Justin Theroux has a new interview with an Aussie publication, TV Week. Season one of The Leftovers is already done here in America, but I guess it’s still running or about to run overseas? I often wonder what other countries think of some of the weirder American shows. Like, I know Mad Men is pretty popular in the UK and some other European countries and I’ve heard that many, many countries loved Breaking Bad, but would other nationalities give a crap about The Leftovers? Deep thoughts on a Monday morning, I know. Anyway, Justin talked about the show, plus some stuff about Jennifer Aniston. They’re still engaged and Justin makes it sound like they aren’t going to have a wedding any time soon.
Justin Theroux opened up about life with fiancee Jennifer Aniston and the pressure that comes along with it. The 43-year-old actor told Australia’s TV Week magazine that he couldn’t be happier ‘both personally and professionally.’ But he added: ‘However, there is this hum of pressure that – I can’t stress enough – I just don’t pay any attention to.’
The famous couple announced their engagement in August 2012 but don’t expect them to follow anyone else’s timetable when it comes to getting married.
‘But I am not going to let a tabloid tell me what to do. …I’m not going to watch them tap their watch. What the hell are you telling me to do?’ Justin said. ‘We’re just doing our own thing. We are completely happy, obviously, but we’re not on anyone else’s timeframe… I think love in anyone’s life creates expansion. And needless to say, it feels really good. So it’s only enriched by life.’
Justin was asked about how he relates to loss and grief on The Leftovers.
‘I’ve lost good friends, I’ve lost family members. Then there’s the obvious comparison, although I’m reluctant to compare a TV show to September 11. That event was, as a New Yorker, the first and hopefully last time I’ll feel that sort of collective grief. It made that big city feel incredibly small,’ he replied.
The writer of Hollywood hits such as Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2 and Rock Of Ages also reflected on his career.
‘My career has followed no particular path. As I’m sure you’re aware, I have the dumbest career in the world as far as ”Yeah, I’ll do that.” I’ve really guideed myself on what is going to be the next fun thing to do, I don’t think of it in terms of ”Will this be smart for my career?”’, he said.
I think it’s a bit too cute by half to claim – after more than two years of engagement – that the tabloids are the only ones pressuring Justin and Jennifer to marry. Any couple with an engagement that long and no wedding plans on the horizon would be getting pressure to set the date, tabloids or no tabloids. They would be getting pressure from friends, family and society, because it IS unconventional to make this big deal about an engagement and then… nothing. Especially when Jennifer got the People Magazine cover more than a year ago to have “sources” explain why the “wedding is on hold… indefinitely.” It’s Justin holding up the wedding plans, not Jennifer. Justin is gun-shy about marriage.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Where’s mimif? She LOVES this guy. Maybe she has a shot at him, while the wedding plans are on hold.
Why get engaged — publicly — with a bigass ring?
It’s the public part that he’s in denial about.
If a celebrity announces publicly he’s going to adopt a child, or get a divorce, or run for office, or any of a number of major life events, and then drags his feet for years, he shouldn’t be surprised when people ask about it.
Yeah, it’s like the tabloids put this burden on him to get engaged and announce it in the first place.
I just find long engagements odd, in general. Like, if you’re not getting married anytime soon, why bother getting engaged? I do understand, however, if a couple has to save money, or something comes up (health problems, lost a job etc), but from what I can tell, these two don’t really have an excuse…
I also think he is confusing tabloid “pressure” with tabloid “wondering why you havent gotten married because it’s weird to be engaged for 3 years with no sign of a wedding”
can someone please let me know about the ring? i know its gaudy etc but any idea how it looks like
…Or Hers…. Maybe only on Awards Season Timeframe… IF they both get Nominated… possibly on a Leap Yearr
Good one QQ! When the planets are correctly aligned… In 2051.
Everything he says sounds fake.. And putting his writing credentials out there is just embarrassing. Too bad he can’t say something authentic, like “I jumped at the chance to have a big star give me a huge career boost I did not actually earn – and it’s still working so why rock the boat by getting married?”
Belle you know who this all reminds me of? Katie “Kate” Holmes ..that whole thirst that the bigger star was gonna raise your profile so long as you played ball
He didn’t put his credentials out there, the writer did
They are never going to get married.
Never ever.
Correct.
He’s really had some work done on his eyes. Looking a little…. taut.
I agree. Never ever. It’s so bogus.
He’s a douche.
That is all.
Agree
Everytime I see a photo of him all I think is “that’s Uncle Terry Richardson’s best mate” yukkity yuk.
I have no words for how sick I am of him and JA
Yep. Especially her though but he’s gaining a yuck factor I used to only have for Pauly Shore.
…which I guess means never…
Justin Theroux will never marry Jennifer Aniston. Full stop.
No, I think Jennifer is the one holding it up. She busted her backside for her moolah and splitting it with Justin is not in the cards.
+1
that’s so bada$$ hipster of him.
He’s such a poseur…the douche is hard to mask with this guy.
I remember he played a douche type poser character on Sex and The City. I hated his character, he played it well. 🙂
I don’t think he understands what an engagement means. It means you’re going to get married. So people are curious about when you’re going to married. He acts like people are just pulling that question out of the air. I don’t really care, but it’s a natural question.
Justin: We’re engaged!
People Who Care: Great! Congrats! When’s the wedding?
Justin: A$$hole.
PWC: Wha…?
GNAT – love this!!! How DARE you ask?
LOL This is hilarious. And true.
lol
we got started getting that question several hours after we got engaged. i can’t imagine dragging that out for 2+ years. haha
Haha. The nerve of some people!
The HUM OF PRESSURE! LOVE CREATES EXPANSION! …hipster poetry, which uses words but somehow expresses no meaning. He should have just said, “eyeliner” at the end. It wouldn’t have given or taken away any more meaning to his thoughts.
+1
hipster word salad. 🙂
Oh right onnnnn
Like, there’s never a leg so short it won’t reach the ground……dig?
😉
Yeah this is devastatingly accurate :D. I love the way you put your finger on these people’s pretensions and go ‘POP!’
lol exactly, it so bizarre that he takes issue with the wedding question
When they got engaged I did believe there would be a marriage by now.
over a year later i’m wondering if Justin just proposed because it’s what Aniston wanted. Justin is getting such a boost though. He’s doing great and now this talk?
Or is this just to stir the pot for more pr?
He’s a rebel hipster who doesn’t play by your rules. He’s cooler than cool, hipper than hip, and no hum will defeat him. He’s expanding, man. Don’t apply intent to engagements that he hasn’t applied to either engagements or the concept of time. It’s all trippy, dude, I’m happy right now, don’t kill my buzz. The engagement is enriching my professional profile, don’t apply any standards of your traditional expectations of what it means.
Plus eyeliner.
@GoodNamesAllTaken, snorting!
“plus eyeliner”…I *DIE*.
Yep. I could understand his response if he and Aniston hadn’t done those People Magazine covers and interviews and even gone on talk shows such as Chelsea Lately to talk *specifically* about how far along they are in planning the wedding and the details. You can’t use the media for publicity and talk about planning details, guests, bridesmaids etc and THEN all of a sudden get upset when people ask you a year or so later how its coming along.
EXACTLY, Sal. I get that some people’s ideas of how long an engagement should be, varies. For me, unless there’s something that’s truly holding the wedding off—coughdoublemastectomycough–then I think that it should be within like a year. Just my personal opinion. Even then, I get that people are different. But they–the Aniston-Theroux merger opened the discussion with those PEOPLE covers about the wedding.
And what’s also rather ironic is that when Justin was asked about marrying Jennifer at his premiere for The Leftovers, he said he had ‘hot feet’…..meaning he couldn’t wait to marry her. Dude isn’t. A wedding is not happening. I was looking at one of Justin’s fan pages for pap photos yesterday–it seems to me that every time he and Jennifer are seen out in public (premieres, dinner, on set), he’s only there for a few days, and then he goes right back to NYC.
Exactly, GoodNames. As someone who only had a three-month engagement, I don’t see the point of waiting years to get married. An engagement should mean you’re ready to tie the knot right now but just need a little time to plan the wedding. Heck, I didn’t even want a wedding, but my husband did so…
Rosebud, er, I meant, eyeliner.
LMAO
Has he ever being asked about if he wants to have kids in an interview?
No, because he can still have them when he’s 90 like Julio Iglesias’ Dad. For women there is a definite time when it’s too late.
Julio is the dad, Enrique is the son.
you need to read about Julio Iglesias Sr. M.D. (1915-2005) he had a posthumous child in 2005 or 2006.
Julio Iglesias is like him, but the father outdid his son.
No because the Hollywood Press mostly harasses women with questions about having children, whether they are 20 or 50+ women get asked the baby question.
I’ve seen talkshow host ask actresses in their 50s and 60s even do they want children, if the woman says no the host or hosts says well you can adopt. Hollywood asking women about their desire or non desire for children has become tiresome. Imo
Posturing nincompoop and all-round blatherer.
Edit: just read GNAT’s comment….spot ON! Exactly, get a clue, JT/A
I love your comment too.
Me, too! It was much more exciting and descriptive!
Why do they even need to marry? Other than the publicity what purpose would it serve? If I were JA’s bff I would advise her not to get married. She has a lot more to lose than Justin does if they were to divorce.
It’s fine if they don’t marry. The point everyone is making is that an engagement is a commitment to marry – full stop. If you’re not going to do that, just date each other, and stop complaining about “pressure.”
A baby, on the other hand, would be a goldmine. Hello Cosmopolitan IN Touch Out of Whack People – the covers, the coverage, the clothes!
Alex, I’ll take ‘things petulant men- boys say for a thousand’.
Though I did really enjoy The Leftovers.
He’s really great in The Leftovers.
I won’t marry on your time frame, but I am happy to use the engagement and constant questions to promote my projects. At least he owns it??
Justin looks like a sleazy stockbroker in these pictures.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that a prenup could be involved….
I was engaged for four years before I got married.
But were you in your 40s at the time?
Good for them. Now what I don’t get is the reason they rush to announced thier engagement the next morning after they got engaged. Why not keep it on the DL for a while if ther was no rush.
What about the People interview that came out around the time of the Oscers where they/Jen give all that wedding info and how it was going happen in the Spring, the flowers and so on, what was the point of that?
@Candy Love, who wrote: “What about the People interview that came out around the time of the Oscers where they/Jen give all that wedding info and how it was going happen in the Spring, the flowers and so on, what was the point of that?”
The point of that (and hijacking the annual “People” magazine Oscar Awards edition) is it happened to be the weekend the Jolie-Pitts were rumored to be getting married in France. That was a straight up PR move, which is why I–for one–believe the entire engagement is a PR ploy. I would really, REALLY love for these two crazy kids to get married and finally sever all ties from the Jolie-Pitts, but I just don’t think it will ever happen.
They could have kept it on the down low for a while. Wasn’t it 3 weeks before she started wearing her ring, after the announcement?
This seals it – Justin is now a full fledged member of the hypocrital and fame hungry club run by Jennifer and her agent Huvane.
Just a little advice justin – if you don’t want people to ask you them don’t announce your engagement and how you proposed to the world. Don’t give magazine interview after interview talking about the wedding. Better yet don’t get freaking engaged if you don’t want to get married.
PS: can his agent stop with his credentials mentioning? He co write tropic Thunder with 6 other people, his other two movies were universally panned and now he is acting in a tv show after having claimed in the past that only desperate and talentless people will ever do tv.
and now he is acting in a tv show after having claimed in the past that only desperate and talentless people will ever do tv.
Do you have a specific quote on that because this keeps popping up and I know he has been in at least 3 TV shows (SFU and The District – older shows pre PRE Aniston and more recently Parks and Rec also pre-Aniston?). The only one I found was this:
If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I’d probably hang myself.
Which is not the same as what you refer to. I see this as signing up to be a big part part of a show that you know is meant to go on for at least 5 seasons because it’s generic crap that people will eat up. His TV work is not really geared towards mainstream public imo.
As for the first part of your comment: celebs gonna celeb. Are you really surprised a celeb turns out to be a hypocrite? I’m sure there are many other celebrities that are hypocrites that don’t have Huvane as their agent.
Artemis, good luck getting an answer.
I was also surprised that he’d do a TV show after saying something so extreme (and also because his “fiancee” was on one, but I digress…) so I decided to do a little searching. After not finding anything but what you found (about the 7 year contract), I also asked…I’m still waiting, and she’s still claiming that he said that.
I unabashedly love The Leftovers. And he’s amazing in it.
Could give two licks about him and Aniston, but I am totally with you on The Leftovers.
You and I can just hang out in this little corner to keep safe. Lol
Yeah–get married, don’t get married, whatever. But give me more “Leftovers”.
Love the Leftovers and his performance is mint.
Loving The Leftovers, just getting to see it . Love it, he’s great in it.
Love created a huge expansion, I guess, with his 13 year (?) relationship with Heidi, so he needed to contract a bit. Can’t forget the comments he made several years ago about actors like Tom Hanks who we can’t take seriously in roles because he’s allowed himself to become “famous” and we know too much about their personal lives. Who is Theroux kidding? Bag o’ douche water.
Agreed. I mean, TOM HANKS, of all people? An innocuous guy who is funny, nice, keeps his head down, stays out of controversy, doesn’t harm anyone? That’s when I knew that Theroux is just TRASH. You have to be pretty subhuman imo to attack Tom Hanks, of all people. 🙁 Especially when he could have justifiably attacked many other male actors. He strayed into douche territory there, and he never left. He has more sticks up his arse than a forest.
“He has more sticks up his arse than a forest. ”
That is hilarious! Not heard that one before. Must keep it for future use. Sal you come off as one angry person but you do manage to make me laugh with some of your comments.
“An innocuous guy who is funny, nice, keeps his head down, stays out of controversy, doesn’t harm anyone…”
…and one who actually DID marry his mistress.
funny, that.
I know the answer to this one. HE’S NEVER MARRYING HER! EVER!
I think the engagement may have been fake anyway. PR for some reason. JMO
Lets be honest; he is not going to marry her. Full stop. He is a cheating douche, Aniston is his mere mistress; rarely do men marry the mistress.
well, i don’t know, brad FINALLY did.
Bzzzzz wrong! Brad never had a mistress.
Ladies should beware chaps who marry their ‘mistresses’. (And NO, I do not count La Jolie among that regiment):
As Sir James Goldsmith once said (and he would have known!) ‘When a man marries his mistress he creates a vacancy”.
My brother has been with his girlfriend for twenty-five years and they are getting married in the spring. What do you have to say about that Sal? Like maybe you’re wrong?
That’s so sweet. I had a cousin who was engaged for 8 yrs and finally they married, so it does happen.
One wishes in cases like this that the entire world would take him at his word and pay no more attention to him than what he merits on his own as a moderately successful actor and writer which is to say just about no attention at all.
I don’t care if he marries her next week, next month, next year, or never. I simply cannot imagine two more tiresome people.
I loathe people who play victim. If you propose to someone, you plan to marry the person. Otherwise, why bother? And to make a huge fuss over the engagement and then get annoyed…. I don’t like this guy.
He strung the last girlfriend along for what, 15 years or so? He is NEVER going to marry Jen, he just gave her a ring to stop her from saying “where is this relationship going”.
He was parading himself around in the news not that long ago how both of them have “Hot Feet”.
I used to say that “if Aniston’s lips are moving, she’s lying”, and now I can add him to the mix.
They’re both pathetic and deserve one another.
I agree with you ann, especially regarding JA. She has always been about her career and PR and I wouldn’t be surprised if she was using Justin and the engagement for positive press.
Its obvious that the stylist doesn’t like him which could indicate that either Justin Theroux or Jennifer Aniston (if she is the one who pays for his maintenance) is not a good tipper. It is simply a must to treat and tip these people well since they are the landscapers of hollywood.
I have always gotten a icky vibe from him. He got with Jen when no one knew him, now he’s got some choices he’s thinking maybe he can do better than her. IMO.
he is quite unfortunate looking.
Oh god he is isn’t he. He is quite repulsive and scary looking.
He didn’t like the pre-nup deal. Jen isn’t going to share. So why bother, he’s thinking. If Jen wanted to marry him without a pre-nup, bam, he’s running down that aisle.
I don’t think Jen is in any hurry either. She’s the one with the bank. She’s been married. She knows it’s not always happily ever after and she has serious money to lose. They aren’t having kids. They probably discussed the pre-nup a little and it got uncomfortable and both just found it easier not to deal with it right now. He seems happy in his relationship, …. for now.
This makes the most sense to me. Pre-nip discussions were souring so they’re just keeping with the status quo for now.
Did Jen get engaged for PR?
I wonder if the engagement was or is real?
Seems like the arrangement suits him fine. Why buy the cow when you can get the moo-lah for free? But yeah — it’s totally disingenuous to issue press statements about your Big Fat Engagement and allow the taking of many “In Luuurve” photos and then get prickly when two years down the line with no date set you’re asked what’s the dealio……
Jennifer run girl. Don’t know about this guy. Some people stay engaged for 5 years before they marry, maybe they are that type. If they don’t marry in the next two years it won’t happen. They live apart most of the time maybe that’s working for them. Or since “someone like you” got married recently there is no need to pretend she’s happy with this guy anymore and will be moving on. I always got lesbian vibes from jennifer, nothing wrong with that but that’s the feeling I get from her and her close friends. They are friends with benefits that have power in Hollywood but don’t think they being bi would fly with some of their fan base.
I do no think JA EVER wanted kids. It’s so lucky Angelina came along for Brad as he loves children.
Funny you should mention that since I was just thinking how Brad fell under that whole don’t marry your mistress because all you do is create a vacancy thing. But he loves children, so he’s probably exempt.
I respect them for not having a last minute wedding in order to steal somebody else’s thunder
He’s besties with Uncle Terry – that alone is enough reason to wear a hazmat suit around him.
He seems like someone who is averse to marriage and is probably only engaged to Aniston because 1) they are in the public eye and 2) in order to remain Aniston’s boy toy he agreed to at least put an (engagement) ring on it. Neither Aniston or Theroux seem like people who want to have children, but I believe that Aniston absolutely wants (or wanted) to get married again. Theroux was with Heidi Bivens for 14 years and I can see him doing the same with Aniston. This makes sense and they are probably better off not getting married if Theroux is a commitment phobe and doesn’t plan on sticking around 4 life. Theroux and Aniston will likely stay together for a long time, but the relationship will eventually sour as many relationships do, and Theroux will be ready to cut ties without a messy divorce.
Fake couple ,all for pr. Lainey said Jennifer had found someone willing to play the game. This is the real ( Brand) not real all PR.
Justin gave Jennifer a promise ring. As long as my show is on TV, I promise to play your boyfriend. LOL
I’m one of those people that don’t believe in all this they got engaged for PR.. I think they got engaged very quickly. But I thing they were seeing each other longer than we knew,
I will say that He is enjoying the attention. I don’t care if he has been around for years. We didn’t see him on mag covers and didn’t see him doing loads of interviews. So yes he has gotten a lot of attention from this relationship and being in the shadow of her spotlight. He is being asked what he thinks. His picture is being taken. He gets invited on shows that he has never been invited to; despite his “long friendship” with some of these people. He is loving every minute of it. You can see it. He seems to have a lot of Bravado now.
Time will tell how he handles it all and how it changes him or not. Fame is tough and while Jennifer has been famous for a long time, he is just getting a taste. Again we will see how it works with or against their relationship.
I never liked ty his dude and never even heard of him until Jen made him relevant. He comes off as a user and I doubt they will ever marry each other.
In regards to the success of American shows overseas, the general rule is if a show is mega succesful over there it’s likely to be mega succesful everywhere else, but it’s different when it comes to comedy. Friends is super popular here, but most of the other sitcoms are just mildly succesful (they do well, but not as well as in the USA).
Idk many people who watch The Leftovers, but Lost was a huge sensation here too, so there’s that.
Comedy is heavily idiomatic and a lot of it gets lost in translation.
This guy who looks so sexy on that HBO show takes the absolute worst pictures. It’s like 2 different people.
Quite frankly, I don’t get the marrying vibe from Aniston. Why should she? She’s independently wealthy, does whatever she wants, seems to have a group of friends, goes on vacation a lot, has stuff to do…and presumably gets her needs satisfied one way or the other, so ,within the context of living a good Hollywood/California life and working in showbiz, why get married? Why SHOULD she share her wealth with someone else if she doesn’t want to? Why SHOULD she marry? Why can’t she just live her life, have sexual partners as she sees fit, and just live her life? (I think I just answered my own question: marriage=buy-in from the minivan majority?). I just find it weird this interest in whether she’s truly engaged or wants to be married or not. She can do whatever she wants; if she wanted to be married, she’d be married. This “relationship” is imo business arrangement for convenience for both parties and eventually, the arrangement will be up. No big deal. It’s show biz, it’s her life. Not to mention, she’s come from a broken home, and I think her marriage to Pitt was more about wanting an ideal than about the reality (that maybe they just weren’t that compatible over the long term). I really do think Aniston has figured things out for herself and is exactly where she wants to be now and all this other stuff is just show biz hoopla. That said, I’m not sure that it’s really a wise business decision, but oh well.
+1
Why get engaged to begain with then? She could have done all that with out getting engaged.
I think you’re safe to leave the headline at: Justin Theroux won’t marry Jennifer Aniston.
That middle photo of him is hilarious. He looks like he is trying to hold in a fart.
Ha but he’ll marry the next girl he dates after Manniston within 6 months like Vince did afterwards. Hilarious. What he means is “I won’t marry Jennifer Anniston.”
As as producer Scott Stuber did (marrying Molly Sims after he dated Jennifer Aniston).
How come JenHens never talk about how Jen broke up Christopher Gartin’s 10 year marriage in 2010? A marriage to which she was very good friends to both people. She also broke up Justin’s relationship with Heidi, another 10yr relationship. I get a real kick out of how JenHen’s want to make her out to be America’s sweetheart and such a victim.
She’s plays dirty like any other broad who works it to get what she wants, trouble is other women’s men is usually what she wants. I truly think this is why no one marries her. Her relationships start out on a bad foot.
the funny part was that justin was gushing abt jennifer saying that he had hot feet and couldnt wait to marry her and now completely different storyline. it is so annoying really – hard to keep track – couldnt they be more considerate – and get hitched please??? at least for my sake.