People Magazine parceled out their exclusive interview with Jennifer Aniston. Part 1 was “Miss Havisham discusses how her absentee fiance will wear a wedding ring.” Part 2 is “Mama’s got shill for all of her contracts.” Like every other interview Aniston has done in the past four months, the shilling is constant, ceaseless and annoying. So here are Aniston’s thoughts on tanning, skincare, water, etc:
She’s wearing less makeup these days: “I’m less attached to [makeup] now. And Justin [Theroux] loves me without. He likes it when I smoke up my eyes!”
(Smart)water: “I drink water endlessly. Like five [bottles] a day. Now it’s just such habit. There are so many lazy water drinkers!”
She stopped tanning: “I gave myself a sun-tanning intervention a few years ago, where I was basically saying, ‘Let’s just quit while we’re ahead.’ I was not great as a kid with sunscreen. That’s one of my big regrets. Now I use Aveeno Positively Radiant Daily Moisturizer SPF 15.”
Feeling good at any age: “We’re going to feel good about ourselves if we see another woman who is 50 and rocking it. If society is telling you to sit it out after 40, you diminish yourself. Believe what you feel. If you feel crappy about yourself, it’s going to show.”
I can’t believe she didn’t mention her hair! God, that will probably be Part 3 of People’s exclusive, I’m sure. As for this stuff… I’m going to need to see the receipts of Jennifer’s “sun-tanning intervention.” Granted, she hasn’t been on a constant vacation cycle in Cabo lately, but I’m almost positive that she’s still laying out in the sun and getting tan the old fashioned way. As for seeing a 50-year-old woman “rocking it” – that’s how I feel about women like Helen Mirren, women who own their age AND speak with substance about more than their hair.
Meanwhile, some of us have been wondering why Aniston seems to be doing all of these interviews to promote nothing more than her advertising contracts. Doesn’t she have films coming up? Why doesn’t this year’s #1 Oscar-snubbed have more offers? Well, OK! Magazine (I know, I know, but stay with me) says that Jennifer is really worried because the scripts aren’t coming in. A source says:
“She’s desperate to land the lead in another drama. She wants to be on that podium next awards season, but with no offers coming in, she’s starting to fear it may not happen. She knows that there are edgy roles out there, and she’d be willing to fund an indie film in order to get one. But at the same time, Jen would much rather be approach to star in someone else’s project. She doesn’t want anyone thinking that she’s buying her success.”
During the Oscar season, I did wonder if Jennifer’s campaign was going to blow up in her face long-term. Like, she really, really wanted an Oscar nomination, to the point where she paid an Oscar-campaign consultant a lot of money to “coach” her. She came across as a little bit desperate AND like she was trying to “game” the system with what turned out to be a decent-but-not-great performance in a film no one saw or cared to see. The “punishment” was that Aniston didn’t get an Oscar nomination. But is she being punished long-term by producers who don’t want any part of her self-promoting nonsense? Or is it more of a case of…well, Hollywood just doesn’t want to hire a 47 year old woman for many roles at all?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News.
SPF 15? I can see my dermatologist shaking his head now.
That is what I thought. That is like wearing nothing, even if it is Aveeno……. To get the shade she is in that top photo she must be using fake tanner then or she needs a higher SPF….Oy Vey!!
@Jen2, who wrote: “To get the shade she is in that top photo she must be using fake tanner then or she needs a higher SPF….Oy Vey!!”
She ‘does’ spray tan, and admitted it in a print interview I actually just ran across yesterday. Hopefully, someone has posted it down stream. She seems to have gotten Justin into spray tanning as well.
I use Aveeno, but I use the SPF 30 kind. I do well with 30, but 15 just doesn’t do the trick.
That was my exact same immediate thought. 15 is not enough. I had a little cancerous spot removed two years ago. Dermatologist said to use a minimum of SPF 30.
Actually if it’s a truly well-formulated sunscreen SPF15 is just fine. However, the vast, vast, VAST majority of sunblocks/screens are severely lacking in any UV blocking ingredients. You can wear a cheap SPF50 and get more damaging rays than a well-made, UV ray blocking sunscreen with tons of titanium dioxide in it. Sadly, the blockage of UV rays is not regulated at all! SPF only conisders it’s abilities to block burning UB rays which as we know aren’t the cancer causing ones.
How can you tell if you’re getting a good one? What should I look for ?
I have yet to find a sunscreen of SPF15 that prevents me from burning with even minimal sun exposure.
Snowflake,
Try 50 SPF made with natural ingredients, specifically, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. Use the the same SPF as your age up to 50.
The “standard” ingredient oxybenzone was once used to make pesticides (DDT) and is a hormone disruptor so it should be avoided.
A lot of people think natural ingredients make your skin look chalky, but, actually, they act the same way a skin primer does while protecting your skin.
Try Ology or store brands or sunscreen for babies/children at any drugstore.
Good luck!
Her approach to her lack of scripts is writ large in the last paragraph of that article.
She wants to fund an indie, but she wants producers to approach her. Way to uphold the star studio system Jen.
I guess she thinks her buddies Reece Witherspoon or Sandra Bullock bought their way into good films since they source and produce many of their recent films.
She’s such an idjit if she thinks sitting at home waiting for the phone to ring is the way to go about this one.
I suspect she is making lots and lots and lots of calls, in between drinking all that water and running to the bathroom.
LOL
LOL!
It’s interesting that you mention Witherspoon and Bullock because I immediately thought “Yeah, they’ve done some similar movies in the past but …. those two can act and have never relied solely on comedy.” I think that’s the problem for Aniston coupled with the fact that she’s nearing 50. Because those romantic comedy parts are just not rolling in anymore (which is ridiculous, why would a woman her age not have a romantic life?) but she also missed the window to build herself up as a serious actress.
Sandra and Reece started producing a long time ago. They produced some of their own studio romcoms AND they’ve produced their own Indies. Heck all the ex- Friends’ cast aren’t sitting around waiting for the phone to ring. They are actively sourcing and producing their own scripts/shows.
One would think that with her buddies doing this, something would rub off on Jen.
Jen doesn’t come across as someone who is curious, even in her acting. She doesn’t challenge herself in any way. Producers aren’t going to approach her unless they’ve written a film that they think works with her brand.
Despite the hoopla of her recent awards season push, when she switched back to old Jen talking points and presentation in the midst of the season, I realised she wasn’t serious about a career change.
I like Bullock, but I think she sort of lucked out with the Oscar Win. The Blind Side wasn’t that good. She’s had upward momentum again since then, but I was surprised she won an Oscar for that performance.
I think Bullock is kind of similar to Aniston acting-wise, but smarter with her career and how she handles her PR.
@ LAK: Didn’t Aniston start a production company with Brad Pitt? Or am I confused? Was that another business?
It’s true that this is what she comes across as but I do believe she simply missed her window. Remember 15 years ago? She was the cute one, the funny one, the pretty one, she was Rachel. Basically. And then she was the one with the hair and the crazy body. I’m not sure she really thought ahead and realized that she needed to establish herself as something other than the cute funny one with the body. Maybe she didn’t/doesn’t care but maybe she also thought she could ride that wave forever? Her career is curious to me. You can tell with the other two that they thought ahead, that they knew what was coming. We’ll see how long Reese can do the romcoms. And if that goes, she has that lifestyle thing going.
perplexed
It’s often said and backed up (though not the rule) many actors that win an Oscar did not win for the role/movie nominated. Maybe there were 2 roles that were worthy, but only 1 could win. Down the line with steady work and playing the game the person who didn’t win will win. Even if it’s not for a stellar role. They’ve proven they should win.
And Bullock has proven herself a great actress. You can display solid acting ability without doing thriller/dramas.
And agree on the PR. Her PR is great. Anistons needs so much help, but there’s much about her she refuses to update. She’s her own worst enemy.
I think my issue with Bullock, is that while I enjoy her acting, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a performance from her where I’d say to myself “That deserves an Oscar!” I don’t think she’s a bad actress, but I don’t thinks she’s ever been as good as the usual suspects who get nominated either. So I don’t think Oscar for The Blind Side was even a make-up Oscar like it might be for someone like Kate Winslet.
I do think she brings in the money though, and I can see why they wanted to reward her for that.
Perplexed: Sandra’s oscar was probably for body of work rather than that particular film. She received good notices in CRASH which showed that she was better than her romcom history. And she built on those good notices.
Littlemissnaughty: Jen Aniston set up (or was a shareholder in) Plan B with Brad etc, and Brad got the company in the divorce. IIRC, she kept one or two of the vehicles that had been planned, but don’t remember which ones.
She opened her own company soon after the divorce with ‘The Goree Girls’ as the first announced project. That hasn’t gone anywhere.
A few years ago she made noises about directing, but so far the short film made for TV, FIVE, in combination with other directors is as far as that ambition went.
I quite agree with your assessment of the other friends’ cast. I think CC had the benefit of hindsight since she’s been in Hollywood for much longer than the other cast members and been intermittently successful.
Lisa has always been a smart cookie, but she was also a late starter. She was 30yrs old at the beginning of friends and less swayed by the fame aspect of the job.
@Littlemiss: that was Plan B, which is still Brad’s company. He got it in the divorce, but just going off of how much they’ve both produced over the last 10 years it appears that she didn’t have a ton of interest even then.
Does anyone remember when he optioned A Mighty Heart supposedly for her?
@littlemissnaughty says:
Brad, Brad Grey and Jennifer started Plan B. Actually, Brad Grey, who left to become President of Paramount, went to Brad, as he was one of his managers and owned the biggest talent, management agency in HW, Brillstein-Grey, to start a production company.
Jennifer was only an equity partner, not a full partner. They did option scripts for her. Quite a few. But, it was up to her and one of her best friend’s, Kristin Hahn to get them up and made. Kristin Hahn is her producing partner at her/their production company Echo Films, now.
Grey left to become President of Paramount pictures in late 2004. Brad and Jennifer separated.
At the time, Brad began paying the salaries of his producing partners and others, at Plan B out of his own pocket. Dede Gardner, the President of Plan B and Jeremy Kliener who is now co-president, along with others.
In June of 2005, Brad became sole owner of Plan B. Jennifer was no longer part of the company. He moved Plan B to Paramount from WB. Brad said of Plan B in 2006, that it was a child of a bitter divorce.
He gave her the movies that the company had optioned for her. I think it was 4-6, as part of the settlement to remove her from the company. Not one of those movies got made. She and Hahn hadn’t done much to develop them when they were both with Plan B.
Kristin did get two EP credits with Plan B. One for The Departed, which went on to win the Oscar for Best Pic and The Time Traveler’s Wife. Jennifer never got a producing or EP credit for any Plan B films that came from WB. She would have, if she’d done the work on one as a Producer or an EP.
What I always found interesting, was when Brad took Plan B to Paramount. WB’s didn’t offer Jennifer a production deal. Friends was a WB production.
She and Hahn started Echo Films 3 years later and had a first look deal with Universal and Echo Films had optioned, something like 7-9 properties, at the time. None of those films have been made and it seems she let the options all run out on those. Universal optioned one or two properties for them and those never got made. When the 3 year deal expired with Universal, Universal chose not to renew their deal.
She and Hahn through their production company have never gotten a movie made from the get go. They’ve become producers or EP’s on movies that were brought to them. The Switch, Management, the two Lifetime movies, Life of Crime and Cake.
Her producing partner got a movie, Tumble Weed made with Jason Sudekis. She did it outside of Echo Films. And she’s started her own production company. She says she’s still part of Echo Films, but, it seems to me, why can’t she make the movies she writes and wants to direct at Echo Films. And it also seems that Echo Films is not doing anything.
Plan B, on the other hand, is on fire under Brad, Dede and Jeremy’s hand. They work very, very well as a team. Jennifer says that she left Plan B because it became a bigger entity than she signed up for. The truth of the matter is, she got the boot by Brad. She was not a full partner, she was an equity partner. He bought out her monetary contribution. Gave her the movies they’d bought for her. Moved the company to Paramount, pretty much cutting her right out, legally.
The difference between the two companies is astronomical and shows she’s not much good as a producer. She didn’t bring anything to the table, at all, at Plan B and she’s not doing anything of real note at her Echo Films.
Bridget: I remember part of the alleged divorce wrangling around Plan B was about whether or not Jen would keep some of the optioned vehicles, one of which was A MIGHTY HEART.
To use her words movie producing and directing lazy.
A mighty heart was never meant for Jennifer – full stop.
Marianne Pearl herself confirmed that Brad was the one who fought for the movie but Angelina was the one who made her give the movie to Plan B. Marianne is now one of Angelina’s best friends.
As someone mentioned above – Jennifer had zero to do with Plan B except as a equity partner. It was Brad’s baby and Brad is the one who has single handedly turned it into one of the most admired, respected and powerful production company in Hollywood.
Jennifer fought for the scripts but only got the ones she thought will be useful for herself. Again showing that despite being in the industry for 2 decades – she has developed no experiences to pick a good script.
Angellina didn’t make Marianne give Brad A Mighty Heart. The movie was optioned by Plan B long before Brad met Angelina. Before Angelina and Marianne met. Brad/Plan B bought the rights to the book in 2003. Where in that does Angelina factor into that?
Marianne sold Brad/Plan B the rights because he was the only one that she met with who actually read the book. It showed her that he cared about the material and the story.
Jennifer once said that she would like to think she could play Marianne. Brad said, during that same time, that hell no. neither one of them would be in the movie. Plan B was producing it. That was it.
Marianne and Angelina met before Brad and Angelina met. Became friends.
Angelina didn’t even know that the reason Marianne sold Brad the rights was because he was the one that read the book. She was blown away that Brad, of all of the studios vying for it, was the only one that read the book. It was absurd to her that the others didn’t.
Brad shot Jennifer down, while they were still married.
When it came out that Angelina was going to play Marianne. A rep for Plan B came out and said, the only involvement of Jennifer’s with the movie, had been she was part of Plan B, when Plan B optioned the book. She was never going to play Marianne Pearl.
A Mighty Heart pre-dated the Jolie Pitt relationship, and at the time it was optioned it was supposedly going to be a vehicle for Aniston. Now, when the movie was actually made Aniston was out of the picture and of course Angelina and Marianne became quite close.
@jerry: its not uncommon at all for producers to try to option material they haven’t even read. Some writers talk about inserting wildly inappropriate scenes into screenplays just to see if anyone actually read it.
Completely agree – Jennifer is an idiot who clearly thinks things should come to her and not the other way around.
Reese, Sandra, Charlize,Angelina, Drew and many more women have to guts to say – we are tired of waiting and instead wants to be proactive. If wonderful scripts don’t come to us – we go to them. And this approach has worked as we all know.
She directed a lifetime movie. I think there were 4 actresses total directing 4 seperate films about women and cancer. Demi was one… Aniston’s was kind of awful.
She lost whatever share she had in Plan B with the divorce. She does have a production company of her own but she seems to have some sort of intense aversion to actually doing anything noteworthy with it. Thank god she didn’t get to keep a mighty heart. It would never have gotten made, and I really really like that movie (great leading performance from Angie too).
She would never have gotten the movie because Marianne frankly said that she only signed on because of Brad and only felt happy when Angelina came onboard.
That would have made for bad optics but probably didnt have a ton of influence on the deal as the book’s right’s had already been sold, and that doesn’t usually include casting approval. Now, obviously we know that Aniston isn’t all that interested in getting movies made so it’s a moot point – she was never going to fight for A Mighty Heart anyhow.
She should go back to tv for awhile, get people to like her again.
Yes!!!!
Can’t see her doing that. Probably thinks she’s above it at this point, but it would be a good idea. She has visions of grandeur standing on that podium to accept a golden little man but that likely will never happen. Just don’t see it.
Bigger and better actors than she have returned to tv. I think she doesn’t want the hard work and long hours that tv requires, and considering that she doesn’t need the money, I’m not sure that I blame her. She has worked a lot, so maybe she’s just taking time off. I agree with everyone above that she needs to fund her own projects and find something interesting. She doesn’t strike me as very interested in anything, though. She’s someone who eats the same thing daily, has never changed her look, goes on the same vacations, and lasted all of 5 minutes in NY. She doesn’t strike me as someone who would venture out on her own, but I would love to be proven wrong!
Jennifer is not an actor by its true meaning.
She can play a role, she can fit into the ensemble cast (as so many others), but she doesn’t have the passion for acting and it shows.
She is not stupid and she probably realizes it herself as well. But for some reason she has not accepted it. And I agree with the comments saying she is too lazy for TV. It takes a lot of work (especially being a mediocre actor) to make it in quality TV and she doesn’t have it in her
She should definitely go back to TV, maybe do a Netflix series. People would watch it if it is a great script/idea. Just look at Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in Grace & Frankie (which I cannot wait for the next season).
She’s far more suited to TV than movies, but what I really wish is that she’d give up acting all together, and concentrate on real estate. It’s obvious she has a talent for flipping houses – she should do it full time.
I feel like this is a backdoor deal, made by the sponsors, paying to have these ‘interviews’ in magazines. Jen gets paid, the magazine gets paid, and the sponsors can pretend it’s not an ad, but unsolicited advice from a celebrity. Good for Jen for taking the money as she can get it, but it WILL harm her chances in being taken seriously as an actress in the future because, now, she comes across as an unrelenting shameless shill.
I agree with this. She’s overexposed with all the endorsement deals.
Do you think they have to pay taxes for these type of ads/ infomercials?
No idea. Maybe there is some sot of bulk agreement, not broken down per interview/promo, to get around it?
Punishment? More like the producers in Hollywood don’t give a crab about her. When have you ever read about a well known company, director, actor/actress saying that they want to produce/direct/act with Jennifer?
About the makeup thing – so Justin likes her makeup free but also likes her smokey eyes? Smokey eyes is classified as makeup right or am I missing something?
5 bottles a day – not a supporter of the environment is she?
I do think she has laid of the tan because she looks less baked these days. But I think it already too late because she confessed never to have used sun screen and her skin is damaged – just see her pictures…
PS: Part 3 of the interview is going to about the ex dead boyfriend is going to be reincarnated as her child.
I’ve read a couple of Helen Mirren interviews. Maybe she’s substantial as a person, I don’t know, but she’s really not that articulate when it comes to talking about something more than her body, looks, or heels. Is it the English accent that fools people? When she expounds on a subject, her thought process winds up convoluted like Jeremy Irons.
Listen, you can make the case that any woman over the age of 30 in Hollywood is going to struggle to find good scripts. but in JA case, she’s just not that good of an actress. I honestly think she would be better suited finding a TV series at this point.
And the whole “Justin loves me without makeup” bugs. I’m not sure why she feels the need to point that out.
But during cake she felt empowered and scared about going without makeup and blah blah….never mind another contradiction.
I know she shills for Aveeno but can she ever comment on anything without mentioning them? Her hair and Aveeno it’s either or.
I swear they must pay her every time she mentions their name, cause it’s constant!!
Is the way she breaks it down I would say aveeno sunblock but she’s like I use aveeno spf 15 sunblock. Aveeno shower gel to her is aveeno peach and vitamin x with the tears of a bee. Like I can read Jen. Do you want me to try an aveeno of my choice or do you want me to get the one with peaches and vitamins x with the tears of a bee? Get a vitamin water or the 64oz vitamin water. Living proof shampo or the living proof oatmeal and rosemary scented one..that’s what annoying about the whole thing.
omg
thank you for the tears of a bee
my cat ran away from the laughter
And she always has to mention Justin at least once. Usually something about what he likes about her. My favorite was something about how women should feel their worth all on their own … And in the same sentence how she feels beautiful because: Justin.
I loved her on Friends and in She’s The One
But truth be told she’s just not an A level actor!
I’m not suggesting she sit back and enjoy her money away from the spotlight- or that she do a lifestyle brand or whatever- but she needs to get real about what she’s great at:
In my book that’s situational comedy and small ensembles. I say- GO BACK TO TV.
Get over your “movie star self” and get real girl. Go to TV and thrive if the work is what you want.
But as I see it, she’s NEVER been happy with her career. She’s ALWAYS wanted more than what she had even when she was at the top of the heap.
When she did Bruce Almoghty and Along Came Polly she wanted to be taken seriously. It’s like- girl! You’re not THAT good! And you are certainly not IRREPLACABLE!
But ugh she just seems to want more more more. And in that case, why not have Justin write her a script? He’s a great writer (or at least a prolific one)!
Also had to have at the smokey eyes comment- did she mean stoned eyes? Wink wink
She’s a supporting not a lead actress. She should stick to ensemble casts and supporting roles.
I agree. She is an ensemble actor. If she had stuck with her original nose, hair, etc. she could land some character-actor parts, but she has homogenized herself.
My favorite movie of Jen’s is early in her career, Object of My Affection. She was really good in it, and she and Paul Rudd were excellent together in it.
She is (almost) fascinatingly shallow. The more she tries to present this cool, confident, laid back, busy, on-top-of-it persona, the more screamingly evident her lack of focus and direction is. She makes me tired just reading about her.
I think what’s missing is passion. She just doesn’t seem to be passionate about anything that counts. You can’t fake passion.
She’s just not that talented.
She is no tTna Fey or Amy Poler or Melissa McCarthy (a women opened a no 1 film last week-end, yeah!) or Drew. She’s not even a Reece or a Sandra or an Anna Faris.
All that water finds it’s level.
+10000. Well said, I agree with you.
@LAK – “Jen doesn’t come across as someone who is curious, even in her acting. She doesn’t challenge herself in any way.”
Spot on. ‘ Lack of curiousity’ also hits the ‘passionless’ spot I mentioned earlier. As an example, I remember her saying in some interview ages ago that she’d love to travel the world and see all the amazing places it has to offer when she’s less busy and has time. Well, she has time (not to mention money) in bucketloads and could easily take off for a year… but she doesn’t.
It’s like the idea is interesting to her but actually doing it would be too much effort. She seems to have no get-up-and-go, no sense of adventure, talks the talk but really just wants to stay in her in her own small, safe, unchallenging world.
Drinking Smartwater, inspired, Gawd ‘elp us, by the clouds.
So? Not everyone is a deep thinker and ambitious.
Yes most are not ambitious nor great thinkers but most of them also dont go around and claiming to be ambitious and great thinkers.
Jennifer will always only talk the talk and never walk the walk.
I’ve never seen Jennifer Aniston claim to be a great thinker.
She’s probably implied her ambition in terms of wanting to move beyond “Friends”, but she’s always struck me as staying in her lane when it comes to sharing her thoughts. She may be inarticulate, but she doesn’t claim to be brighter and more articulate than she is like Natalie Portman does when she miserably fails in trying to make analogies and comparisons that other people have to explain what she really meant.
@perplexed
She has stated explicitly a desire to get into directing and producing, as well as saying explicitly that she wants to be taken more seriously as an actress, do more roles in the vein of Cake, and reinvent her career (this was as recent has her Oscar campaign). As far as I can tell, the only reason she hasn’t done any of those things is laziness (or that it was all lip service and she never truly wanted any of that). She has enough money that she doesn’t need to raise a ton of it from other people, and she has no kids or anything really taking up her time.
Yes, I know that part, but I don’t think she’s ever claimed to be a deep thinker. That particular criticism I don’t get — she doesn’t claim to be a great intellect, thinker, or someone people would look to share insights with the world. She even admitted her dad didn’t think she was interesting when she was a kid.
True, there’s a disconnect between her stated goals and what she has made happen acting or producing-wise, but that’s the case for a lot of people in Hollywood. However, when it comes to trying to appear smarter or deeper than she is intellect-wise, I don’t really think Aniston has put on a weird show of that a la Natalie or Gwyneth. I guess I prefer Aniston talking about her hair if that’s what she feels most comfortable taking about than hearing Gwyneth pontificate on the intellectual differences between British people and Americans or Natalie’s PR pretending that she could become President of the USA if she wanted to give up acting (I remember that from a Star Wars Vanity Fair profile).
You don’t have to be a deep thinker to come across as someone who’s head isn’t made of cotton wool. She is the quintessential bimbo. She makes Paris Hilton sound like an intellectual.
No, she doesn’t make Paris DUI arrest “was nothing” Hilton sound like an intellectual. That’s wishful thinking.
Perplexed, I enjoy reading your attempts at defending Aniston no matter what but I never said anything about the DUI. I said she makes Paris Hilton sound like an intellectual when she talks, which, its true, she does.
It’s not so much about defending Aniston as finding the person you chose a strange one to pick. I’m saying I disagree with the notion that Paris Hilton sounds like an intellectual when she talks, even in comparison to Aniston talking about her hair and tan. I can understand using another actress or reality show star for comparison but Paris Hilton is a comparison that doesn’t make sense to me. And I know you didn’t mention the DUI – obviously. I did, and I do so in relation to the comment about intellect. The reason I mentioned the DUI is that Paris Hilton said her DUI “was nothing” which is not a very bright, smart, insightful, or intellectual comment to make. Aniston is inarticulate but she’s never made a comment like that about drunk driving.
Thus, ultimately, I’m taking issue with the point of comparison in this case, which is Hilton, rather than defending Aniston. That particular comparison isn’t convincing to me, imo. I can see how my comment might be interpreted as a defence of Aniston, but read another way, it can also be interpreted as finding Paris Hilton is an odd person to pick to prove your point because I’ve seen her interviews on tv and with Letterman to know the how Paris sounds when she talks.
First of all, she is NOT wearing Aveeno spf 15…I’m sure her dermatologist/esthetician gives her a much stronger, much better, much more expensive sunscreen…yeah, right, she wears Aveeno! Secondly, she is not a good dramatic actress! Hell, she’s not even a very good comedic actress…She is ALWAYS the same…She should try and get a role on an HBO show…it’s a step up from regular tv and they do some pretty good shows. Look at VEEP! Of course, she is no Julia Louis-Drefus, that’s for sure….
She’s so vapid…..snooze.
Isn’t she supposed to be getting married or something?
Or something.
Any opportunity to sell a product. How pathetic. And in a few weeks, I bet you’ll see images of her sunning herself in Cabo or somewhere similar. She doesn’t realise how ridiculous, vacuous and contradictory she is.
She was great on friends. But she’s not Oscar worthy. She’s a rom com actress – she’s so over exposed as a celebrity that I can’t take anything else she does seriously.
Lol, why does she even have a production company if she’s going to insist on waiting around for a fairy godmother to hand her the perfect project on a platter
I know – what does she think a production company does?
Echo is such a nonentity as a production company. She doesn’t even produce romcoms consistently or anything. i don’t hate Aniston, but this perfectly exemplifies why she annoys me. She is truly all talk.
I think her Production Company is not doing well. Her friend and Producing Partner started her own Company but is still working with JA on the side. That says a lot.
Looking at what Plan B is doing and comparing the companies. It is clear to see that she really didn’t have much to do with that company. She was never a driving force. I think she obviously has enough money to finance any script she wanted to do. There are a lot of scripts that need someone to champion them. Which is exactly what Plan B is trying to do.
She seems more passionate about these endorsements and products than acting/roles.
I don’t think Aniston has been that smart with her film choices, but I also don’t think her shilling for products is really out of the ordinary either, particularly for someone in her age range.
Did people find it when Jane Fonda was doing exercise videos? I’ve always wondered why an Oscar winner and someone as respected as Fonda had to do cheesy exercise videos to supplement her income and keep her name in the public sphere.
Anyway, because of people like Fonda, Aniston’s career trajectory into shilling products doesn’t seem odd to me. Maybe actresses like the control they can get from being entrepreneurs that they can’t get in the film industry — that’s the only explanation I have for why someone like Fonda, who is considered far more talented than Aniston, would be doing exercise videos. I assume Gwyneth also likes the control she gets from having her own lifestyle brand — my only issue with Gwyneth is that I think 25 year old Gwyneth would have acted above what 42 year old Gwyneth is doing. But putting that aside, the trajectory of moving into getting into product industries seems fairly common.
Jane Fonda was blacklisted after she supported Vietnam and criticised US govt policy. Google ‘Hanoi Jane’. She couldn’t work for many years after that episode. She was very good in the few films she was able to do, but ‘Hanoi Jane’ was a sceptre she couldn’t escape.
Her exercise videos saved her career because they shifted focus from the poisonous ‘Hanoi Jane’ label.
Okay. Thanks. That makes sense. Because until now I never understood why she needed to do exercise videos (well, at least, not the kind where you wear the cheesy leotards anyway).
She still is. There was an article on Facebook in the last couple of months about Fonda maybe taking Lindsay Lohan under her wings, and the level of passionate white hot anger and seething hatred for ‘Hanoi Jane’ has not evaporated one bit, even current vets who have just come back serving in the middle east pouring hatred on her. People still haven’t forgiven her and have passed their hatred onto the current generation of vets. Pretty sad.
The cheesy leotards were the fashion of the time. There is a moment in the 80s when physical exercise became a thing. In movies and music videos and on TV – see ‘let’s get physical’ music video by Olivia Newton John, the film PERFECT with John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, FAME the film and TV show etc. In Britain we had somebody called the green goddess who would do workouts on morning TV in those leotards.
Jane Fonda was simply following the herd though she was very successful at it.
Yep, the movie Flashdance is another.
But… What about how she was a serious actress who has goals to be a producer and was more than hair and the products she endorses?
Did we ever really believe this? Still waiting on Goree Girls. Everything is lined up and ready to go. Why not just go ahead and prove you want to be a respected producer?
Ugh. Exactly. This is why, despite my personal dislike of her, I can’t get behind her. She’s a lazy actress who likes to make easy money to get another margarita fountain. No biggie. But don’t act like you want to take initiative and do bigger/better things (and have the money to do so) in terms of directing and producing. She hasn’t even tried. As far as I know, Courtney Cox’s movie doesn’t even have a distributor (one she directed). But she TRIED. Jennifer wants to make sure she gets paid before doing anything i.e. the Lifetime short movie.
You’re so right. She thinks because she was in Friends twenty years ago that Hollywood should just be throwing work her way blindly.
The only problem is she’s playing the same character in every movie and guest appearance on TV shows.
It’s time she just suck it up and go back to TV were she’s actually funny.
Courteney’s movie Just Before I Go was released in 2 theaters. BO total $10,970. I was shocked to see that David was an Executive Producer and was one of the actors in the films as well.
But as you said.. she at least tried. I think I saw that she is attached to Mean Moms.
The best roles for actresses over 40 are on TV. If she doesn’t want to return to TV she’s going to get the crumbs of movie roles that will go to better actresses.
If she really thinks she will end up on the Oscar podium she’s deluded.
Is there any medical benefit to drinking loads of water? Of course it is important to be hydrated, but after that point aren’t you just diminishing your electrolytes?
Don’t get me wrong, I love my fluids and hydrate first thing in the AM. But I don’t understand the push to down glass after glass of water and spend your life peeing!
I thin it does make a person feel more energized and I think skin looks better. However, I have no idea if doctors and scientists have done studies about it. But I think it does make a difference in how you feel.
It makes a huge difference in your skin, but as you pointed out, there is a point where you are diluting your electrolytes and can drown yourself from drinking too much water.
LAK, how in the world do you know so much stuff? The height and breadth of all of your comments awe me. Seriously…you are one of the smartest people, how do you know so much?
You’re so right. Love how water make you feel cleansed but the constant peeling drives me crazy.
her not getting movie roles has nothing to do with her age.
she can highlight and blowdry her hair, lather up in aveeno, spray tan and drink water till she floats away…none of it will bring her movie roles.
she was rachel – an endearing rachel – that was her run.
she is one dimensional in her acting, in her interviews.
she should look outside of hollywood and invest her millions in something worthwhile to help those in need…or something…anything but acting.
Please. Stop showing the foto of Jennifer in the burgandy suit with the flat shiny chest. I caught a glare off that chest, and got a headache
that’s to the carolina herrera thread, i just see fried eggs
She’s not doing herself any favors with this flurry of interviews promoting nothing. She thought she was going to build buzz for herself with those indies she was doing but none of them were that good. She played her hand too hard with Cake and unlike Sandra Bullock she doesn’t have the box office to appeal to acclaimed directors. I also don’t think her ego would let her return to TV.
Aveeno, Smartwater, Justin, wedding, blah. Blah. Why isn’t she schilling for a line of sunscreens with this revelation of hers?
Damn! You beat me to it.
“Blah,blah,blah….hair..blah,blah….marriage….blah,blah…..Friends…blah,blah…..produce….blah,blah……water….blah,blah…..aveeno.”
Hi, my name is Jen A. I am so thirsty. Did you know I was married to Brad? Brad Pitt. You know who Brad Pitt is? Look at my hair. Did you see my hair? Did you know, at one time; my haircut had a name? I am thirsty. Did I mention that?
Not even six bottles of smartwater a day can quench her “thirst”. She is perpetually parched!!
A+ comment!
+10000000 to both of your comments! That is exactly how she is.
I have been obsessed with Jen’s tanorexia for years and how no matter what season in a movie she’s so tanned. Her dark tanning has gone too far for years and has not been flattering in the least. And I call BULL on her remark gave herself a sun-tanning intervention a few years ago. I have made repeated remarks on her for the last “few years” about Jen’s still ongoing obsession with her dark tans. Nothing has changed. In fact, her face has been orange far too often in recent years. She might have backed off here or there but never, ever consistently.
Maybe she forgets to mention she just spray tans now instead of actual tanning in the sun. So she is still obsessed with having a dark suntan. She just isn’t baking in the sun, I guess.
She gets more obnoxious with each interview.
I don’t know her personally but looking on from the outside her life looks completely bland and boring. I could not stand the lack of stimulus she seems to have. She does the same things over and over and over. Blah.
Waking thru the desert . Thirsty.
“She doesn’t want anyone thinking that she’s buying her success.”
Too late for that!