Matt Lauer: Behind the cosmetics counter at a desolate Texas retail store may be the last place you would expect to find Jennifer Aniston (he trips over her name) but in her latest film "The Good Girl",....I almost...I'll get the name out in a second...

Jennifer Aniston: That's good...(laughs)

ML: The actress sheds the familiar trappings of her "Friends" character to play Justine Last, a 30-year old woman unhappy with her dead end job and her marriage.

(movie clip)

Justine (talking to Holden): He's a pig. He talks but he doesn't think. I'm sick of it. I was lookin' at you in the store and I liked how you kept to yourself. I saw in your eyes that you hate the world. I hate it, too. Do you know what I'm talking about?

(end of clip)

ML: Jennifer Aniston, good morning. Nice to have you back.

JA: Good morning.

ML: Let me get into something I have been hearing a lot over the last week. Every time someone talks about this movie and your role, they say it's very "un-Rachel" like. It's not a Rachel role. Do you ever get tired of hearing that?

JA: Well, yes and no. I understand it, because, you know, I've been Rachel for 8 years.

ML: But you're an actress, people should think and assume you do a lot of different kinds of roles.

JA: I agree. I should just take you with me.(laughs)

ML: I could be your publicist.

JA: (laughing) You can be my talking head!

(studio people laugh)

ML: Do directors not send you scripts with these types of roles that often?

JA: No. Not at all. Not at all. That's why when this came it was such a ....I was so excited. I couldn't believe it was on my desk. I kept thinking that they sent it to the wrong person (laughs)

ML: The way I understand it, the director said that you would be playing a serious character, but one who is surrounded by kind of quirky, funny people.

JA: Right. Right. And he said I hope that's okay. You're gonna be the straight man and you're going to be surrounded by these cast of wonderful, adorable, dysfunctional clowns. And I was so excited. But the big question was, "Are you gonna be okay without looking...without your hair and makeup?" And it's like (laughs) that's what I look like all the time actually.

ML: You said, "NO!" Actually, No...You mean I'm not going to have hair people?(laughs)

JA: Just please let me have the wig!(laughs)

ML: Yeah, right!...tell me a bit about Justine. She's married..

JA: She's married...

ML: But as we've seen she's...

JA: Not the happiest...

ML: unfaithful...

JA: Well, she gets led down that road. Uh, she's frustrated. She feels she's lost passion and she's washed up at 30. You know how that feels??

ML: Thanks very much!

(studio crew laughs hard!)

ML:So I miss-pronounce your name once and I get taken to the sola-plexes??

JA: You see what happens?? No. No. That was just a bad joke. Too early in the morning.

ML: How different is she from Rachel? Just Kidding!

JA: Thank You, Matt!

ML: Tell me about Holden. That she comes in contact with at the Rodeo Retail?

JA: Retail Rodeo. Yeah, she's just sees some spark in this young man who's tortured and there's passion in him and she's just like a magnet, drawn to this, yet again, wonderfully dysfunctional, young man and just realizes that's too much for her.

ML: Let's take a look at a clip where she is talking about her life to Holden.

(movie clip)

(Justine and Holden are in a car. He puts his hand on her leg and then moves in to kiss her. She pulls back.)

Justine: Holden. I have a husband.

Holden: I thought you said he was a pig.

Justine: Well, I...

(He moves to kiss her again. Again she stops him)

Justine: Holden, I don't want to hurt anyone.

(He gets out of the car and walks off.)

(clip ends)

JA: (laughs) He seems like a fun guy!

ML: He's not a happy camper. (both laugh)

ML: This was shot in 33 days, this movie?

JA: That's correct.

Ml: The head of NBC Entertainment, Jeff Zucker, says he likes this schedule because it would allow you to go and continue to do movies and Friends for many years to come. That it would work out well. And you feel how about that?

JA: (laughs) 10 more years?? How many did you say? For the rest of our adult lives? Friends with colostomy bags!!

(laughs hard along with the studio crew)

ML: Is it the last season?

JA: Yes...(still laughing, not really paying attention to what he's asking)

ML: are you talking about a spin off?

JA: Yeah, we'll be in walkers!!....(she's kind of flustered now from all the laughing) Say again...what was your question?

ML: Is this the last season?

JA: Yes, this is the last season.

ML: Really, definite?

JA: I think so, as far as I know.

ML: Under what circumstances would you come back and do another season?

JA: I don't think any. It feels like we've done everything we could do with these wonderful six people. I think it's time to kind of bow out gracefully and sort of start tying them up and sending them off.

ML: ...(laughs)

JA: That sounded morbid didn't it?ML: Is that unanimous among the cast?

JA: I think so. It's gonna be...as much as we love we could probably do it for years and years more because we have so much fun. It feels wrong how much fun we have, but you know, don't overstay your welcome.

ML: Let me end on something very serious. Put up the picture...(he pauses) Do we have that? (pauses again) Oh, no. (the control room doesn't have a picture ready) We have a picture of you and Brad walking down the street with a full beard on him. Do you like the beard?

JA: I do like the beard, it's soft.

ML: You don't like clean-shaven Brad?

JA: I love all Brad. I love the many faces...and there are many...of Brad.

ML: Jennifer Aniston. Good Luck. This one is called "The Good Girl". Nice to have you here.

JA: Thank You.

(Matt Lauer then introduces the next story about Martha Stewart being sued by one of her stockholders over her whole insider trading thing. You can hear Jennifer in the background go, "Martha, Martha, Martha," with some pity in her voice. Quite funny.)