Jennifer Aniston no Tonight Show com Jay Leno (agosto/02)

The Tonight Show (8/8/02)

Leno: My first guest stars on the hit show, Friends. She’s starring in a new movie, The Good Girl, which opens - y’know, the worst part of this job is, you see movies that are, like bad and you have to go, “Oh, that was, uh, good.” And you see movies that are just great and they gave a performance of a lifetime. Well, that’s what she did in this one. She’s just marvelous. Please welcome Jennifer Aniston! (The audience cheers, Friends theme plays, she comes out, etc.) Hey baby girl! (they hug) There. (gives her the mic) Thanks for coming! Thanks, uh, I know you’re not feeling well. I appreciate you coming and not canceling.

JA: I’m feeling better.

Leno: That’s good. Why are you sick? What do you have?

JA: What do I have? What do I have? Should I sit over here? (leans away from him)

Leno: No, no.

JA: I think I’ve just been doing a lot of press, you know -

Leno: Yeah.

JA: For the last few - last five days.

Leno: Yeah.

JA: Lots of airplanes, and you know, sick people...

Leno: And you don’t like the flying, do you?

JA: I’m still nervous still when I come to your show.

Leno: Why are you nervous?

JA: I don’t know! You’re so nice!

Leno: Well...

JA: It’s so hard. Anyway.

Leno: But, but, but, you don’t like to fly, right? It’s not actually not liking to fly, it’s like a phobia?

JA: Yeah, a phobia. I’ve actually, uh, done the hypnotist thing and -

Leno: You did?

JA: Oh yeah.

Leno: Does it work?

JA: No.

Leno: No. Well...

JA: I, actually, we were flying from Toronto to New York and they, it was like an electrical storm, a thunder storm.

Leno: Right.

JA: And they closed all the airports. So it was like that moment of well, do - what do you do? They recircled for an hour in the thunder storm. We felt like a pebble in a tin can. (Leno makes an airplane-going-crazy motion) I don’t know how to describe it. We landed, I cried, and the pilot actually had to come out. Miguel Arteta, who’s the director of The Good Girl -

Leno: Yeah.

JA: We were hugging each other, and he said he crossed himself for the first time in twenty years. I mean, it was just, y’know.

Leno: The pilot came back and hugged you.

JA: I hugged him! He saved our lives!

Leno: That’s how men are. That’s how men are. They’re in a plane in the middle of an electrical storm, and they come back and hug you. This is after it landed.

JA: This is when it landed.

Leno: Oh, I see. That’s a nice touch, for the pilot to just come -

JA: I think he just felt bad.

Leno: Did he come to your hotel room?

JA: No. He came to my hotel room, tucked me into bed, and then it was all fine.

Leno: What good service. I tell you, that first class is great. That’s great. So you tried the hypnotism, that didn’t work.

JA: No, that didn’t work.

Leno: Did you try other things?

JA: I took antihis -

Leno: Did you get drinks?

JA: Are you kidding? That doesn’t - I do, sometimes. Not liquored up.

Leno: Yeah.

JA: I’ll have a cocktail... Uh...can you imagine? Me liquored up? Sloppy...

Leno: I just like liquored up. I just like the expression “getting liquored up.”

JA: Hehe. There’s this anti-anxiety medication that -

Leno: Doesn’t work?

JA: It’s like, you still have your anxiety but you can’t move. So it’s like trapped in a body.

Leno: Yeah.

JA: Have you ever seen that tv show?

Leno: So you get the anxiety with the diarrhea, which isn’t a good thing.

JA: Then you can’t get up!

Leno: So you decided, so you decided to read the symptoms and it’s not good.

JA: Yeah, it’s not good.

Leno: Now are you doing a movie now with Jim Carrey?

JA: Yes, I am. We started yesterday.

Leno: So that’s a whole other -

JA: A whole other thing. We’ll be back here, probably, a year from now.

Leno: So that’s like a crazy comedy.

JA: A crazy comedy! He’s like a genius. He’s a physical comedy genius. He’s a, I mean, a comedic genius.

Leno: No, he is. When we would do the clubs, he would just do some straight impressions. He would just turn around, turn around, go like this, and he would look exactly the same.

JA: (laughs) Yeah.

Leno: But oh my gosh, he would go, he would go, he would look different, maybe just his face.

JA: It’s true! Without any masks or anything. It’s unbelievable.

Leno: What kind of, what kind of part do you play in this movie?

JA: I play the girlfriend. You know.

Leno: Mmm-hmm.

JA: And it was odd, because, y’know, our first day, a very physical day. It’s a physical comedy. And basically, I have, y’know, my knees bruised, I ended up having kneepads on, and my back was just ripped to shreds. I was dragged through the carpet, through four carpets, you know...

Leno: This was for the audition?

JA: No, no. I got it though!

Leno: I’m sorry. I heard the kneepads and I just thought -

JA: Oh, I gotcha! (makes a “whoosh”, over her head thing)

Leno: We’ll take a break, more with Jennifer after this.

Commercial Break

Leno: Welcome back, we’re talking to Jennifer Aniston. Her new film is, uh, is The Good Girl. Boy, I really like this movie. I was like, I don’t know what I’m seeing and I’ll go see it, I don’t know what this is going to be. It really moved me because I come from a small town and I know that feeling. Tell people what the movie is about.

JA: Uh, basically, it’s an exploration of depression. This young woman, who is, feels trapped in her life, and is desperately trying to find passion again, and find herself again. In doing so, without the proper tools, she just seems to make many, many wrong mistakes in, in the process. It’s a beautiful movie.

Leno: Yeah, and you kinda get the sense that - and you play an ordinary, kinda, looking person. It’s not a glamorous movie, it’s just a nice, ordinary girl who lives in a small town, a little frumpy...

JA: Gee, that’s mean!

Leno: Well, but, but it worked, you convinced me.

JA: Where are you from?

Leno: I’m from Hanover, Massachusetts. [?]

JA: Oh.

Leno: But the name of the town, of the store you work at, what’s the name of it?

JA: Retail Rodeo.

Leno: You know, it’s like, it’s not quite a K mart.

JA: Like a Walmart...

Leno: It’s like a big giant, big giant stores and everybody looks depressed all the time...

JA: Yeah.

Leno: It’s very funny, the characters in the film.

JA: Brilliantly written and played.

Leno: And I read that this was your first love scene in a movie, a first -

JA: Yes. First time. I was a movie virgin. And same for this young Jake Gyllenhaal. We were both pretty nervous. It was quick though, really quick.

Leno: Yeah, first time, it usually happens like that. A lot of guys are like that.

JA: Yeah.

Leno: I’m thinking, I guess that’s true.

JA: What?

Leno: The first time you’ve been in a movie love scene.

JA: Yeah. Where we were actually in bed. Y’know, Rock Star, that wasn‘t actually, that wasn’t naked. (says it sorta like “nked”)

Leno: So you were naked in this -

JA: I wasn’t actually “nked.” I was (does quotes) playing naked.

Leno: You were playing naked?

JA: We had all these things -

Leno: It’s like with your father. “Dad, we weren’t naked, we were playing naked.”

JA: “We were just playing naked!” We had this thing that [something] Riley actually calls our chastity pillow.

Leno: What’s that?

JA: Well, you had pillows placed between you, shorts on, something covering here, arms placed strategically...

Leno: Yeah.

JA: And the pillows, we had four of them, and the director, Miguel, says, “You’ll have to take some of them out. It’s like, it looks like you’re doing your knees. It just doesn’t look real.” We took, we took a couple of pillows out. That was a good story.

Leno: I’ve never heard that.

JA: Well, it’s one of those...

Leno: I just like the term “we’re playing naked.”

JA: Playing naked...

Leno: It’s a good excuse.

JA: It’s a movie! It’s movie magic.

Leno: We have a clip. What are we going to see?

JA: This is, uh, this is right where they’re getting to know each other. She’s met this young man, she’s driven him home, and he invites her in. Into, uh, his bedroom.

Leno: Let’s take a look.

(Clip.)

Justine: What’re your folks like?

Holden: They’re ok. They don’t get me. I mean, they’re all right -

Justine: My husband doesn’t get me.

Holden: Since when do you have a husband?

Justine: Since seven years. He’s a painter.

Holden: What’s he paint?

Justine: Houses. He’s a pig. He talks but he doesn’t think. I’m sick of it. I was looking at you in the store and I liked how you kept to yourself. I could see in your eyes that you hate the world. I hate it too.

(End of clip.)

Leno: It’s the same person! That’s great. So you’re finally no longer on Friends, huh?

JA: No longer!

Leno: Wow.

JA: I carried that baby for nine months, nine months practically.

Leno: Really.

JA: Well, it felt like it. All year, eight months of our show, still one month shy.

Leno: Can you give us any clue who you wind up -

JA: I have no clue.

Leno: Oh, so you have a clue!

JA: I have -

Leno: Oh what a great actress. (points at her) Did I tell you? See what I’m saying?

JA: You know, they may just now know.

Leno: You mean -

JA: I mean, the writers know. We get our first script next week.

Leno: Oh, ok. You haven’t started yet.

JA: We start next week. So definitely, they’ve figured it out.

Leno: Yeah.

JA: During the summer.

Leno: So this is the last season for sure, you think, you know -

JA: Well, you know... I say that today.

Leno: Yeah.

JA: It seems like our last season and in our minds it’s our last season. (Audience goes “awww”) I know.

Leno: You got an Emmy nomination. Congratulations on that.

JA: Thank you.

Leno: I guarantee that’s not the only nomination you’ll get this year. That was great, that was just great.

JA: Oh, thank you.

Leno: I know you gotta go, thank you very much. ... Jennifer Aniston!