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Airdate January 15, 2004
Diane Sawyer: And tonight, you might call her the girl of the moment or, as the famous song from her famous sitcom says, the week, the month or even the year. She has a new movie, Friends last season, the picture yourself reality of Brad Pitt as your husband, but it occurred to us as much as we see of her, we don't really know what's under the famous skin. So tonight, getting to know the real Jennifer Aniston.
(a few clips from Friends)
DS: (voice over) It's hard to believe she's been making us laugh for ten years. The fresh-faced girl every woman in America wanted to be, the funny girl every man in America hoped would move next door. Back in 1994, she was just one of the tiny tribe of unknown actors walking on to Stage 5 at Warner Brothers. Aniston, only 24, already bore the scars of 3 cancelled series, but everything changed that first night, when she made her first entrance into Central Perk...
(scene from the Pilot, where she walks in Central Perk in her wedding dress)
DS: (voice over) Quirky, high-sprung Rachel, wandering into the lives of her new best Friends...
(in the episode)
Monica: Rachel?
Rachel: Oh my God, Monica, hi! Thank God! I just went to your building and this guy with a big hammer said you might be here and you are, you are!
(cuts to Jen watching this scene in a small monitor)
Jennifer Aniston: (high pitched tone) "God, Monica, hi!" Why did I talk up here? (Diane laughs) That whole show I noticed, I'm talking up here!
DS: Nervous?
JA: I don't th- I must have been. (sighs)
DS: (voice over Friends clips) Flash forward a season, to episode 31.
DS: The memory lane...
JA: The memory lane...
DS: (voice over the final scene of TOW Ross Finds Out) A romance begins and a comic duo. A poignant retreat heading straight toward that historic first kiss with Ross...
(Jen laughs while watching Rachel trying to get the Central Perk door open)
JA: I forgot how kinda powerful that little scene was!
DS: Days now, 'till the final episode is taped.
JA: (nods and smiles) Yep.
DS: Have you thought about the morning after?
JA: God... no! I'm just hoping I'll get through the night! You know?
DS: (voice over, Jen's eyes start to well up) Just say the word 'Friends' and to her dismay, the tears begin.
JA: I'm a fan. (claps) Yipes... I should have a shock thing around my neck, like those dogs, when they start to bark. When I start to cry, I just get electrocuted.
(clips from Along Came Polly)
DS: (voice over) No matter that Jennifer has plenty to distract her, a new movie coming out this week, a riotous comedy, Along Came Polly. She's the eccentric, free-spirited Polly, who loosens up a straight-laced Ben Stiller. Think the 'Odd Couple' meets 'Something About Mary'. On steroids.
DS: What is your threshold on intestinal disorder jokes? (Jen laughs) Are you an easy laugh? Can they get you every time?
JA: I am such an easy laugh! I am, you know, I am the one who has the fart machine and the fart sludge and that's the stuff, I make a pretty big fool of myself laughing ridiculously hard!
DS: (voice over Friends clips) It's one of her great strengths that even when the laughs are broad, something about her stays mysterious. Is she a little bruised by life or seriously shy? Sitting with us, she's utterly charming, but also a little restless, about to run away.
JA: I'm absolutely uncomfortable. I mean, I- you couldn't be sweeter and kinder and... I'm just-
DS: Miserable right now?
JA: Not miserable, I just... I don't know!
DS: (voice over a few magazine covers she's been on) And the reigning cover star of so many magazines says "Whatever you see on camera, don't be fooled." A little girl with pudgy cheeks and frizzy hair still lives inside.
JA: So the fact that I, all of the sudden, became a hair... what do you call it?
DS: Thing.
JA: Thing. It's kind of ridiculous, 'cause I never had good hair. It was always frizzy and kinky and purple and blue and awful!
DS: (voice over old Jen pictures) She says, until ten years ago she was an obsessive dieter.
JA: I was always a yo-yo dieter. I was, you know, a chubbier kid.
DS: Did you do drastic things to diet?
JA: No. Was I like bulimic or an anorexic? No. But I was a diets-aholic, definitely. Grapefruit diet, I remember there was the watermelon diet, the white grain of rice diet.
DS: (voice over red carpet clips) But these days she says it's different, she works out 3-4 days a week and has learned to make eating about life now, not a reaction to the past: a father who broke up the family and volatile mother.
JA: I wanna say to all these young girls there are so many struggles that everybody has, specially when- what you're feeling up? Are you feeling up a void? Is it your father leaving? Is it your fear of failure? Is that 'I will never be that thin' or 'I will never be as beautiful as you, whoever you are'? I think once you become- once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place, eventually.
DS: What do you love about yourself?
JA: I love a lot about myself.
DS: "Let me count the ways..." (laughs)
JA: "Let me count the ways..." I am a good, um, problem solver. And I'm a good mediator. And, um... what else do I like about myself? (pause) I'm not a yeller. I like that. I worked hard on that, not to be a yeller.
DS: (voice over clips from a few of her movies) And from Bruce Almighty to Rock Star, Aniston's insecurities off-screen are transformed into stunning confidence as an actor. This is that quiet little movie called The Good Girl. She won critical raves as a clerk in a discount store, wandering into adultery in a one-way life, that could only circle back.
JA: My instincts were just, right away, it was fearless. 'I have to do this' and then the fear sets in, you know? I don't mind not having a lot of confidence, truly, I mean, it sounds really weird, but I like my stumbling, it sort of leads me to great places, you know? I'm intimidated by really confident people, I like people that are- who have a little- who ask questions or aren't so sure. I always feel more comfortable. (laughs) I'm not riddled with fear either, suddenly I'm like this big old sacredly cat! You know, but-
DS: (laughs) You're not even confident of your fear here!
JA: I'm not even confident of my fear! Damn... it. (laughs)
DS: At one point Matthew Perry- I think it was Matthew Perry said something about you...
(clip from the Oprah show, in November 2003)
Matthew Perry: Jenny's a really hard worker. Y'know, Jenny, while being very sweet and stuff, has had some stuff in her life that she's had to address and she just has (clicks his fingers for emphasis) Y'know, and so, right in front of all of our eyes, I've watched Jen blossom into this beautiful woman.
DS: What was it?
JA: Everybody has their demons to sort of wrestle with, nothing out of the ordinary. There's a lot of problems out there that are a lot greater than mine, but you know... stuff. Just stuff...
DS: You look as if it hurts.
JA: I do?
DS: Yeah, you do...
DS: (voice over) When we come back: loneliness, meeting Brad and her anguish over the central relationship in her life. (back from the break, she and Jen are standing before this window with a view to NYC) We interviewed Aniston in a hotel suite overlooking all of her hometown, Manhattan. Landmarks for a girl who never dreamed of what was ahead.
DS: And you went to school over there? (points)
JA: I went to school over there and I went to school over there, at Lincoln Center of Performing Arts.
DS: Right. And you lived up there? (points)
JA: Lived up there, 92nd and Columbus.
DS: And the Jackson Hole, at which you waitressed-
JA: 85th and Columbus.
DS: Yeah? Were you a good waitress?
JA: I was not very graceful (Diane laughs), but I, y'know, had a lot of customers.
DS: (voice over old pictures) She even had a stunt as a telemarketer.
DS: What kind of telemarketer were you?
JA: It was for timeshares at a Pocono�s. And I was awful because I felt so terrible that I was interrupting their dinner, they would yell and scream at me and I would apologize profusely and hang up. And I didn't make any money. (Diane laughs) At all.
DS: (voice over the cover of Forbes magazine) Last year, the former waitress and telemarketer topped the Forbes list of the most powerful stars in Hollywood. A salary reported at 35 million a year.
DS: Are you good with money?
JA: I am, yeah. And I like to spend it! But I'm good with it. I do remember saying that I will never be financially dependent on a man, I was determined.
DS: (voice over a picture of her parents) A lesson, she says, learned from her mom, Nancy, a former model. Her father, a Greek-born actor, John Aniston. In the early years, she says, they had a home filled with laughter.
DS: What's your favorite memory of your family growing up?
JA: My favorite memory is when they would have poker parties, 'cause my dad is- was and still is on a soap opera and their actor friends would come and sing songs around the piano and play games, play charades, they were just funny! Fun people.
DS: (voice over pictures of her family) Like her godfather, another Greek, Telly Savalas. But when Aniston was 9 years old, she says one day she came home to an emotional knockout potch. As she remembers it, out of nowhere, her mother simply announced that her father had left. She and her mother were now on their own.
DS: That's how you found out?
JA: Mm-hm. Yeah. From a birthday party. It was quick. (laughs) There one minute and then boom (clicks her fingers) Yeah. I think it was like ripping off a band-aid, it would probably be easier that way than to sit down and, y'know... so it was pretty quick.
DS: (voice over family pictures) For an entire year, her father pretty much vanished from her life as he pursued a new relationship. And it seemed Aniston's wounds were hidden by her new role as class clown. Rebellion came later with wild hair, too much make-up.
JA: Just cover up as much of myself probably as I could, I think. You know?
DS: Were you... lonely?
JA: Yeah. There's always- I always have a thread of that in my life, feeling that loneliness. Not a sad lonely, but just like... I like it.
DS: (voice over family pictures) At home, the vulnerability of a classically beautiful mother pointing out that her daughter's eyes were too close together, her nose too big.
JA: She was doing me a favor, she was helping me out by telling me these things. Hey, give me hints, helpful beauty tips.
DS: Right.
JA: It wasn't about 'this is what your problem is', it's 'here, this is how you can help that'. That's probably why I wore so much make-up, I mean, my mom like, was, y'know, 'more make-up'. Beautiful, beautiful, exquisite woman, she doesn't need it, but... you know...
DS: (voice over family pictures) But she says she and her mother were joined at the hip until the mid 90's. By then, the awkward duckling had become a superstar and was in a desperate fight to have some privacy in her life, free of the prying, ever-present paparazzi. But she says her mother first gave an interview to a tabloid show and the, later, in 1999, against her wishes, wrote a book about raising her now famous daughter. To Aniston, it seemed like the kind of exploitation even your friends avoid. It would cause an eight-year rupture that lasts to this day. Aniston has refused to read her mother's book and hadn't seen the photos from it, the ones I had in my lap.
JA: Oh my God, where did you get that? (reaches for the pictures from Diane)
DS: I got that out of the book she wrote.
JA: Oh, Jesus, I've never looked at it... (starts crying)
DS: Look at those others.
JA: Wow... I never saw this, sorry (wipes her eyes while flipping through the pictures) See? Isn't she gorgeous?
DS: Absolutely gorgeous. And you said "My mom is very warm, loving, nurturing, wise, funny and old-fashioned. And when it got rough out there in terms of the career, she was the one who said 'keep going, keep going'".
JA: (nods) Yeah. She did. And she is all of those things. She made a mistake and just I don't think she knew any better, obviously.
DS: But are you surprised at yourself? That you can't-
JA: Let it go?
DS: Transform it. Redeem it.
JA: I've definitely... tried. I made the efforts and I sort of started- you know, it's that stubborn thing of 'well, I tried all my- I tried enough! Now it's your turn' You know? And so, maybe that's where we are and like I've said now we're sort of all standing in our corners, waiting for the other to approach, probably.
DS: What's the sentence you'd most like to hear her say?
JA: (thinks for a while) 'Oh, I'm sorry'... 'I get it'. It's that simple. But like, y'know, 'I really get it' (chuckles)
DS: (voice over pictures of her friends) Instead, she has a kind of family formed by a circle of loving friends from the old days, before sitcom stardom. At one point, they interrupted the interview.
(a howl is heard and Jen looks shocked and so does Diane)
JA: (starts laughing) Oh my God, I'm so sorry!
DS: What's that? The telephone?
JA: (getting it from her purse) We just got Sidekicks, my girlfriends, all six of us.
DS: It's a pager.
JA: That's a howl, 'cause, you know, you howl, we're girls, we howl. (under her breath) So unbelievable... Should we see who it was? (opens it)
DS: Yeah, let's see who it was. Let's see if there's a message.
JA: They're just, they're loving on me.
DS: Aw!
JA: Wishing me luck with Diane.
DS: How nice!
DS: (voice over red carpet clip with her and Brad) And there's someone else who is said to be looking for a way to heal the rift between daughter and mom. Her husband, Brad Pitt, who is famously close to his own parents. But on the day they got married, while Aniston's father was there, her mother was not invited. Nancy Aniston has still never met her movie star son-in-law.
JA: I never thought my mom would not know my husband.
DS: You know, listening to you talking, everything you've said so far makes me think that forgiving your mom is just about there...
JA: (smiles sadly) I... (moves her hands as if saying 'cut' and smiles) ...something that Brad has taught me, you know, forgiveness is a hard- (trails off)
DS: (voice over) So hard, it's even a hard sentence to finish.
JA: (sigh) One thing Brad would always say to me is that 'you know what, we're just gonna do the best we can'.
Male voice over: When we return, is Jennifer Aniston making an announcement or just dreaming out loud? When Primetime continues.
DS: Why is it so hard to believe that famous marriages and famous people live, in the end, where we all do: joy, annoyance, quirks and happiness earned one anniversary at a time. At one point I told Aniston that I had a clip from someone I talked to six years ago, someone who was just a heartbeat away from a first date with what would turn out to be the girl of this dreams.
JA: (looking at the monitor she was watching Friends in the beginning) Who is this gonna be? (sees Brad) Aw!
DS: (voice over) The topic was love.
Brad Pitt: Love is work, so you gotta make your choice, if that's what's important to you, you know? And you gotta be honest about it, if you find yourself going another way. That's all. It's very simple stuff, honesty, yet it seems to be the toughest thing to grasp. Honesty with yourself, how you're really feeling, honesty with others... otherwise you're better off alone, don't waste so much time.
JA: (teary eyed, smiles) You go! He's lovely, who is that?
DS: (voice over Brad and Jen on the red carpet) It was 1998 when Aniston first went out on a date with Brad Pitt. Arranged, only in Hollywood, by intuitive, matchmaking agents.
DS: You knew right away?
JA: Yeah. We both did, on our first date. It was weird.
DS: Did you say it or just...?
JA: No, thought it. I thought it. 'Hm, that's weird, that was a really easy evening, that was really fun'.
DS: 'Cause you said at one point: 'This has been the hardest year of my life, as well as the best', this was in the beginning of the marriage.
JA: It's hard, just getting used to the idea that you're married. 'Am I ready?' There's always this 'am I ready' question. I don't know, I thought I was ready.
DS: (voice over red carpet clips) Once again, that's classic Aniston, still loving to question and search, even when she knows she's living every girl's fantasy. She and Pitt recently moved into a 12.000 square foot house, redesigned by him.
DS: And do you love having a big house?
JA: Yeah. But I loved having a small house. I love having a room, like this (motions to the room they're at) is great, I'll love a hotel room, that makes me happy. I love that we have a dining room. I love that we have a room that we can- y'know, we love being in the same room. It's funny, we got a house with more rooms, but we still stay in the same room, together.
DS: Who's more neurotic, you or him?
JA: Oh, me!
DS: Are you a sleepwalker?
JA: Uh- huh.
DS: Serious?
JA: Yeah!
DS: I mean, like-
JA: I woke up one time outside of my house with the alarm going- the alarm woke me up. And I was out by the pool equipment (laughs)
DS: Really?
JA: It scared the crap out of me! Yeah. And Brad, screaming my name, because the alarm's going off and I'm not in bed. He was terrified.
DS: Do you talk a lot, too?
JA: I talk, yes, in my sleep. Very busy. Very busy in my sleep! (Diane laughs)
DS: And is he jealous?
JA: Brad?!
DS: Yeah! Who's more jealous?
JA: I think we worked on that one, we got rid of that one. I mean, I think jealousy is healthy to a point, but no... We've worked on that one, we knocked that one out.
DS: It was very interesting, because one point, somebody asked you recently, I think W magazine, if he was the love of your life... and you hesitated.
JA: No, I didn't hesitate. That was something that I hated reading. I can't imagine being with any other human being, I married him because he was the love of my life. And, you know, he's the most fun I've ever had. So when these things are written in magazines and taken out of context, and it's so frustrating, 'cause people then take it and run with it or if you don't, God forbid, thank him at an award ceremony, I mean, Jesus, we were divorced and moving into different homes!
DS: (voice over SNL clip) That's Jennifer Aniston on Saturday Night Live just last weekend, getting her licks into the paparazzi, who pest at her constantly about her marriage. And about babies: When? How many?
DS: You said, 'after Friends, I'm gonna have children'!
JA: Yeah.
DS: Is it still a duel between his seven and your two to three?
JA: Oh, no, that's gotten blown way out of proportion. I think we'll probably, who knows- we'd definitely love to have two at least. Brother and sister.
DS: (voice over Along Came Polly clip) In the mean time, her new movie, Along Came Polly, is a kind of comic holiday. As we said, about a girl who is restless and questions everything. A girl who reminds you a lot of, well, Aniston. But she says what really interested her was not self-portrait, but a shot at doing the salsa with old friend and co-star, Ben Stiller.
JA: The salsa dancing.
DS: The dirty dancing.
JA: A little dirty dancing. It's just kinda quirky. I just wanted to work with Ben!
DS: (voice over a Friends clip) But next week, Jennifer Aniston will be working with five of the actors she knows best in all the world before the last time... When we come back, she tells us something secret about each of her Friends, something they don't even know about themselves. (back from break) Before we leave Jennifer Aniston, the valedictory to that television phenomenon. As most of us know, next Friday the cast will be taping the final episode of the sitcom. And you kind of believe that 'I'll Be There For You' is not just the lyrics to their song, so we ask Aniston to go one by one and tell us something each of her famous friends doesn't even know about themselves. We started by asking about Courteney Cox.
JA: Something she doesn't know about herself? She does not know how gorgeous she is, has no clue. And I'm not talking physical, because that's right there in your face when you see it, it's all the way through. (Friends clip with Rachel and Phoebe) Lisa does have a big, huge heart. She likes to say that she's very cold and stand off-ish, but she's like a warm fire.
DS: (voice over Matthew Perry clip) What about Matthew, what doesn't he know?
JA: That he's alright. (looks down and covers her face, crying)
DS: (voice over) Perry has had a tough battle with addiction.
JA: (crying) He struggled...
DS: (voice over) When it hit, his fellow actors tried, but didn't know how to help.
JA: We didn't know. We weren't equipped, we weren't- to deal with it. Nobody had ever dealt with that. And... y'know, the idea of even losing him or- he's having a road, but he's alright.
DS: And Matt?
JA: I wonder if he realizes the depths of his talent. He's got a lot more in there, than just being funny. We tell him all the time how adored he is and how all the girls love Matty!
DS: And David?
JA: Schwimmer? He knows everything! (laughs) He's doing just fine. No, again- I wonder if believes he's gonna make an amazing husband and I think he will.
DS: And Jennifer?
JA: And she is...? (laughs) That she's okay. She's alright too.
DS: What was Friends? What was this thing?
JA: It is hard to find the word, what was Friends. Friends was... fantastic. It was... I bet I'll be able to say it was the time of my life.
DS: Aniston's new movie Along Came Polly opens around the country tomorrow.
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| my fav jennifer interview ever <3 thanks a lot. |
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-sunshine wrote: my fav jennifer interview ever <3 thanks a lot.
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| thanx for postin this is a lovely interview |
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| thanks a lot koukla!are u greek? |
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thanks a lot koukla!are u greek?
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