The View (Videos)
Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, and Demi Moore dropped by the View today to discuss their Lifetime movie ‘Five’.
Good Morning America (Video)
The stars were shining bright on “Good Morning America” when Alicia Keys joined fellow superstars Jennifer Aniston and Demi Moore to promote their breast cancer movie Five, which they co-directed.
The ladies shared powerful stories about their characters and Alicia spoke about being bitten by the directing bug. “This was my first time directing and I am in love,” she told Robin Roberts. “You’ll see me behind the camera more often.”
The new mom also opened up about her son Egypt, who will turn one this month. “He’s actually Jennifer’s boyfriend,” she joked. “He kissed her and it was kind of tender.”
Five premieres October 10 on Lifetime.
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Glamour Interview
What do the superstars you see here have in common—besides their megawatt status and constant pursuit by paparazzi? A message they’re sharing for the first time, here in these pages. This month the three friends team up to help launch the women’s advocacy project of the year: Five, a series of films about women and breast cancer that, stitched together in a two-hour block airing on Lifetime on October 10, powerfully show how breast cancer affects women’s lives, families and friendships. Each of our cover girls directed a film; stars of the pieces include some of Hollywood’s strongest actresses, like Patricia Clarkson, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Rosario Dawson. Ready to hear more? Let Aniston, Moore and Keys tell you why they got involved—and what else is going on in their jam-packed, bold-faced lives.
Jennifer Aniston
Aniston, an executive producer and a major force behind Five, directed Mia, a film about a woman who initially—and wrongly—thinks her diagnosis is a death sentence. She sat down to talk with her friend and fellow executive producer Kristin Hahn.
KRISTIN HAHN: Take us through how Five came to be.
JENNIFER ANISTON: Well, about a year ago, Susan G. Komen for the Cure approached you and me with the idea. We were intrigued by the challenge of creating short stories that would defy audiences’ expectation of the subject. We wanted to balance the drama with humor and irreverence because that’s what’s helped our friends who’ve faced this get through their treatment. So we approached Francesca Silvestri and Kevin Chinoy, who produce Glamour’s Reel Moments, which is how I came to direct my first short film, one of the best experiences of my life. Then we joined forces with [producer] Paula Wagner and [cocreator of Friends] Marta Kauffman. We wanted stories that were informative without being heavy-handed. Oh, and they needed to be brilliantly written. Other than that, our goals were small. [Both laugh.]
KRISTIN HAHN: Why do we still need to tell stories about breast cancer after 20 years of awareness?
JENNIFER ANISTON: Because we don’t yet have a cure, and cancer has grown 30,000 snakes out of its head. We need to go at this Medusa with all the firepower we’ve got, from research and legislation, to awareness and early detection, to support groups and compassion for everyone who walks through this. We need to show up for them, to talk to them, to not be afraid.
KRISTIN HAHN: You were very active in the Stand Up to Cancer special that Laura Ziskin [producer of films like Spider-man, who lost her battle with breast cancer in June] produced. What do you hope her legacy will be?
JENNIFER ANISTON: Oh my God, what a fighter. Her legacy is in everyone she touched. Everything she was so good at, she funneled into the cancer cause. She is not to be forgotten.
Jennifer says ‘I won’t play it safe anymore’
JENNIFER Aniston doesn’t need anyone to tell her what to do. The Horrible Bosses star knows who she is and where’s she’s going.
You’d think that the weight of all that’s been written about Aniston would leave her bent double and dragging enough baggage to fill a 747. But what you think and what you get are two completely different things.
The actress may be enjoying her surroundings at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, one of the oldest in New York and the epitome of faded grandeur, but it soon becomes clear that Aniston is all about the future and not the past.
The legendary landmark (the hotel, not Aniston) takes up an entire block south of Central Park, and is known for its famous Waldorf salad and close-up magic shows. So it’s fitting that Aniston, one of the most photographed women on the planet, appears out of nowhere like a designer-clad conjuror’s assistant.
Aniston talks to TEN about ‘Horrible Bosses’
Speaking about the x-rated dialogue in scenes with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Charlie Day, she said: “I was just having fun. I was just able to have total freedom to be as insane as I wanted to be. The dialogue is brilliant…shockingly so.”
Watch Jennifer Aniston’s full RTÉ TEN interview here.
We asked her if it the dialogue that first attracted her to the role: “It was the dialogue, the whole circuit, the situation, the circumstance, the scenario, everything, I just loved it.”
When asked if we had a little taster of Aniston’s nympho dentist Dr Julia in her 30 Rock guest appearance as Claire Harper, she said: “Ah yes, there was a little bit of the woman unhinged, she was great.”
Aniston also spoke to RTÉ TEN about Colin Farrell, her love of Mad Men and what type of character she would like to play on the show.
The Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress also spoke about working in Ireland to film 2007′s Marley & Me: “I loved it. We weren’t there long enough – it was so beautiful.”
She said her fondest memoires were: “My first Guinness” which she said tasted like bark or “maybe thicker than that. It tasted like a root of some sort and the earth. It was a hearty, hardy drink.
“And we were all in a pub, the whole cast and crew and it was a very fun evening.”
Jennifer Aniston in Daybreak
Jennifer Aniston talks to Daybreak this morning about her new film ‘Horrible Bosses’.
“It was great fun to explore my kinkiest”
Her reputation for playing goody-two-shoes characters in safe romcoms is set to crumble.
For in her new comedy, Horrible Bosses, she turns sinister – hamming it up as a dastardly dentist who sexually harasses her assistant.
And Jennifer admits she dipped into her own fantasies to make her man-eating character believable.
Talking about playing Dr Julia Harris, who blackmails her male assistant, she says: “It was great fun and very liberating to throw myself into this character.
“You feel totally uninhibited and get to explore your weirdest and kinkiest psychological quirks and just exaggerate all the kinds of flirtatious ideas and fantasies you’ve ever had.
“You get to enjoy being fearless when you play a character that is so brazen and domineering.”
“Brazen” and “domineering” are not words normally used to describe the former Friends actress.