Jennifer Aniston opens up to Entertainment Weekly!
The gorgeous Jennifer Aniston appears on the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly. She opens up about everything from her marriage to Brad Pitt to her new movie, Marley and Me.
On the pregnancy rumors:
”Oh, my God, it’s hysterical!” she says, throwing up her hands. ”You can’t do anything without it going to some extreme. It’s almost going to take away the fun from actually being able to say one day, ‘I’m pregnant!’ Everyone will be like, ‘Yeah, right.’ It’s the boy who cried wolf. Stop stealing my thunder, motherf—ers!”
On her controversial Vogue interview:
”[Election night] was just so moving, so unbelievable,” says Aniston. ”And now what do people do? Read my crap! Everything comes to a halt: ‘What did she say?”’ She shakes her head, smiling wryly. ”Good God. You have to laugh at it all at the end of the day.”
”I was just surprised that Vogue would go so tabloid,” she says. ”I was bummed. But you almost expect it. Big deal. Done. Next.”
On living under the tabloid microscope:
”Everyone projects their thoughts on you,” she says. ”Everyone’s got an opinion. I wish they didn’t. I’ve gotten to the point where, if I focus on all of that stuff, I won’t make a move, you know?” She pauses, trying to feel her way to the right metaphor. ”There’s this character — it’s like my Hannah Montana,” she says. ”That’s how I feel. There’s my Hannah Montana and then there’s me.”
“How do these people get the opportunity to just spew s—? They don’t know anything. You know, career choices — you just do what you do. Not everyone’s a winner. Not every episode of Friends was great. Not every guy you choose is great. Just across the board, there’s so much expectation.”
”Someone said to me, if a tabloid happened in the woods and no one was there to read it, did it happen?”
On playing a mother in her new movie, Marley & Me:
”Jen had some anxieties about preparing,” says director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada). ”You have crying babies, the kinks and stresses of being a young, exhausted mom — a lot of stuff she hadn’t been through personally or acted before.” In the end, Aniston embraced the challenge: ”I feel like that’s in my future and I’m on the verge of it in some way — or it’s something I long for. So it was great to sort of dip your toe in it.”
On her marriage to Brad Pitt:
”’The Hollywood fairy-tale romance’ — that’s what’s put onto it. It’s Luke and Laura. But if you strip away all of the glitz and the glamour and the headlines — the shock and awe of it — it’s just people living their life. S— happens, and it’s as normal as any other human being if you take away the headlines. It’s just not as interesting without the headlines.”
On being pigeonholed into romantic-comedy roles:
”The girl trying to get the guy — those movies just don’t interest me these days,” Aniston says. ”I’d be so bored just doing that. I always think of it as you’re walking down the aisle of the supermarket and there’s the Fruity Pebbles. I like to do a little Kashi as well, a little granola.”
