Also notice that she didn't dispute the reference to Senator's Wife. Interesting.

Can't watch the interview until later, what did she say about the Senator's Wife?

She didn't say anything, but the interviewer mentioned it as a project coming up and she didn't deny it.

This is one goof who will finally get the girl
Perennial doofus Steve Zahn woos Jennifer Aniston in Management
Steve Zahn is a man at ease with his goofiness. The 40-year-old actor has played stoner/ doofus/sidekick roles for the better part of his career, most recently in this year's Strange Wilderness, Sahara (2005), Employee of the Month (2004), Daddy Day Care (2003), Saving Silverman (2001) and on into pre-history.

His latest role, in the romantic comedy Management, opening Friday, comes as something of a departure. Cast opposite Jennifer Aniston, he plays the leading man-- sort of.

Sitting in a Toronto hotel room during the film festival where Management had its world premiere this month, Zahn shies away from the leading-man label. "I wouldn't choose a romantic comedy if I was playing the part of the guy that was slick and you know …" He waves vaguely to indicate everything he's not. "It wouldn't work. And it isn't a departure on one level ... I feel totally akin to the character."

Writer/director Stephen Belber felt likewise. He adapted and expanded his one-act play into the story of Mike (Zahn), a hotel night manager who pursues Sue (Aniston), a travelling businesswoman.

"I was aware as I wrote it that Steve Zahn is the guy who should be playing this role," Belber says. "He walks this fine line between goofiness and tenderness, and I think most people associate him with the goofiness, but I had seen him on stage years ago and I knew that he had this vulnerable man-child thing inside of him."

That side of Zahn had to be front-and-centre in every scene of the film, lest he come off as a mad stalker (a risk in almost any rom-com). He says it came down to ignoring the impulse to add layers to Mike, and instead to make the character as simple as his name.

"The more complicated my character was, the bigger chance it had of being creepy and that would be the kiss of death," says Zahn. "The movie would not work if you didn't really view this guy as completely approachable, vulnerable, what-you-see-is-what-you-get. He's a very honest guy. Everything I did I was conscious of that fact. Nothing could be too cool or have too much pretense."

That role falls to Woody Harrelson, a man with his own inner goof (eight seasons on Cheers will do that to you). In Management, he plays Jango, an intense yogourt mogul and the rival for Aniston's affections.

Zahn credits Belber's theatre background with helping to bring out the best in his performers. "He'd let you discover it in the same time he was steering it," he says. "It's an art form, it's a really learned thing to be able to talk to actors while they're working. You can't be egotistical, you have to let somebody else discover it and at the same time not let it go too long to where we're wasting time."

There's a pause. Did Steve Zahn just say "learned?" Fortunately, he's not wasting time, and is on to discussing the film's meaning. Management, which looks and feels at first like a run-of-the-mill rom-com, has some poignant things to say about letting go of the past and looking after yourself.

"These people have to find that happiness," Zahn says. "Only then are they able to love each other and commit to each other." Looks like the guy from Saving Silverman is growing up.

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