Live with Regis & Kelly, May 2006
, promoting The Break-Up.

- transcribed by Summer Thanks a lot.

KELLY: Okay, wait, wait--let me just get together. Okay...I'm ready.
REGIS: Alright. After a decade of playing one of TV's favorite Friends (someone already gasps in the audience). She's become one of Hollywood's most sought-after actresses. (The audience is getting really excited)
KELLY: I know, I know!
REGIS: Her latest movie, The Break-Up, opens on Friday. Please welcome, Jennifer Aniston! (Jen comes out, waves, etc.)
REGIS: Well, look at you looking like a million bucks!
JEN: Thanks!
REGIS: Nice to see ya again.
KELLY: See, now last time you were here, you wore jeans and your adorable little top and so I was like, "Okay, I'll wear jeans and my adorable little top!" And you totally threw me for a curveball. (Jen is wearing a plaid skirt, black blouse, and green flats.)
JEN: I...first of all, I had seen how...you threw me. I thought I was underdressed!
KELLY: You are gorgeous!
REGIS: You look terrific.
JEN: Thanks!
REGIS: I love the outfit, yeah.
JEN: (to Kelly) You're sick and now (to Regis) you are not and last time you (to Regis) were sick--
REGIS: Really?
JEN: ... and you were - Yeah. You had food poisoning. Remember?
REGIS: ...I did...
JEN: You don't remember.
REGIS: Well, thank you for remembering!
JEN: (laughing) Yes!
REGIS: Flew in from LA yesterday...
KELLY: Are you a good flyer?
JEN: I....uh....no! I'm getting much better, though. I'm getting so much better. We did happen to fly on sort-of an older plane yesterday.
KELLY: What do you mean, "an older plane"?
JEN: I don't... you know, just an older plane that you could hear it...it was very Flintstone-like.
REGIS: Was it a private or a commercial?
JEN: It was a private.
REGIS: An old private plane!
JEN: Yeah...
REGIS: Oh, well that's really scary!
JEN: Yeah, paint chippin' and all that sort-of stuff.
REGIS: Have you ever had a bad flight in the past?
JEN: Oh, yeah! You know, I think that's what starts it all...
REGIS: 'Cause you do a lot of traveling.
JEN: Oh, I know and there's a lot of...I had one really bad one though, where we were caught in an electrical storm. It was from Toronto to New York, it was what, an hour flight?
KELLY: Right.
JEN: And it took two hours, because on our descent...it was, you know, we just shouldn't have been in the air. We were a tin can, basically.
REGIS: I've been in one of those at night, where you can see the lightening strike outside the window--
JEN: Oh....we were flying and every once in awhile you'd see, ya know, Earth, like a tree, a field, and I'd say, "Just land it! Put it down!"
REGIS: "Put it down!"
JEN: Put it on the freeway! Wherever it is.
KELLY: Now do you take...uh, do you medicate yourself when you fly?
JEN: (bluntly) Do I take drugs?
KELLY: To fly. A lot of people fly with medication....I've been told.
JEN: (laughing) Yes. I have been known to do that, yeah.
REGIS: All of a sudden this whole movie career is going crazy, huh? Boy...
KELLY: She's a movie star. (audience cheers)
REGIS: She's a movie star. A. Movie. Star. I've seen both movies now. Friends With Money.
JEN: Yes.
REGIS: You played sort-of a housekeeper. A maid.
JEN: I did.
REGIS: For hire, yeah. Are you kind of a neat person around the house?
JEN: Oh, yeah.
REGIS: Are ya?
JEN: Yeah... I mean, that was something my mother used to say when I would hem and haw that I had to clean my room. She said, "Someday you'll thank me and you'll do it yourself and piss off your own child." And, sure enough I'm there. I don't have a child yet to piss off, but...
KELLY: But, do you piss off the cleaning lady?
JEN: Well, I rearrange stuff that she does. And I don't have the heart to just say, ya know, IT. I just end up doing it. But, ya know, the kitchen has to be clean before I go to bed, all of that sort-of stuff.
REGIS: Well, Friends With Money was the name of the movie.
JEN: Yeah.
REGIS: And, ya know, it was quite an eclectic cast they put together.
JEN: I know.
REGIS: Wow.
JEN: Fantastic cast.
REGIS: Very good, and now comes The Break-Up which we're gonna talk about, but let's just reminisce for a moment about Friends, which I still see in syndication.
JEN: (smiling widely) Yeah, you do.
REGIS: And it's there.
JEN: Yeah, it's there.
REGIS: Do you still stay close to the gang?
JEN: I do. I think after... when you spend that much time together over the years, you do become sort-of family. Some we see more than others. Courteney, of course, is the one who I just see all the time.
REGIS: Godmother to her daughter, right?
JEN: That's right. I am little Coco's Godmother.
KELLY: And she's so cute, that little girl.
JEN: Oh, there is just nothing like that child!
REGIS: Is her real name 'Coco'?
JEN: Coco. It's a real thing. Coco Riley. She's... Coco. Like in cocoa... (realizes how obvious this statement is and laughs) I don't know what that meant....but, yeah, she is absolutely exquisite.
REGIS: Yeah, she looks like a beautiful kid.
KELLY: Now, do Courteney and David leave you with the child when they go out to dinner?
JEN: No!
REGIS: You are the godmother!
JEN: I know! But, that's not about baby-sitting.
REGIS: Yeah. Only fools baby-sit their friends' kids. I did it once with her youngest.
JEN: Oh, Gosh!
REGIS: Dropped the kid on his head.
JEN: No! You did?
KELLY: He dropped him on his head.
REGIS: Never heard the end of it.
JEN: Well...
REGIS: He stopped talking for two years.
JEN: You shouldn't hear the end of that.
REGIS: We're gonna take a break. When we come back, we'll talk some more with Jennifer Aniston, The Break-Up star!

--COMMERCIAL BREAK-
REGIS: Jennifer Aniston sitting here, looking fresh as a daisy.(Jen has this look on her face like, 'Well... okay...' lol) We're discussing her movie career. New movie is called The Break-Up...
KELLY: Yes.
REGIS: And she stars with Vince Vaughn, they're going together, and suddenly there is a break-up, but both of them remain in the house... in the apartment.
KELLY: It's so fantastic. Because, this has happened, I think, to a lot of people.
REGIS: Ever happened to you, maybe?
KELLY: I....it...no!
REGIS: Well, it's kinda tough, you know....but, in real life, you once broke up with a guy...you just sent him a fax, right?
JEN: Well, no...
KELLY: That's a story.
JEN: That's not...that sounded funny. I actually...we broke up with each other, and then a month or so went by and I was actually asked out on a date, and I panicked about being asked out on a date, and while I was out away, far away, I don't remember what I was doing, but anyway I wrote an 18-page fax. And got back together over the...via fax.
REGIS: Geez, some emotional fax you sent!
JEN: Well, I don't know what I was trying to... I mean, I was losing the... I lost my mind. And then I regretted it, so I had to RE-break-up over the fax.
REGIS: Over the fax!
JEN: Well, 'cause he faxed me back saying, 'Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes!' And then went, 'Uh-oh...' (does this expression that's like 'Not really what I meant') And then I had to--
KELLY: Did you write back, like, Fax you!
JEN: (laughing) Yeah! You know... Fax you...
KELLY: Didn't you guys have telephones?
JEN: Well, we were--
REGIS: It's easier just to type.
JEN: It was easy and the letter, the written word, and then I...thank God...because...oh, I wasn't very mature--
REGIS: 18 pages! That must've been a classic. I hoped you saved that. It's a book!
JEN: I should've. I could've written my short stories.
KELLY: You should save it and sell it on eBay!
REGIS: There you go. I think you just gave him an idea.
JEN: (laughing) Uh...
REGIS: Anyway, we've got Vince coming on the show. We love Vince.
JEN: I heard. He's hosting.
REGIS: We love Vince.
KELLY: Any advice for me?
JEN: Good luck, Girl!
REGIS: First of all, he's so tall, ya know.
JEN: Yeah.
REGIS: You've gotta get used to that...
JEN: Do you have a higher chair?
KELLY: Well, what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna sit like this: (she gets into this pose where she has one knee down on the chair and the other up kinda with her hand on it, looking really interested)
JEN: (laughing) Yeah, that's good! Ha! That'll be good!
KELLY: Vince and me!
JEN: Vince and you. You're gonna have a ball! That'll be fun.
KELLY: He's really funny. He's made us laugh when he's been here as a guest.
REGIS: The other thing is, he can't throw a football.
JEN: Are you kidding?
REGIS: No, he played the quarterback in that Notre Dame movie, Rudy.
JEN: That was on a (does air quotes) movie.
REGIS: But we had him here, we had him here, Jennifer. (Imitates a wimpy throw)
JEN: Maybe he had a...
REGIS: Big strappy guy from Chicago (Imitates throw again)
JEN: Oh! I don't know...
REGIS: I don't wanna talk about it...
JEN: Reeg, this is serious!
KELLY: Are you saying this because you're going to be in another country when he's here?
JEN: Where are you going?
REGIS: I'm going to Italy.
JEN: Wow!
REGIS: Lake Como.
JEN: Oh! Are you going to Mr. Clooney's house?
REGIS: Probably hang around with George for a week. Yeah. George doesn't know it yet, but I'm on my way, George!
JEN: (laughing) Yes!
KELLY: Regis is going to break into George's house!
JEN: That sounds like fun! Are you gonna bring a crew, camera crew?
REGIS: Oh, no, no, no, no...
GILLMAN: That's a good idea.
JEN: Yes!
REGIS: I may bring a little camera--'Hey, George, look over there!' (pretends to constantly snap pictures)
JEN: That's beautiful! Such a beautiful, beautiful place.
REGIS: You've been there!
JEN: Yes.
REGIS: In George's house?
JEN: Yes!
REGIS: No kidding.
JEN: I'm not talking about George, I'm talking about the whole Lake Como--I mean, George's house is beautiful, but...
REGIS: No, Lake Como is gorgeous. I've never been there, but I've seen pictures. I'm really looking forward to it.
KELLY: See, movie stars all know each other.
JEN: No...no!
KELLY: Now, you've gotta get in there, baby and seal that deal!
REGIS: A lot of movie stars living there or just George?
JEN: No...no, yeah. I don't know. We probably shouldn't even be talking about that.
REGIS: Are the paparazzi driving you nuts? Because, you know, they see you with Vince Vaughn and they see you in this movie--
JEN: No, they don't.
REGIS: Huh? Well, a few educational pictures here and there...
JEN: Yeah. I'm teasin'.
REGIS: But, does it drive ya nuts?
JEN: Yeah! But, ya know, it's part of it. I think it'll die...I think everything will die down...everything ebbs and flows, that's all and--
REGIS: Good for you.
JEN: You just have to...there are days when you're just, like, outraged 'cause it's getting. I think it's getting out of control. Just in that it's dangerous. I've said it before, I miss the days where...if they wanted to hide behind a bush, hide in a truck and I don't know that they're there, it's fine. Get away with it. But, they're (jumps) frightening!
REGIS: Right in your face, yeah.
JEN: And driving like insane people. You don't have that here, 'cause it's the city (she says it all proper, like, "cit-aye").
KELLY: The city is, like, kind of civilized when it comes to that stuff.
JEN: Yeah. In New York, people are respectful. You've got all walks of life here. It's more industry...
REGIS: They're used to seeing celebrities.
JEN: Yeah, and people live their lives.
REGIS: They're like forget it, Regis!
KELLY: But, I used to live in the same apartment building as Nicole Kidman.
JEN: Yeah.
KELLY: So, when she moved in, there was a paparazzi encampment that moved-in across the street. And everyday, I would come down the elevator with my kids to go to school and I would go to work, and you would see them get ready with their cameras (pretends to lift up a camera).
JEN: Yeah.
KELLY: 'Cause they would see the elevator shaft moving down (Jen gasps). So, they would get ready and I would walk-out and they would go 'Argh!' (pretends to lower camera).
REGIS: They wanted Nicole Kidman!
KELLY: Isn't that funny? The ego is just gone!
REGIS: We're gonna come back and show ya a clip from The Break-Up!

--COMMERCIAL BREAK-
REGIS: So, The Break-Up opens on Friday here in NYC and all over the country. It was filmed in Chicago. Was it written by Vince? 'Cause he's quite a writer...
JEN: Story by and then written by... yeah, Jay and Jeremy as well and then Vince and all of 'em.
KELLY: And so did he cast you, did he hand-select you?
JEN: I was hand-picked, yes. (does a picking motion with her hand)
KELLY: Fantastic.
JEN: Yeah. I mean, It was great. I just lucked out on that one. They were nervous, of course to make the call, because some other things had taken place in the mean time (laughs), but they did and it was great.
REGIS: So you two guys are living in this house and then comes the break-up--
JEN: Yes.
REGIS: And they are still living there, which leads to one problem after another.
JEN: Yes.
REGIS: Very difficult situation to be in.
JEN: Very difficult.
REGIS: Yeah--
JEN: But lends itself to some comedy.
REGIS: That's exactly right. Now, was it difficult doing a love scene with Vince, because he's so tall.
JEN: (takes a deep breath and the audience kind of laughs and murmurs, because we're all thinking the same thing. Jennifer takes a long time to speak and it's actually quite amusing) Well...see, first of all, there was not really...there was no love scene.
REGIS: Really?!
JEN: But, there were arguments. Which is, you can yell at a belt, you can yell at anywhere...
REGIS: I thought I remembered a nude scene.
JEN: Well, there was a nude scene.
REGIS: Well, forget about the word "love". Nude scene. (Jen laughs) He's so tall!
JEN: (laughing) He's so tall! He was sitting during the nude scene. (Jen does an "eek" face)
REGIS: Oh... I didn't notice.
KELLY: 'Cause if you were both nude, you never know who's gonna be eye to what, who knows! (Jennifer laughs)
REGIS: So, were there any hesitations about doing a nude scene?
JENNIFER: Well, there wasn't....you know, I'd read it in the script. It wasn't hesitation, I actually thought it would be modified a little bit from what I'd read in the script, but it was a full-on, you know, walk through the apartment, but very--
KELLY: But, you have the best body, I mean...
JEN: But, very strategically placed stuff. Stuff was out of focus, so, you know, you're not gettin' (gestures to self and the audience laughs).
KELLY: So, it was tush? Tush nude?
JEN: Yeah, but far in the distance! Far, far away!
REGIS: As an actress--
JEN: (I love how she's still talking) Vince Vaughn in focus, tush very out of focus....
REGIS: Out of focus, yeah. As actresses, do you get the call when it comes to a scene like that? Do they go, "Gee, we've got this in the script..."?
JEN: Yeah
KELLY: I am begged, begged to keep my clothes on!
JEN: (laughing) You're nuts!
REGIS: But, you've got the crew watching--
JEN: They don't watch. You have what they call a "closed set" and it's just the camera man and one other key focus puller, which obviously, tush out of focus!
REGIS: Could be anybody's tush!
JEN: Could be anybody...
REGIS: Could even be mine!
JEN: Yes!
REGIS: Something new! (Jennifer and audience laugh)
KELLY: But when you walked--
JEN: Yeah.
KELLY: Even though your tush is out of focus, did you find yourself walking and tensing it up?
REGIS: Like you do?
KELLY: Like I try to do, but then people think I have a limp!
JEN: (laughing) No, I don't think I did...I don't tense it up.
KELLY: You don't have to, right...
JEN: No, I don't think I've ever...
KELLY: Well, you do the yoga, I know.
JEN: I do do the yoga.
KELLY: Yeah. It's probably all tense on it's own (Jennifer laughs and actually looks kind of embarrassed)
REGIS: It just stays that way 24-7!
JEN: (softly) Okay...
REGIS: Now, here's a difficult argument. As you know, if you're living with someone or married to someone, these arguments can come up at a moment's notice. Somebody makes a little mistake, the other one gets offended, and before you know it, you've got an argument.
JEN: It's war.
REGIS: And it's a break-up. Now, this one takes place over some lemons, right?
JEN: Yeah. Well, sure...
REGIS: You told him that you wanted 12 lemons.
JEN: That's right.
REGIS: He brings home 3.
JEN: That's correct.
REGIS: And this is what happens.

--Plays clip where Brooke rushes into the living room, upset because Gary only got her three lemons when "Baby wanted 12."-
REGIS: He's pretty slick! He's pretty slick, but the woman asked for twelve lemons.
KELLY: Baby wanted 12 lemons.
JENNIFER: Baby wanted 12!
REGIS: And, it's enough to cause The Break-Up, which you'll see opening on Friday. Jennifer, you're a doll. Thank you very, very much! (shakes hands with Regis) Jennifer Aniston, everybody!
JENNIFER: (Kelly starts to just blow Jennifer kisses, but Jen reaches for Kelly's hands) I can shake your hand, I'll wash...
KELLY: Wash your hands!
REGIS: Jeanne Tripplehorn, up next!