It’s always a good awards season when Brangelina comes to play, but this year is going to be extra-special because Jennifer Aniston is also coming to play. And while we can joke about how Jennifer is setting herself up to fail, the truth is… her money, her hustle and her connections are already playing a big part in how her “Oscar chances” are being framed. Like, no one really thinks she’s going to get an Oscar nomination, but Jennifer is being included in all of these conversations. It’s looking like she’ll probably get nominated for a Golden Globe and maybe a Spirit Award. And then she’ll parlay the “buzz” into an Oscar-presenter gig, won’t she? Thus fulfilling the In Touch Weekly prophecy.
One of Aniston’s latest “prestige” promotional moments came from the LA Times. The LAT is doing something new for this year’s Oscar season – they’ve teamed with Epix to do “roundtable” actress and actor discussions. And they included Aniston is a roundtable with Emily Blunt, Shailene Woodley, Jessica Chastain and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The stuff won’t air until December 8th, but CB watched a preview and she sent me this transcript about Aniston’s labor of love (CAKE!).
“I’m always trying to find the great small roles, the stronger more slice of life more complex and I’ve been doing fart jokes for a long time, which I love immensely. So I think it does allow you to sort of take care of business and then you can spend the time with these little labors of love, which I’ve learned sometimes you have to create for yourself.”
[From LAT, Epix via People Now, aired 11-20-14]
Fart jokes?! Aniston is totally moving in on Jennifer Lawrence’s territory. I actually think this is a real possibility – Aniston sees how J-Law is considered the newest (Dorito-fart-covered) America’s Sweetheart and Aniston’s like, “Damn, I need to get in on that.” Because while Jennifer is known for comedy, I really don’t associate her with bathroom humor. She hasn’t done that much of it, really?
Oh, and this week, Aniston did a joint GMA interview with Jason Bateman. Bateman brings out the best in her – they’re funny together (it’s mostly him) but she just seems very loose around him. Also: that hairstyle is awful! It ages her. As does that blouse.
Last thing – Jennifer, Jason Bateman and Dustin Hoffman are all going to be on Graham Norton this weekend. Here in America, we won’t get it on BBC America until next weekend though.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
What is up with Oscars and farting? I mean can somebody tell me what’s the connection? Damn.
BTW I read that quote three times and then my brain just gave up.
Thirsty!
I’m getting Aniston-fatigue. Yes, I know: “don’t click the link if you don’t want to read about her,” blah blah blah. But we’re getting multiple Aniston posts every day it seems like. And it brings all the crazies out.
Hey for a nice break you could just hop on over to a Cumby thread. Cough.
*ducks in* Are there crazies there, too? 🙂
Where he claims his name sounds like a fart or something.
I’m missing my bloke! More Tom Hardy please!
Haha, mimif, you troll. I love you.
Love you too, VG, my analyzer of all things gossip. 😀
“And it brings all the crazies out.”
Shhhhhh! Don’t summon She Who Shall Not Be Named!
is that like Candyman or Beetlejuice…if you say it three times they appear?
Leann? Do you mean Leann? I think you mean Leann.
Oh no! I said it three times, she’s going to appear now!
She’s so pathetic… I shame for her
I always say Dustin Hoffman looks like he could be her father or it might be she looks like Tootsie to me, so it’ll be interesting to see them next to each other.
Your wish is my command. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMhNFv4ubro watch from about 26 minutes
IM NOT GONNA LEAVE THESE POSTS ALONE UNTIL YA’LL ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN HER FACE!!!
OMG WHAT IS THIS ?!?!? How can you look swollen-to-fat in the face lower quadrant only and then skinny and tight everywhere else?!??!
It’s called botox and fillers, and, possibly, hypocrisy, since she’s gone on record shaming women who tweak their faces.
QQ, I didn’t really see it until that GMA video! But yeah, she’s got Botox and fillers. It’s not Nicole Kidman-level, but there are issues.
I’m so confused about her face. In the top photo with Jason Bateman, her face def looks swollen and odd. In the bottom premiere photo though, her face looks normal. I’m so confused.
So basically you’re saying she looks really proportionate?
YES; BUT LOUDER.
*looks again*
*baroo face*
*runs Away doing The Scream face*
Is like all the botox restylane Fat transfer and things are clashing with the nose and the Tan (3 Boehners) and the hkjdsfdskjhfdslhdskffhds I cannot study her face anymore I feel like it’s making me crazy
are you saying that her tan is 3 Boehners as in a level of tan?!
hahahahahahahaha! that is awesome!
That’s exactly what I’m saying, Boehners are my Tan Measurement and I think 5 Boehners is the max and that’s no small feat, only JLo, Kardashians or Boehner looking like a sad tangerine in the sun are usually in the unattainable 5
I believe that colour is called Midnight Oompa Loompa.
Sculptural or fat injections
I have been wondering about this myself forever! What did she do??
She did something because her face looks so odd to me. Especially when you have her face on Friends reruns all the time.
I always thought she was attractive in an unconventional way but something about her looks off.
That’s what I was wondering. I couldn’t tell if it was weight gain or fillers–because her face looks ‘fat’ and tight at the same time.
Glad i’m not the only person noticing this. She’s had some OTT touch ups. Has anyone seen Justin lately? Maybe they got a 2 for 1?
@Florc
I didn’t want to say anything, really, because I am HORRIBLE at telling fillers/plastic surgery/weight gain or loss…..it has to be super obvious. Like I don’t think Renee Zellwager looks any different beyond being shiny and doing something to her eyelids (and even then I just noticed that she was less squinty). But yeah–either Jennifer gained weight or she put a shitton of fillers in her face. Especially in the GMA video–she looks really puffy and tight. And that blouse is doing her NO favors–I showed it to my friend, and we were both talking about how ugly it was.
As far as Justin goes–just looked at a fansite (that posts candids)–as of the 16th, he’s back in NYC. And two days ago, Jennifer was in Hollywood going to a screening of ‘Cake’ at the Egyptian Theater. So yeah…..maybe not twinsies this time.
As an OT–apparently Justin’s filming Zoolander 2 next year–Penelope Cruz just joined the cast, along with Ben Stiller. I will now eat my words 😉
VC
I’m terrible at noticing that stuff too. Maybe I can tell somethings off, but I can’t look as say… Chin job, cheek implant, ear lift. or whatever the latest craze is.
Although with Aniston as of late she’s got fillers. Face is puffy. But! As we know she breaks her diet for booze during these promotional tours and bloats up sparking pregnancy rumors. So, IDK.
OMG. Justin is just a bad screenwriter. This was always going to be a disaster though so we will see.
I’m always trying to find the great small roles, the stronger more slice of life more complex and I’ve been doing fart jokes for a long time, which I love immensely.
I’m having issues deconstructing this sentence. Maybe I should smoke about 10 bongs or so?
I’d share but it’s Friday and I need the rest of these nuggets to last me through the weekend.
Totally DM’ing you a teener of BBK, Kitten. 😉
So please translate: Is this sentence about complex slices of dutch-ovening with Brow von Guyliner Fonz?
Pretty much. Literal translation would be a felony and this post will prob get poofed, so I’ll leave it at that. 😉
YES. BBK just in time for turkey-eating, pie-mauling and other fat-inducing f*ckery.
Let’s burn one down in the name of true friendship, mimif.
Then we’ll point at Kiddo’s Bramhall II poster and snicker, but only because we’re both really stoned and his hair is suddenly extra-funny.
Kitten, you are misinformed. The hair only becomes more awesome with each toke. It’s a cottony soft swab of sweet heaven.
puff, puff, pass, Kitten my love.
I think Anniston is the one who stole the absinthe.
Yo bitch, I’m the one who knocks! My spoon and sugar cube is so lonely….
I guess one of my issues with this comment from her is that she’s talking like she doesn’t have a bajillion dollars, and can’t fund any sort of script that she wants–or at least have a better shot at it than a lot of other actresses. Plus she has that production company. When was she going to make Goree Girls again?
She’ll make it when she no longer needs something to shoot for. Something for her fans to say i support of her breaking out of her on screen repetative roles.
@FLORC
I truly wonder what she’ll do next year. That’s the gossip to wait for. I googled the ‘Jennifer Aniston Five picture deal with Cinelou’, and basically ‘Cake’ was the first of five movies that they’ll produce–but not specifically Jennifer (from Deadline). She doesn’t have anything on her IMDB–no future projects. So what will she do? Especially if she doesn’t get a Golden Globe nomination. Maybe she’ll want to present???? It’ll be interesting in the next few years, to see how her career goes. Hopefully it’ll force her to branch out more–into directing and/or producing. PLEASE. Need more women–I don’t understand why she doesn’t do it. And it’s not like she has to only produce serious films–Elizabeth Banks produced and is directing Pitch Perfect 2….that’s the kind of project I expect Jennifer to do(just based on her film history).
OTT–I see her and Justin either breaking up or getting married next year. I don’t think they can keep going on with the ‘hot feet’ bs OR staying hundreds of miles apart from each other for most of the year.
VC
I bet they play this married not married game muuch longer than we think they can. And I think Justin is on board. He’s made a seemless transition into her game.
And I think if she was willing to put in the work. Have a few flops/failures. Be a joke for a bit. Then get a great role and earn her place as a decent producer it would be great. I just don’t think she can let the pr hustle settle long enough to focus on that type of project. Every role, comedic or serious gets hyped as the greatest performance of hers ever. Or the 1 where she shows her chest. Without fail.
@FLORC
Haha, this is SO long ago, but I’ve finally liberated my computer from my dad (I’m w/my mom in Zion, and their internet is SHIT, and my dad had to do homework)….
But YES. One thing I’ll never get is why she’s touted as this BRILLIANT comedienne, but she’s never even been nominated for anything for her film work, past the bought-and-paid-for awards (like those People’s Choice Awards; MTV Best Dirtbag Award) like a GG or an SAG. Especially a GG. She was on a highly popular tv show for ten years; won a GG for the role, and an Emmy. I think that the minute she put out a halfway decent comedic film she would’ve been nominated in a heartbeat. Especially since the HFPA WILL nominate you based on popularity (I love my Angelina, but girl, I know that The Tourist was cringeworthy. I drooled over the jewelry, fashion, and site p0rn, but they looked SO uncomfortable together, for what should’ve been a cute little movie)…I mean, no one’s explained that to me yet. Especially since the comedy/musical slot, as I understand it is very hard to fill.
And yeah–I’m just a little upset that she can’t seem to want to take any risks in producing. She has the money, the name. All she has to do is PICK a project, and it will be covered by gossip blogs (just like Angelina’s projects) heavily. All that free PR, going to waste. And I remember when she did Horrible Bosses and We’re the Millers…it was all ‘Jennifer as we’ve never seen her before!’…which, sure fine. Same with Cake. But I think she could be a great producer/director. I thought what she did in Five was decent for a lifetime movie, but she doesn’t seem to do that. I joke to my friend that Kristin Hahn must spend all of her producing time w/Jennifer slurping margaritas and bitching…..
I tried it Kiddo, didn’t work. Course it was only 1 not 10.
A for effort.
No need to deconstruct, Kiddo, just quit thinking thoughts, flip your hair three times (then tell a fart joke) and it will all make* sense.
*forgot to work the guyliner in there
I hope that ‘fart’ replaces all of the ‘awesome’ and ‘amazing’ portions of Oscar acceptance speeches next year. I might actually watch, if this becomes a thing. Hopefully the show is sponsored by Doritos.
“It came true!” *squeak fart*
That would be havering amazingly!
#BraveHero #LovelyThoughts #NeverForget
I actually think she does have acting chops, she was very good in The Good Girl with Jake Gyllenhaal. Not sure why her career never went in that direction, and I agree with Kaiser that she could easily go the Elizabeth Banks/Reese Witherspoon/Drew Barrymore route and produce movies with meatier roles herself.
That said, I never got fart humour. Not really funny.
Waiting for this thread to get epic. I entertained myself for awhile last night reading the ITW thread. Wow, I had no idea it got like that in comments even after all this time.
Hence my “crazies” comment up yonder. Oh. My. God. People get SOOOOOOO emotionally invested in these celebrities’ lives. I love gossip as much as the next person, but there was one woman posting diatribes and soliloquies about the whole triangle and “defending” AJ, even though no one was attacking, and talking about how everyone was “coddling” and “enabling” JA (as if we KNEW these people). It was surreal, to say the least.
What struck me is the attacking of every single commenter who said they thought JA moved on, and then going on and on about how she doesn’t need our sympathy or something like that, as if the comments were going directly into JA’s inbox. It made no sense at all, but was SO emphatic. I was blown away and stayed up much later than I should have reading the 200+ comments, pure sugar post crack!!
It’s actually quite scary!
I think Jennifer is a good actress ,but I’m not completely convinced that she’s a leading lady. I think she does better in supporting roles.
Jenn has a 5 film deal and most likely an ownership stake with Cinelou Productions.
They’ll probably continue casting her in more challenging dramatic roles in the future.
She also acquired the film rights to The Goree Girls so maybe she’ll pursue that project.
Tippy, Aniston does NOT have a 5 film deal with them. ” After Dark Films and Shenghua Entertainment, a leading producer of television drama series in the greater China market, announced a five picture, USD $50MM co-financing pact, for the production of five $7MM-$10MM films over the next 18 months. ” THAT is the 5 film deal, there is no deal for her to be in all 5! God, you fans just make things up.
She has been talking about Goree Girls for half a decade now. It is not happening. She could finance it herself, but she can’t bother to do anything outside her comfort zone.
She gets all the roles no one else wants.
Cinelou productions is not a company that is going to be making big waves. Cake could not even get a real distributor.
Mimi is correct. There is no 5 picture deal with Cinelou. I believe that Cinelou has actually doubled their investment subsequently into a series of projects, but there are no other projects with Aniston. And without any distributor interest, this is film will be hard presses to recoup even it’s modest price tag.
BTW, there is NO money in any budget for an Oscar promotion for Jen either from this studio. Commendable that she’s finally taken a career risk but it’s yet to show any signs of a pay off for anyone involved with this project.
I feel pity for this trick, I really do. She’s embarrassing herself now – pathetic.
Right? Before you start talking with other serious actresses about your affection for you non-commercial labors of love, maybe you should have at least one distributed first?
“then you can spend the time with these little labors of love, which I’ve learned sometimes you have to create for yourself.”
I can’t tell if she’s still talking about farts or not.
LMAO.
If Aniston were smart she would carve out a career for herself on television–I think that format suits her better than all these crappy movies. We’ll see how Cake turns out but the advanced reviews are not boding well for her.
Or go into producing/directing. She has shittons of money. But she doesn’t seem to want to take risks on anything. Maybe she’ll do it next year….
i dont understand why she didnt do that ages ago – all the best writers and actors and actresses are there on tv – she cd do both if she wanted to or produce whatever – million dollar question why she never did
HA! lol
Hahahahhaaha, @Jaderu, you are so funny! Love it
Hmm..! Learn new things about her everyday, not so pleasant this time. She should get together with GC, apparently he likes that kinda jokes too!
http://www.tvguide.com/news/george-clooney-laughs-fart-jokes-1039533.aspx
It’s gonna be a looooong awards season and I’m sick of her already.
God, I can’t believe farts are the new hot thing. I also still cannot believe KK was on a Vogue cover, QQ invented a Tan Indexometer and is not being recognized by Science for it, or that I will be sporting a pug onesie this weekend. With all of this craziness, maybe JA will be clutching that little man whilst giving a speech. (Oscar, the little man, not Justin)
She is sooooo much more attractive with dark hair.
Her natural tones. I agree.
Oh JLaw. How you have aged.