Jennifer Aniston Reveals Struggles With Dyslexia, Anger; Shrugs Off Oscar Snub. This story first appeared in the Jan. The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Just last week, all around Hollywood the words . The Friends star had made a stunning switch to serious drama with Cake, a roughly $7 million indie release that opens Jan. Toronto Film Festival to terrific reviews for the actress, if not for the film itself; she had Harvey Weinstein's former awards consultant, Lisa Taback, on the case; and a nomination looked teed up and ready to go. Jennifer Aniston, Actress: Friends. Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father is Greek, and her mother. 1.02 All about attending tapings How sad, there are no more tapings! Normally, tickets for all television shows are free. The only catch is that tickets for popular. Jennifer Aniston began trending shortly after news broke that her ex-husband Brad Pitt had split with Angelina Jolie after two years of marriage. Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Reportedly Were To Star In Film: Why Jennifer Aniston May Get That Then on Thursday, Jan. Hours after Aniston's triumphant appearance at Cake's Los Angeles premiere, with a nomination from every other major voting body in Hollywood under her belt, a swirl of . After Selma (which landed just two noms, for picture and song), the Aniston rebuke was the dominant entertainment story du jour. She even joked about it a few days later on Ellen, calling herself . She was exactly what millions of fans who have known her for two decades wanted her to be: funny and self- deprecating and exquisitely human. Secrets to a celebrity body: Trainer to Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore reveals how YOU can get an A-list figure. Kathy Kaehler has been a personal. Product Description. Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson unleash huge laughs as John and Jenny Grogan, a young couple contemplating the decision to have a baby. Other actresses might have induced a tsunami of schadenfreude. But Aniston's enduring appeal is rooted in the very fact that she can be hurt, again and again — whether by the Oscars or the Sexiest Man Alive — and she'll endure. She's rich and glamorous and famous, but she's also one of us: a real person with a beating heart.***We sit in Aniston's cavernous Bel Air living room, with the city spreading out through the floor- length windows. Anybody who's felt pain or loss that has sent you to your knees knows . We're halfway through a two- hour interview, and the frothy, fizzy woman I thought I knew so well from Friends has shed her professional shell, revealing a more complex and perhaps vulnerable person inside. She's just slid off the long, gray sofa where she was sitting in her somewhat minimalist home and now is kneeling on the floor, one arm propped on a coffee table, in jeans and a T- shirt, looking remarkably young and well- toned. Her hair, the most scrutinized in modern media, is of course perfect; her rather artificial tan, less so — but then she's fresh from a photo shoot and hasn't had time to wipe it off. I hear a hint of regret, though she insists, . Life is quite extraordinary. It would be wrong to say she's having a midlife crisis; but it might be fair to say she's experiencing a midlife contemplation, when questions about her life, and life itself, are paramount. Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman. She is the daughter of Greek-born actor John Aniston and. When Jennifer Aniston opens the door to the Malibu bungalow she’s been holed up in lately, she gives me a radiant smile and an effusive hello. Jada Pinkett Smith Says Kids Willow & Jaden Are Her 'Biggest Contribution' Calvin Harris Explains That Taylor Swift Rant; Mika Brzezinski Reacts To Trump Slam. At 4. 5 years old, sporting gold- rimmed, aviator- style glasses, Aniston is no longer the ingenue who became a household name at age 2. She has come to terms with a complicated relationship with her mother, has learned to moderate her urge to be always in control and has overcome issues about anger, specifically her longtime history of being . And yet she's still trying to figure out what it all really means, and as time hurtles by, that's growing in importance. You want summer to be over, you want Christmas to be over, you want this to be over, you want everything to be over just so you can get to the next thing. And boy, you really wish you'd listened to a lot of the things they said. She's been cast in the role of rejected wife, a Debbie Reynolds for the 2. Nobody did anything wrong. You know what I mean? It was just like, sometimes things . There's no story. I mean, at this point it's starting to become — please, give more credit to these human beings. I get nervous around that, just because it's very personal. Who knows if it's going to happen? It's been a want. We're doing our best. But it doesn't have to be black or white. You don't have to be a hysterical human being and have veins popping out of your neck and turn bright red and terrify people — or else keep quiet and put your head in the sand. I used to loathe confrontation. It was absolute. I understood anger, but I didn't know that you should express it. Which has been something that I've really tried to work on. My life was so out of control growing up, it's very important today for it to be in control. I just bite my tongue, especially with a . Some directors are just like — oh, God, oh God, oh God! But I was really shockingly OK. Mostly she practices at home rather than following any particular guru. I have a little place at home, and I do it for about 2. From the things I've read about him, books and lectures, he seems like pure joy, pure, pure, pure enlightenment. In fact, she seems as self- aware as she is candid, a rather empathetic person struggling to define her life in the glare of a spotlight few of us will ever face. She has few heroes she can cite, other than the Dalai Lama. I just remember being so enamored of him. I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday, if I become an actress, I'll be able to work with him.' And I remember the day he died, crying my eyes out. The two met while Aniston was on vacation in Hawaii with her former co- star Courteney Cox and have now been together for four years. He was so completely in his skin. It was the first time I remember being so comfortable . She likes NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, and favorite programs include 6. Minutes, House of Cards, Breaking Bad and Veep. Last year, ! The Bachelor is premiering tonight!' And I was like, 'Oh, guys! The Bachelor? That's been on for 1. And Justin and I, just for fun, watched — and two hours later, we were addicted. It was like junk food. We were sad when it ended. I found all this stuff, so I may build a little art studio off . One had a blue lens and one had a red lens. And I had to read a paragraph, and they gave me a quiz, gave me 1. I'd just read, and I think I got three right. Then they put a computer on my eyes, showing where my eyes went when I read. My eyes would jump four words and go back two words, and I also had a little bit of a lazy eye, like a crossed eye, which they always have to correct in photos. Until then, . I just couldn't retain anything. I felt like all of my childhood trauma- dies, tragedies, dramas were explained. I can't tolerate that. If I get upset, I will discuss . I will never scream and get hysterical like that. One time, I raised my voice to my mother, and I screamed at her, and she looked at me and burst out laughing. She was laughing at me . And it was like a punch in my stomach. She was very critical of me. Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning. I never was. I honestly still don't think of myself in that sort of light, which is fine. She was also very unforgiving. She would hold grudges that I just found so petty. There are people in my life that are like, 'How do you even talk to that guy?' But what's the point of holding on to ? That's so toxic. We're human beings. Human beings make mistakes. Human beings are not perfect. And by not forgiving someone, it's not allowing human beings to evolve and become better people. Beautiful, funny, gorgeous, hysterical — all the Greeks, all of my Greek family, were. It was really sad. But then, like anything, you have to move on. I actually had quite a beautiful upbringing with it, because it was never pounded down my throat, and I had the joy of going to church and experiencing ceremony and ritual and incense, and I thought it was quite beautiful. But other kids who were from Catholic families, or really strict Christian families — there was this 'You're going to hell' sort of thing. Though that didn't improve her self- image, it did push her to develop her innate humor. She was funny at school, and people liked it. Her only passions there were an art class and a workshop where she tried out watercolor and charcoal and could carve creatures such as the wooden lions she still keeps — and, of course, drama. After acting at school, she got her first work off- Broadway in 1. In her early 2. 0s, she moved to Los Angeles and in her mid- 2. Friends. But all this is over now, part of another life long gone, and there are no plans for a reunion (though the residuals continue to roll in). She auditioned for director Daniel Barnz, then urged him to give her the role, telling him she would . But she also knew there would be many naysayers, and some of their negativity rubbed off. Can I really . I took out a tool bag I hadn't used. Aniston drew on her own memories of anguish. The emotions flooded out of her in a way she had never permitted onscreen. At one point, she was paralyzed by fear. In a sequence where she submerges herself in a pool in an attempt to see what it would be like to commit suicide, a water phobia she has had all her life proved overpowering. I kept going in, and I'd have the weirdest Pavlovian thing, and I'd turn around and go right back up. I was starting to cry. I was really having a lot of anxiety. I'm like, 'Don't cry! Don't cry!' And the underwater camera guy came over and said, 'Don't do this. Don't do this anymore.' . Macy) arrives at her door, Aniston was overwhelmed. This big guy said, 'You can punch me as hard as you possibly can.' And I remember seeing white and just beating him for take after take. And the next day, I woke up and couldn't move. My body seized . I was like, 'What the f— did I do?' . I don't have an agenda. I just go with my gut. She also would like to direct a film but hasn't encountered the right vehicle. There's too much to be home for. In some ways, she's a homebody who gets great joy from restoring houses, just as she has fixed up the house where we sit this late afternoon. That has much more appeal than uprooting herself for the sake of just another job. One of her three rescue dogs, an old white shepherd, lopes in and comes up to her, licking her face. She shows him a warmth she rarely reveals to strangers. The light is fading. The view from the windows is dark now. One of the two great doors that lead into Aniston's fortress- like house opens, and her manager, Keshishian, enters with a colleague. It occurs to me that Aniston resembles this house, so protected on the outside, but with great vistas spreading out once one gets within.
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