Jennifer Aniston has spoken about some of the disadvantages of working in show business for The Hollywood Reporter this week.
Speaking to her fellow roundtable attendees (Naomi Watts, Brie Larson, Anna Sawai, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman and Sofia Vergara), Aniston said she didn’t really like auditioning.
And testing to see if she had chemistry with a co-star was especially bad, said Brad Pitt’s ex, who has worked with many A-list actors, including Ben Affleck, Adam Sandler, Jason Bateman and Owen Wilson, although she didn’t name who. I had to kiss.
“When you’re in an audition room, you’re already at a disadvantage,” the Friends veteran said.
“Maybe you would have chemistry with this person if you were in a different environment, and not like, “Create chemistry. Ready? Come on!”‘
Jennifer Aniston opened up about some of the downsides of working in show business with The Hollywood Reporter this week.
Speaking to her fellow roundtable attendees (Naomi Watts, Brie Larson, Anna Sawai, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman and Sofia Vergara), Aniston said she didn’t really like auditioning.
She added: “And I’m a terrible auditioner, I always was.” I waitressed forever until I finally got something, which was a commercial for Bob’s Big Boy.
“So if you’re a nervous auditioner to begin with and then you say, ‘Now we’re going to make out with a complete stranger,’ it’s very awkward.”
Aniston added that it would be better if casting directors tried to make actors feel more relaxed.
“Play some music or something,” the actress suggested.
Aniston didn’t say when the chemistry tests were done, but it was probably before she got Friends in 1994.
Jennifer also talked about working in dramas.
‘Well, living in that dark space as a comedian, ultimately when I started, is really difficult. That’s why I listen to SmartLess on the way to and from work (on the Morning Show), just to laugh and get out of that (headspace),’ he said.
‘I don’t live in my character, which I know some people do. I choose to get rid of it as quickly as I can. And then I usually say, when I’m done (with the season), “I need a comedy right now.”
And Jennifer also shared that she may feel insecure about acting.
“I was going to say that every time I go to work, even when I start the next season of The Morning Show, I’ll think, ‘I don’t know how to do this.’ It’s like I have absolutely no memory of how to be an actor.”
The cake actress also said she worries less about fame as she gets older.
“I just think the older you get, the more ‘fucked up’ you become,” he shared.
And testing to see if he had chemistry with a co-star was especially bad, Brad Pitt’s ex said. “When you’re in an audition room, you’re already at a disadvantage,” the Friends veteran said. “Maybe you would have chemistry with this person if you were in a different environment, and not like,” he creates chemistry. Ready? Come on!”‘
Here she is about to kiss David Schwimmer in Friends
Also in her HR interview, she revealed that in the past she had leaned on her longtime friend, Nicole Kidman, as she reflected on the importance of having female friends in her industry.
When asked who in her field had helped her get through the “hardest or loneliest parts” of life, the star recalled how the Oscar winner, 56, gave her support during the filming of her comedy. 2011, Just Go with It.
“When we did that movie in Hawaii (2011’s Just Go With It), you helped me through a lot of difficult things I was going through,” Aniston told Kidman while participating in a panel discussion with The Hollywood Reporter, alongside Jodie Foster. Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Ana Sawai and Sofia Vergara.
He continued, “Just having that community is very helpful.”
Aniston didn’t elaborate on what she was experiencing at the time, but later joined Larson, 34, about how “connecting with other women has been a game-changer” for her as an actress.
One of her co-stars was Vince Vaughn on The Breakup, which led to her dating; seen in 2006
“It’s so true,” Aniston said, after the Room star talked about doing everything she could to “become friends with other women in the industry because there was usually only one woman in a job.”
Additionally, Aniston admitted to being touched by hearing Kidman talk about feeling burdened by some of the dark roles she has taken on over the years.
Kidman, who played the role of an abused wife on the HBO series Big Little Lies, admitted that it was difficult to depict domestic violence for more than 12 to 14 hours a day on set.
“But there’s a way we operate that the show has to go on, so you just keep going, show up and do it and do it and do it and do it,” he said. “And there’s really no time to say, ‘I need to take care of myself.'”
The Moulin Rouge star added that “it’s very hard on the psyche” and after her film, Expats, she made a comedy because she “went crazy with” her “own psychology.”
Vergara responded: ‘The body doesn’t know that what you’re going through (isn’t real).’
Aniston (R) revealed that she has leaned on her longtime friend, Nicole Kidman (L), as she reflects on the importance of having friends in her industry; seen in 2011
Kidman concluded: ‘It’s not like that. But the idea of being able to go get a massage or a hot bath or even a pat on the back, just having someone touch you and say, “It’s okay.”
Aniston later told Kidman that his words made her “a little tearful.”
In response, Kidman reminded her friend and the other actresses on the panel that “it’s very important to reach out to each other.”
Aniston and Kidman met at a Golden Globes party in 2005.
Recalling the first time they crossed paths, Aniston said harper’s bazaar back in 2011 that it was a “typical Hollywood story” and that they shared “an agent.”
‘I remember meeting this tall, beautiful woman who was there with her mom and dad. I was completely starstruck, while she was nothing but kind,” the Golden Globe winner gushed.
She continued: ‘I loved her immediately. We have met over the years and stay in touch. But it was Adam Sandler, precisely, who brought us together in Hawaii to film the comedy Just Go With It.’