Lately, Jennifer Aniston is working very hard to shed her tabloid-shaped, “good girl” image, which I suspect is part of her publicity team’s plan to make audiences comfortable with the fact that she plays a not-so-nice character in the upcoming Horrible Bosses. Strangely enough, however, the focus of Aniston’s visit to “Inside the Actor’s Studio” (where she was accompanied by new love Justin Theroux wasn’t as much about the new movie as about rehashing the past. Again.
On The End Of “Friends”: It’s one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It gave me everything. It gave me this ridiculously blessed life and career and taught me so much, and it’s the best time I ever had.
On The Break-Up (Slight Reference to Brad):It was just a beautiful story about a couple breaking up. And I was slightly familiar on the topic and the issue. And I sort of honestly felt like, what a great way to sort of exercise some of that. I enjoyed it. It really enjoyed it. You would think otherwise, because even the producers were like, “I don’t know if we should ask you to do this,” but I was like, why not? Turn the page, let’s move on.
Well, at least she slightly acknowledges what “Friends” has done for her career, but I’d like to point out that, in my opinion, it was not “one of” her best jobs but solely “the best” job she’s ever had when one considers the indeterminable void comprising the whole of Aniston’s movie career. But still, Horrible Bosses is totally worth your hard-earned money and is totally different than any other indistingishable Aniston movie because she’s wearing a brunette wig and, therefore, deserves to be treated like Meryl Streep. Or, at the very least, like Nicole Kidman for wearing that prosthetic nose in The Hours, right?
Here are the relevant clips from Aniston’s appearance on “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” and it’s rather amusing how Aniston uncontrollably commits the following offenses: (1) Plays with her hair too much; and (2) Still relies on the instant gratification of live audience reaction, which (much to Jen’s dismay) is only forthcoming when the “Clap!” notice appears.
[Video clips courtesy of HuffPo]
On the topic of Jen’s new movie, she reportedly plays a very villainous character who utters the “F-word” (one of them, anyway) as part of her dialogue. Of course, this seems rather inconsistent with her GLAAD Vanguard Award (presented in 2007 by Jake Gyllenhaal) for her contribution to a positive outlook in regard to alternative families and lifestyles (for her tangential association to the lesbian couple on “Friends” and for making out with Courteney Cox on Dirt). Nonetheless, she’s just an actress delivering dialogue, right?
In the new comedy Horrible Bosses, Jennifer Aniston plays an overbearing dentist named Julia who tortures her assistant Dale (Charlie Day) by sexually harassing him. She’s one of three managers (along with Colin Farrell and Kevin Spacey) meant to be so detestable that their underlings plot to murder them. She constantly corners Dale, asking him to perform lewd sexual acts. In one scene, Aniston’s character calls him into her office, wearing nothing but a white lab coat. When he expresses discomfort, she taunts him like a high-school bully. “You’re starting to sound like a little fa–ot there, Dale,” she says.
What’s going to happen when millions of people watch an actress who is supposed to be America’s Sweetheart say a word like that?
[From Daily Beast]
LMAO at the notion of Aniston as “America’s Sweetheart,” who has spent the past, what, month attempting to shed said reputation of the spurned wife by hanging with the sketchy Terry Richardson and banging a man with a 14-year live-in girlfriend. Score another point for Aniston’s PR team.
Horrible Bosses movie stills courtesy of AllMoviePhoto
Why do people despise her so much? If you don’t like her acting, don’t go see her movies. It’s that simple.
If it was the blonde Jennifer, I’d be upset but she’s wearing a wig so I know she doesn’t mean it. She’s acting.
No different than any actor who has to say a slur that is not true to their own individual personality. Heaven forbid an actor play a role which could be taken as offensive, wouldn’t want that.
Your grudge against her is a little silly, she’s such a bland inoffensive woman she just flies under most people’s radar.
Wow, she’s really dumb.
I think a lot of people that don’t like her don’t go to see her movies. I don’t read all the comments on her threads, but most of them are not about her acting.
I will say I don’t see her films, so I have never made a negative comment about her acting.
I just think Vince Vaughn got such flack for using a gay slur in his movie.
Why is this different. Is it because it is Jennifer Aniston. Plus she said Retard on Regis. and her fans again jumped to defend. But I will say with all confidence, if it had been others they would be outside boycotting the film.
YEP..truth.
Why is this even a story? Okay, just as an example… There are about a million Scorcese films out there starring such brilliant actors as DeNiro and Pacino, in which characters spew profanities and insults left, right and centre. Does it make me think Scorcese or any of his actors are anti-gay, anti-semitic, anti-Italian or anti-anything? No. It’s a movie. They’re telling a story. And unfortunately, there are still people in the world who use disgusting words like “f—ot.” JA’s character in Horrible Bosses is clearly supposed to be one of them. Doesn’t make me dislike HER any more than I already did!
About the use of the F word…isn’t her character supposed to be obnoxious? That would explain politically incorrect expressions, I think.
And I agree that Friends wasn’t one of her best jobs, it’s the best one. The only one worth my time. I simply can’t sit through her movies — after watching Rumor Has It and enduring what I can only describe as a type of torture, I gave up watching her in movies.
P.S.: I tried to watch it on TNT last year, because Mark Ruffalo looks absolutely adorable in it, but I couldn’t.
Jennifer Aniston on “Inside the Actor’s Studio”! LOL! Well, I see THAT program has spiralled downwards…she’s an actor, my ass. America’s Sweettart should have appeared on “Inside The Actor’s Spa/Hair Salon”…or better yet, “Inside the Actor’s Pants”.
The clock is ticking on you, Sweettart. You’re a one trick pony, and a living example of the late Aldous Huxley’s opinion of Los Angeles, “There’s no there there.”
See you in a year…oh, but Huvane will surely find a way to splash your vapid squash and ass onto covers…just so we know our Sweettart is doin’ a-okay.
I despise her fakeness and I don’t watch her movies.
Why did so many people go nuts when a gay slur was used by Vince Vaughn in his movie, but not one word about this. Seems odd that one is OK and one deserves months of screaming.
inside the ACTOR’s studio, they’re reaching with miss cutsie aren’t they? Wasn’t Dane Cook available?
Yes yes, we know Jen. You’ve turned the page, you moved on.
And Break Up was such a beautiful story indeed.
*wipes a tear.
Honestly, your obsessive hatred for this woman has gotten out of hand. It was a line in a movie, for god sakes.
Priscilla i agree with you 100 percent.
I think the difference may be that Vaughn’s character was the protagonist in that movie, and it was not said to demonstrate that the character was a bad person, unlike it clearly is here – “offensive” and “indefensible” to quote the 2 people who wrote the script.
Granger, agree with your point. Movie “villains” do terrible things all the time, and do not and should not reflect on the actor.
An actor who says or does something offensive off-screen is a different story, and that’s when groups like GLAAD should call them out. And yes, IMO JA should have issued an apology for her “r” word incident, as other celebs have done.
Why is this even news? So many other more hateful things are said in movies and people don’t even bat an eyelash. JA says the f word FOR A ROLE IN A MOVIE (for fuck’s sake!!) and it’s all over the place. Good grief.
@Granger I think there is a huge difference between using slurs in dramatic ways to show how the characters speak than there is to using these slurs as a punchline. The gangster characters DeNiro and others have played are racist, homophobic criminals and they are using street venacular. When someone uses gay slurs as a punchline they are saying it’s funny to make fun of someone who is gay. BIG DIFFERENCE.
Seriously get a grip – it is a bit of name calling, get over it. Stop being so PC. It isn’t as if she is involved in a hate crime.
yeah, I gotta go with Riana and Granger here.
I don’t like that word AT ALL, but they’re right.
she’s playing a role, and when I see an actor use the N word, or some other such slur, I don’t automatically go say “oh, so-and-so is a bigot” because they use a word while in character. it’s akin to saying that actors who perform sex scenes are “cheating” on their bf/gf.
Honestly, i don’t see the problem. i don’t like her AT ALL, but she is acting in a movie portraying a nasty character.
It’s like actors portraying white supremasist racists using slurs and derrogatory comments towards a specific community.
Or actors playings abusers using slurs and obscenities towards women.
It’s ACTING, people.
@Granger ITA with you! And what about Tarantino films? i.e. True Romance has a scene using the “N” word. Does that mean QT and the actors Dennis Hopper & Christopher Walken are racist in real life? No.
This was overblown with that Ron Howard movie (Vince Vaughn) and is being overblown with Aniston.
And after reading through the comments of yet another Aniston post, I am still baffled that a person as vanilla as Aniston can inspire such a crazy love or such crazy hate from people?!
Regardless if a person is starring in a movie, or not, in my opinion, IT IS NEVER OKAY TO USE THAT WORD. No matter how horrible a boss she is supposed to be in the movie, there are many other words she could have said. The writers, maybe not so much her, should know better than that.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
Why is she STILL talking about her divorce?? With her new man RIGHT THERE in the audience.
Seriously, she needs to “Turn the page and move on”
Ok so how many of the commentors here were up in arms a few weeks ago when Tracy Morgan did his homophobic comedy routine? I’d like to know the difference? I think in comedy when you are using someone’s sexuality as the punchline there is a HUGE difference to acting in character.
Why is it that this chick can say anything and do anything and she gets a free pass from the Hollywood set and her fans?I will say that she definitely knows how to make millions with minimal talent by marketing herself through the tabloid press like the Kartrashians.
@ mln76
I do think there is HUGE difference. In a movie, an actor is part of a storyline where he or she immerse herslef/himself, using words, sentences that are given and that s/he renders in orther to interpret a specific role. We know it’s not jen Aniston, but whatever the name of the character that utter those words.
WIth commedians, I am sorry, the commedian involves himself, enganged himself, his past, his views, his personnality.
He choses deliberatly to mock something and has tons of other ways to do it but yet choses to do it his own ways. He isn’t restrainted to interpret something definite written as a character, he takes things on his own name and decide to use it on his name.
I beleive, he puts his own personality and morality at stake here.
that’s why I loathed the use of R-word she used as Jen Aniston bnecause it defines her and her beleives, but wouldn’t mind if it was in a movie portraying a character who use it, where she just interpret.
@ Mln76:
I think (my opinion, you have the right to disagree with it) that there is a difference.
For instance, I was watching Eddie Murphy’s stand-up show on VH1 (the one from 1987) and right in the begining he starts using the F word a lot — he goes on and on telling jokes about gay men because apparently some people had complained about his homophic slurs. I know that back then people weren’t so aware of the implications of (the use of) such word — it still made me uncomfortable to watch it. However, I have to admit that he was making jokes, he wasn’t saying anything like killing/beating to death/strangling his (hypothetical) son in case he was gay.
Tracy Morgan, on the other hand, made statements. It was part of his stand-up show but the way he said those things didn’t sound like he was making fun of anything. It sounded like he meant it.
Just want to add that if we are going to pick on the use of the “f” word by Aniston’s presumably loathsome boss character, then in the same movie we should call out Collin Farrell as well. Based on the trailer I’ve seen a few times (I watch a lot of Comedy Central) Farrell’s loathsome boss character offensively discriminates against:
• fat people – he tells Sudakis they need to “trim the fat” at the company and then proceeds to tell him to “fire all the fat people” who work there staring with “large Marge”
• handicapped people – he also tells Sudakis to fire someone in a wheelchair that he despairingly calls “Professor Xavier” and then his character says about the handicap man “he creeps me out rolling around in that special secret little chair”
@nnn
Here is my feeling if you are watching a dramatic movie it’s clear that the character is saying words to make the character more realistic. If you are watching a comedy the ultimate goal is to get a laugh. In that case the punchline is that she is using the word f***t (replace the word with any other slur against race or disability and it’s just as offensive to me). So it’s ultimately not about the character but the reaction of the audience.
Now I didn’t make clear that I don’t blame Aniston (although she could have refused to say it) as much as the writers. Just like I blamed Vaughn when he used the slur in his film because I believe he was a co-writer.
@Eve in 1987 people black and white were homophobic much more so than today. I would hope there would be more outrage today then there was 25 years ago about Murphy’s act.
I also think Morgan’s act was reprehensible. But I also think it’s a shame that people think nothing of laughing at words like F*G or R***D because in some ways it’s more dangerous when the words are used and no one is bothered by them.
@Priscilla and nnn
ITA with you, ladies!
Oh for Gawd’s sake! There’s more than enough reasons to have a go at Aniston but her use of an offensive scripted word in a movie is really NOT one of them. This comes across as just picking on her for the sake of it and very mean-minded.
Ditto what Granger and others similar posts said earlier.
For goodness sakes. The film is about 3 bosses who are so obnoxious and politically incorrect that the employees want to kill them. Why not complain about Colin Farrell’s character who wants a disabled person fired because they creep him out wheeling about all day.
If you don’t want to see a comedy which is politically incorrect, then don’t watch this film.
Mary Pickford in “Sparrows” and ” Lilian Gish in “Orphans of the Storm”; Bette Davis in “Of Human Bondage”; Garbo in “Camille”; Ketherine Hepburn in “The Philadelphia Story”; Barbara Stanwyck in “Stella Dallas”; Vivien Leigh in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and in her stage performances; Ingrid Bergman in anything she did.
……Ellen Burstyn in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “Requiem for a Dream”; Jodie Foster in “Taxi Driver”; Diane Keaton in “Looking for Mr. Goodbar”.
Who are these mere “actresses”, these mere pretenders, when held up against the utter and incalculable depth, range, and awe-inspiring screen presence of Jennifer Aniston, who, with every riveting, exciting role she takes on, manages to reach an audience on a level so profound, a level these mere pretenders above pale in comparison in regards to their valiant efforts.
Jennifer Aniston IS the American Cinema. She is the gold standard that all actresses, prior and future, will have a hard time living up to.
I hereby proclaim that, one hundred years hence, it will be this woman’s name that is remembered, not Pickford, not Leigh, not Gish, not Hepburn, Keaton, or Garbo.
Jennifer is a deeply feeling woman. She feels things very, very deeply. You can see it in her eyes, in her movements, in her thought-provoking interviews. When I am sitting alone in a darkened cinema, watching one of her remarkable performances, all else ceases to exist.
Jennifer and Hitchcock; Jennifer and Scorcese; Jennifer and Truffaut; Jennifer and Cukor…oh, what masterpieces she and a sampling of cinema’s legendary directors could have achieved.
This woman and her unmatchable talent reaches into the depths of my soul, and I am all the better for it. Watching Jennifer emote on the silver screen is the next best thing to a religious experience.
@ Mln76:
@Eve in 1987 people black and white were homophobic much more so than today. I would hope there would be more outrage today then there was 25 years ago about Murphy’s act.
I know. In that context, he was doing what others were doing. I watched only in 2011 in that “Movies That Rock” specials from VH1. The irony, as I said once on an unrelated post is that Murphy was caught with a transvestite in his car years later.
I also think Morgan’s act was reprehensible. But I also think it’s a shame that people think nothing of laughing at words like F*G or R***D because in some ways it’s more dangerous when the words are used and no one is bothered by them.
I understand your point but since her character is supposed to be a horrible person, it still makes sense to me. I think it will depend on the context.
Having said that, I’ll probably not watch this — don’t like her in movies.
EDIT:
LMAO with Mr. Greek’s post.
It’s a comedy people, this pc crap is getting ridiculous
@Mr. Greek: thank you, brilliant post, lol
🙂
@Anon & Eve: I spoke from my ever-lovin’ heart.
EXCLUSIVE! Jennifer Aniston speaks to reporters after returning to the studio from her year long hiatus!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOLypkY8LMc
as a lesbian female, i do feel like we have to be careful with how we use words that can hurt, but at the same time we cant police everyone we cant FORCE everyone to aplogize everytime they use the “F” word.
“This comes across as just picking on her for the sake of it and very mean-minded.”
totally agree, and that’s what happens on this site (or any other celeb gossip site)…if a commenter doesn’t like the subject of a post (be it Aniston, Jolie, Portman, whomever) they’ll use a seemingly ridiculous reason to bash that person.
and mia girl made a great point…I don’t like it when people make fun of someone because they’re fat (or disabled), just as if they were to make fun of a gay person, but I’m not holding Farrell responsible for the horrible things his character says about overweight or disabled people.
Well, she said the word “retard,” on morning tv and never acknowledged it at all. How others feel is probably not high on her list of priorities–esp. since she was photographed publicly dating a man who was still living with his longtime girlfriend at the same time. And, only a few days after this girlfriend moves out, Aniston is out with the the guy getting publicity pictures taken for the presses. She seems to have a missing “sensitivity chip” when it comes to the feelings of others.
As for this movie, well, she’s a big star. She could have said no, if she wanted. But it is a role where she plays a terrible person. Can she portray a terrible person without resorting to gay slurs? Of course. But that would require, you know, ACTING. She should try it sometime. 😉
@Mr Greek
Michael K..is that you?
Lol!
Seriously thanks for giving me the most laughs I’ve ever had on this site..
This movie should be renamed”Horrible Actors”
Well using the word faggot is a slur but could also fall under sexual harassment, and isn’t that what her character is guilty of in this script?
@mln76 – Vaughn was not a writer in that film, just an actor.
I don’t see the difference why it’s OK for a drama but not a comedy. Acting is acting, playing a character is playing a character – all are fictional characters. Stand up comedy is a whole different story.
Well she doesnt look bad as a brunette (her natural color if I recall correctly) but she looks better as a blonde. It is just a movie and she is just reading the script and playing the role – doesnt bother me.
Wow…reaching a bit on this one Kaiser…it’s for a role in which her character is supposed to be horrible to the point that her employee wants to kill her. The hatred for this woman is outstanding. Same with AJ, if you don’t like either of these women, don’t see their films.
Yepp wrote: “As a lesbian female…”
As opposed to a male lesbian? Or a male she-male posing as a lesbian, which would technically make him/her a she-male wanna be lesbian thespian? Oh, I haven’t been this confused since Pam Ewing awoke to find a ressurected Bobby Ewing in the shower at Southfork Ranch. Just razzin’ ya, Yepp. All in good fun.
Lesbian…thespian…Jennifer Aniston…flaming talented thespian…nah, just don’t work.
@ Mr Greek: Here Here! You have sublime taste. SIGH…I miss the cinema of the 70’s.
@anneesezz I *don’t* go see her movies. I avoid them like the plague. IF she wasn’t in this one, I would go see it but I won’t. I don’t rent them nor do I watch them on TV. I *loathe* that she is in Office Space and think it’s a tragic waste of celluloid in an otherwise wonderful film. She is upthere with the Shia speaking parts of TF3.I will not watch that on my own unless I have the FWD button primed and ready. I CANNOT STAND HER AND HER WHINY VOICE (and no I am NOT Team Angelina, I think AJ’s a homewrecker – whiny or not Pitt married her.)
She can’t act which brings me to “WTF IS SHE AT THE *ACTORS* STUDIO” Isn’t this about ACTING?
@MrGreek: Thanks for the best laugh I’ve had all day.
@WhiteNoise: ITA. She’s an actor with a script. Big effing deal.
Um, I likedh er in Friends with Money….and I do think she has good comedic timing when she wants to….
And I hear the Good Girl was great…so???
I agree she is overrated, overexposed and I guess over paid, but if she brings in the dollars for the studios, then she is being compensated fairly-just like m any male actors who fall into the same category=mediocre talent at best, average looking/cute but not gorgeous, e tc.
Also, I have not come to full on hate her like I do Julia Roberts now. And finding out Roberts has slept with everyone she has acted with just makes it worse….but ti’s her smug/entitled/condescending attitude that made me unable to go see her usually lame movies, anyway….But I used to enjoy her fluff movies for what they were…somewhere along the line, I just stopped even being able to deal with her.
Just sayin’-Anniston is just ‘there’-she’s awful in some movies, and decent in others….she’s cute, she is not pretentious or downright condescending or rude in her interviews….I think she knows she is lucky.
I like her in the brunette wig.
And I think her fashion sense is good-she has GREAT shoes. Always.
And I don’t understand why ppl spend so much energy hating her. [yes, i am familiar with the PR campaign/’the triangle’ etc-even still,, i think it’s time for others to let that go, as well, not just her….it’s just over the top at this point=the hatred towards her. she’s too harmless for me to hate-kinda like Siena Miller is harmless in my eyes…meh. ]
Just enjoy the pretty fashionable people, everyone!
ps-I think the Actor’s Studio is really just not redeemable at this point…..Cannot be taken seriously, has descended into the depths of reality t.v. a nd american idol, it appears….
She looks absolutely beautiful with the dark wig. She should stick with that look. much more youthful than her current blond bob.
Yes anneesezz and Riana, people that are best buddies with Chelsea Handler are sooooo inoffensive. [rolls eyes]
ZenB!tch, please provide 1 (one) incidence of where Angelina was a homewrecker. She is so far from that. Clearly you’ve been brainwashed by the trashloids and believe everything you read.
Mr. Greek-
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
(PAUSE.)…
BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!
(Rereads Mr. Greek’s post and then…)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
No comedian ALIVE can beat your post. No one can BEAT your comedic timing. And…he said it with a straight face! I will call this one the “Silver Joke!”
Still ROTFLMAO!
The haters on here are ridiculous, her character ” IN THE MOVIE” is an obnoctious dentist, so she acting people, get over yourselves!!!!
“As opposed to a male lesbian?”
Exactly my thought LOL, and also just joshing ya.
Mr Greek….hilarious!
LOL!
Oh.My.God. She has not one intelligent thing to say. She certainly doesn’t seem to have any real confidence or even personality. Her answers are so tentative and rather banal.
This is really lame and doesn’t help her image at all. Her answers just show why her appearance on this show is a joke.
I do think the darker hair is a good choice for her. I still don’t think she’s that good looking but she is much more interesting looking with the dark hair. She needs to embrace her real self and allow some natural aging – in reality nothing ages you more than desperately trying to dress and look way younger.
“On The Break-Up (Slight Reference to Brad):It was just a beautiful story about a couple breaking up. And I was slightly familiar on the topic and the issue. And I sort of honestly felt like, what a great way to sort of EXERCISE some of that.”
I believe the word she’s looking for is EXCISE. She wants to purge the pain not work out with it. Oh, Jen.
I see it now. The constant Brad references. It must have been a horrible experience to break up that way, but it was over ages ago. Let. It. Go. She’s been through tons of guys since then, if the tabs are to be believed, and if she didn’t EXCISE the breakup up through a little ‘EXERCISE’ in sex… I mean six years then she should just give up.
Is she trying to drum up work doing this or is it still a grudge against Brad and Angie? They never really talk about her do they? I almost wonder if all three are in on this… keep the momentum and interest going. Nah… Jen is coming out looking rather… sad.
Still going to see the movie though. Jason Bateman is my new man crush. See State of Play. He’s quite good in that.
Don’t you have to be some sort of actor to be in the actor’s studio? As far as I’m concerned this broad had been playing Rachel (aka herself) since 1995.
Mr.Greek-Laughin’ the ass off!!
@ Turtle Dove – I thought she meant EXORCISE, as in to remove the bad feelings she had been holding onto. But either way, excise or exorcise, she still used the wrong word, lol!
@ Mr. Greek – Awesome post! That was hilarious, thanks for the laughs 🙂
Oh puh-leese-are we now going to have the movie police? To track down, lecture and shake fingers at every potentially offensive word uttered on screen and on stage? And make a value judgement as to whether it’s more offensive in comedy, drama or stand-up. Total and complete waste of time. If it offends you in drama, write a dramatic letter. As far as I’ve heard, artistic expression, the First amendment and all that nonsense still exist. If you don’t like a chacterization, picket the show, hiss and boo the actor-that’s your expression that others may find offensive.
I really don’t care about this chick-boring and bland, total PR product. I can’t believe that this discussion is promted by anything she said or did,
Off the soapbox now.
Man…they’ll let any actor on that show.
“Strangely enough, however, the focus of Aniston’s visit to “Inside the Actor’s Studio” wasn’t as much about the new movie as about rehashing the past. Again.”
ummm…have you ever seen this show before? they talk to every guest about his/her past – childhood, first jobs, worst jobs, personal situations, etc. it’s not an appearance on leno, promoting a new film.
and it’s “exorcise” not “exercise” and she did use the word correctly. jeez – i’m not an aniston fan but why all the hate for this woman?
Uh, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with anything she’s said or done here. You’re stretching it. She’s not starring in the best movies, but she’s not hurting a soul. She seems really fun and harmless. And the use of the “F” word? She’s playing a character. No one is jumping down the throats of other actors who pretend to play murderers or psychopaths. She seems immensely grateful for what “Friends” did for her. At least in this interview. Please lighten up on this one.
@Turtle Dove (#58) – I believe she was using the word “exorcise,” which means to purge / expel something. Whoever transcribed her answer misspelled the word “exorcise” in a very unfortunate way.
Oh, and Mr. Greek – that was brilliant! Made me laugh out loud. The true Screen Goddesses vs. The Wig. Sigh.
@Mr Greek: Brilliant! You made my day with that 😆
As for this hoo-ha about a word, I think its just the publicity machine in action trying to stir people up and get them talking- its all just *more* PR for the movie. 🙄
As for Aniston, lordy she is one fug woman, but she so suits that brunette hair do.
She’s bringing up her divorce again? “AND, my movie THE BREAK-UP reminds me of my real-life BREAK-UP” with you-know-WHO, but hey, “let’s TURN the page,” shall we? And, she wasn’t even asked about her divorce, she was asked about the movie. It’s like she knows what gets her attention. Yep–she goes there, but pretends she’s NOT going there. Kinda like when she called Angelina “uncool,” and then told Oprah, “I don’t go there!” Kinda like last year’s People magazine interview: “Jen: 5 years after BRAD! Fun, Flirty, and 41!” I can see her name-dropping Brad when she turns 65. “Jen: 25 years after her BRAD! Healthy, happy, and using a walker!” And I’m sure the tabloids will run with this shit forever: “Angelina has her eye on Jen’s senior home; Will she steal Jen’s bedpan, too?,” and “Maddox marries a woman who looks just LIKE Jennifer Aniston; Is he rebelling against his homewrecker mom??!” 😉
Stay classy, Jen, and keep posing topless at the drop of a hat. What a class act! 😮
I read that as 14-year-OLD live-in girlfriend.
Firstly, please let me post of my adoration for Mr. Greek 😀
And I didn’t realise that Colin Farrell and Kevin Spacey were in this. Poor woman is grand at what she does, but there’s no way she’s in the same league as those two. If it’s any consolation to her, she shouldn’t be as embarrassed as her ex-husband was sharing a screen with the legend that is Peter O’Toole. 😉
Mr Greek you are absolutely hilarious. And so accurate. Cheers, mate. All those who are calling out Team Aniston have said it better than I could. Cosign.
The other point that has me laughing is that she is referencing Brad… The Breakup…as if nothing else more remarkable has happened to her in the last seven years outside of “Friends.” John Mayer was right about his statement when he said that she was stuck in 1998. Justin Theroux is right there in the audience as she behaves this way… in front of the media and in front of a live audience. It’s like she is in a trance and prefers to stay in it.
So I guess Justin’s relationship with Jennifer will include Brad after all. I wonder how much of this will he take. Can you imagine being with a woman who declares her love for you but keeps talking about a relationship that ended 7 years ago? What’s worse, Justin is extremely aware that she has no chance in Hades in getting back with the ex.
Barbara Streisand, is that you?
Bravo, Mr. Greek!
@Josephina. Absolutly correct.
I wonder if Brad is even aware about how often Jen mentions him or their break up? He is out there enjoying his life with his family, being happier than ever (according to him)
Also, does Brad ever regret dating then marrying Jen I wonder? If he met Angie back then, I doubt that he would have given Jen a second look.
“ummm…have you ever seen this show before? they talk to every guest about his/her past – childhood, first jobs, worst jobs, personal situations, etc. it’s not an appearance on leno, promoting a new film.”
Apparently, a lot of people here (including the author of the article) have never seen this show. JA mentions her ex husband very briefly and, of course, that’s the only part they care about to the point of ignoring pretty much everything else.
WOW that was beyond painful to watch.
She tries so hard to be deep and intelligent and mature and insightful, but holy crap she’s just so dumb it’s nothing short of horrifying to watch her. Poor girl. No wonder her career peaked with Friends and has been downhill ever since.
How can anyone talk positively about The Breakup? It was just utterly stupid, right up until the skeezy orgy scene which the guy sets up to torment Jen, which was so weird and disgusting, and in a supposedly middle-of-the-road comedy, too.
It’s amazing that interviewers ignore all the terrible crap Jen has churned out all these years. She’s one step away from being the female Pauly Shore.
Addie
I don’t know if he regrets it. I think he loved her and just outgrew their life together. Friends have said that at parties Brad was on one side with his friends and Jennifer on the other with hers. Looking at their friends you can see they don’t have much in common. Look. Brad doesn’t talk about her. He did once a few years ago after her Uncool comment then nothing. And he never references his divorce. Angie seems to have a much better history with her Ex. BBT has even said he has had dinner with both Brad/Angie..
I think they met each other at the right time. The time when they were both ready. Good or Bad past relationships matter. Looking at how Brad/Angie are and how they live is quite different than she was with her ex and he with his. They have not spent much time apart. Whereas when they were married to other people they were apart for weeks and months.
I think the Brad or break up reference was no big deal, but she has to know it would picked up. People wait for it; because it usually comes in some way. Like her talking about keeping voice messages from her “husband”. So she should be smart enough to not even go there. Brad manages to talk without mentioning or references her at all.
so I guess it is possible.
@ katnip.That makes sence. Well put (as always)
Thank mr.Greek..whata beautiful words..
anyway..for anyone who so easyly offended with just word who didnt actually point to them directly..light up a bit..
and for people who keep saying that only jen who refer about BP (eventhough she didnt mention about it)..open your eyes..Bp mention about jen couple of time..he even mention that jen is a sweetheart..and he will never erase her in his life..even defend jen when the Uncool stuff come out..and for people who said that jen didnt get along with her ex..wake up..she is..she even spotted talking with Tate D and visiting Jm in Atlanta on the set of wanderlust..even VV will play with Bstiller in the movie which script made by Jtx…so..please do not make up facts.just because you dislike her..
btw..its her right to talk about her own experiece..as long she didnt mention any name..she might use it to be pick up for the media..but so what..Bragie did this often..using their kids..so chill…
General comment re “why all the hate for JA” questions. I don’t think anyone started hating on her until after she managed to land Brad. She was pretty inoffensive before that.
But the fact that an average-looking, semi-charming sitcom star could snag a huge film star, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, sparked some major jealousy and rage. And the fact that she then moved up to A-list status because of her relationship with him, and onto continued success. She achieved what so many people aspire to do and very few people never even come close. Hence the hate.
The question to ask is, if she did not marry Brad would she have the career she has now? Or would she be on the level of Lisa Kudrow and Debra Messing (who were other big comedy actreses during her Friends days)
Being with Brad catapolted her into the A list spotlight. Does anyone think she could have done it on her own? Does she have the acting talent?
Angela– “She mentions him only briefly…”
THAT IS EXACTLY OUR POINT….why mention him at all? Is it necessary?
Her reaction to the divorce from Brad has been a very negative event in her life. So stop reminding us of the negative event. Does she have to bring up Brad to carry a conversation of value? What would she talk about had she not married him? Surely other lessons have been learned in 6-7 years. Surely something else of worthiness has happened in her life.
The ugliest part about Aniston is her behavior. That one comment is still a reaction from the divorce and was made in front of a live audience. The comment was made to illicit a positive response from an audience of people that do not know her. Aniston is delusional in thinking her divorce is the big elephant in the room. She needs therapy.
I’ll also add that she was more than just a co-star with Vince Vaughn at the time the Break Up was filming. Her off-camera relationship lasted over a year. She even went on Oprah to defend her relationship, declaring that she was with Vince Vaughn amid rumors of a split. Yet today all she can say is that “it” was a time where she needed to exorcise?
So, in other words, yoga, crying to your girlfriends, mourning the marriage, screaming at the ocean, having pity parties, going on public record to make snarky comments (“I was shocked, the whole world was shocked…” “Billy Idol wants his hair back…” “I think there is a sensitivity chip missing”) was not enough? WTF? This is the second interview where I can recall that she has unpleasantly diminished her relationship with Vince Vaughn.
She could have fessed up and admitted that Vince Vaughn was really a great friend to her. He was the one that had to deal with her crying, again, about Angelina’s birth to Shiloh. He had to put up with more sh*t than anyone else. Vince Vaughn gave her attention (personal, professionally) at a very critical time. But, instead, she gives a shout out to Brad, the man who upgraded to Angelina Jolie, and only mentions Vince in character, totally diminishing his role in her life.
Between her hair twirling, fidgeting, too short dress attire and not completing her sentences…Aniston creeps me out when she refers to Brad because he is Angie’s Brad. Enough with the neurotic behavior.
@ Esmom (83)
Close, but not really. Like you’ve said – I used to find her harmless, kinda likeable and I enjoyed Friends while it lasted. And I understand how much it sucks to get dumped.
My active dislike for Aniston started when she began to milk and sell her post-divorce status, making it into a brand. I found it cynical and simply in bad taste (and I’m not talking about the first few months, I’m talking about the years that followed).
I’m also amused by how once things got out of control she started blaming the press, again assuming the victim status, this time – of the media, and by how her PR team and her fans try to brand a rather average looking and average talented TV performer the princess of Hollywood.
(I don’t know if I can find a clearer way of putting it.)
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edit: and yes, Josephina makes some very good points there
Cannot stand JA, but she looks much prettier w/ bangs.
Siska–
She can talk all she wants but own up to the consequences of talking too much.
We are the general public. Name another actress that milks the pity party card like Aniston instead on just focusing on her craft. I, like others, know too much about her divorce because she has diarrhea of the mouth when it comes to Brad.
If she was not such a woman-child she could be more responsible in judgement.
Please, Justin, stay a while. Be the father of her children and do not leave her. She needs love from a man in her life…Aniston does not handle the single life very well at all.
@Chloe, I hear you, I guess I hadn’t really considered the post-divorce part of the equation. I think I’ve always thought it was the media that’s milking the divorce and who can’t let it drop. I wonder how much she would have dwelled on it if she hadn’t been asked about it.
I think her “Rachel” persona made her seem so accessible that the media/interviewers/Oprah/etc. felt her personal life was fair game and have had no qualms about stepping over the line from professional to personal issues.
Anyway, I’m no JA fan by any stretch, just an observer semi-fascinated by her rise to fame.
I’m with everyone who said that as it’s her CHARACTER that is saying that word, I don’t see the big deal. It’s a hateful word and she’s supposed to be a hateful person in a movie. Has everyone gotten so PC that we’re going to sanitize what actors are supposed to say in movies now?
I have to say that I think Jennifer’s so much more attractive as a brunette but I’m rolling my eyes over the fact that a hairpiece is supposed to a game-changer in terms of her acting. Lastly, Mr. Greek’s post made me LMAO.
In “Horrible Bosses” Jen plays a horrible boss, a horrible person. Horrible people use the term “_aggot” to demean and degrade and to bash. Real horrible people do this and she was playing a part of a horrible person that her employee was plotting to kill. So as a man who has been called this by homophobic people being horrible, I was not offended. Made me root for the abused male employee.
This interview was a little wierd, I really think she was on medication, still aloof over the divorce, or had her head somewhere else. She wasn’t as outgoing as she usually is, kept looking into the audience waiting for a reaction, and it just didn’t seem like her.