have been nominated for Emmys many times in the past.

Jennifer was nominated in the same category for the same show in 2020. She won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022 for playing Rachel Green on Friends.

Rese was nominated in the same category for The Morning Show in 2022. She won an Emmy for producing Big Little Lies in 2017.

The 2024 Emmy nominations for The Morning Show also include Best Drama Series, four women in the Best Supporting Actress category (Nicole Beharie, Greta Lee, Karen Pittman and Holland Taylor), two Best Supporting Actor nods (Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass), a Best Guest Actress nomination (Marcia Gay Harden), and Best Directing (Mimi Leder).

The Morning Show is now filming its fourth season in Los Angeles.

On July 8, Aniston alerted her Instagram followers she was back at work. She, Reese and Tig Notaro were on the set of season four of The Morning Show.

'Let @themorningshow season 4 games begin, Here we come!' wrote Aniston as she added two red heart emojis. Tig plays Amanda Robinson.

It has been reported that Julianna Margulies will not return to the Morning Show but Jon Hamm is. Jeremy Irons has also reportedly been added to the cast.

Meanwhile, Jennifer said in June that Reese is like a sister.

'We have a real interesting relationship. It's like we're family for sure,' Aniston told the audience at the panel discussion which included her The Morning Show co-stars Karen Pittman, Notaro, Billy Crudup, Jon Hamm, Mark Duplass, and Nestor Carbonell.

Witherspoon was unable to attend the event. 

'We love to hate each other, and we love to love each other, and I think that's sort of a really fun dynamic that Reese and I get to play,' the Emmy winner said of her character Levy and Witherspoon's Jackson. 

Aniston, Reese and Tig Notaro were on the set of season four of their hit Apple TV+ series The Morning Show on July 8

The pals and co-stars first met in 2000, when Witherspoon had a guest spot in two episodes of Friends playing Rachel's little sister Jill. 'She was just so effortlessly affable, bubbly, and sunny. We’ve been friends ever since,' Witherspoon told Harper's Bazaar in 2019

'And, of course, we would like to be together forever, I would think. I hope, but ... we really don't know what's going to happen.'

Aniston and Witherspoon have been enjoying a family-style relationship since 2000, when Witherspoon, then an up-and-coming actress, played Rachel Green's little sister Jill on two episodes of Friends.

'We met on the set of Friends,' Witherspoon told Harper's Bazaar in 2019.

'I played her sister. I was 23 years old and had just had a baby. I was nursing Ava on set, and Jen just kept going, "You have a baby?" I was like, "I know, it’s weird,"' she said.

The versatile actress and producer said Aniston 'was so sweet to me. I was really nervous, and she was like, "Oh, my gosh—don’t worry about it!" I marveled at her ability to perform in front of a live audience like that with no nerves.

'They would change all the lines and she was just so effortlessly affable, bubbly, and sunny. We’ve been friends ever since.'

Karen Pittman, Tig Notaro, Billy Crudup, Jon Hamm, Mark Duplass and Nestor Carbonell took part in the panel with Aniston. Witherspoon was unable to attend 

Where their on-screen friendship will take them in season four of The Morning Show is anyone's guess.

Alex was dealing with her betrayal of on-screen boyfriend Paul Marks, played by Hamm, who wanted to buy UBA and sell off pieces of the network.

Bradley and her brother, Hal, were off to talk to the FBI about their roles in the January 6 insurrection. 

'I think the big question this year is, who and what can you trust?' said showrunner Charlotte Stoudt.

'Can you trust your co-workers? Can you trust your own eyes? Can you trust what you see in a world of AI and defects? It's a tricky world,' she explained.

'I mean, just look at the headlines. We just take it from the headlines. Honestly, because that's our inspiration. It's the real life.'