Word: aniston
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that changed last week with the release of The Good Girl. Now Aniston is getting the best reviews of her career--the kind of reviews that can lead to Oscar nominations. In the film, she stars as Justine, a small-town Texas woman with a dead-end job behind the makeup counter of a discount store called the Retail Rodeo. Married to a lug (John C. Reilly) who is lacking in both smarts and sperm count, Justine embarks on a disastrous affair with a troubled young co-worker (Jake Gyllenhaal...
...screenwriter Mike White (see box) who came up with the idea of casting Aniston. "I thought it would be fresh," he says. "Who wouldn't want to see America's sweetheart get blackmailed for sex and try to institutionalize her boyfriend and cheat on her husband? I just wasn't sure she'd respond to the material." Aniston responded immediately: "It felt like an opportunity--a terrifying opportunity--to go out there on a limb...
...million per episode of Friends, she knew that she would have to take a drastic pay cut for the low-budget movie, and that she would have to de-Rachel herself--drop the bouncy walk and the fluttery hand movements. "There's no lilt in Justine," says Aniston. "Life is hanging on her shoulders. On our first day of rehearsing, my acting coach said, 'Sit on your hands.' You don't realize you do these things. No wonder everybody says, 'She's Rachel, she's Rachel, she's Rachel...
...Aniston swears she doesn't know if Rachel will end up with Joey or Ross, or neither (shooting on the series resumes this week), but she is certain the ninth season of Friends will be its last. "Enough with the 'We're gonna stay, we're leaving,' and then 'No, we're not,'" she says. The success of The Good Girl is a good omen for her post-Friends employment prospects. Her movie career got another boost recently when she signed to co-star in the new Jim Carrey comedy, Bruce Almighty...
True or false? The Aniston-Pitt marriage is on the rocks; he's a homebody, and she prefers parties and premieres. "False," says Aniston. "What's fun about a premiere?" Aniston's most endearing trait may be that she's wholly lacking in movie-star pretension. She and Pitt are frequently spotted hanging out in L.A., easygoing and accessible, without an entourage or phalanx of bodyguards. They are often trailed by a photographer, but she doesn't gripe about the press. Not usually, anyway. Aniston recently settled--"amicably"--a lawsuit against two magazine publishers for running topless photos...