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The
saucy star of Friends falls in love with the wrong guy in The Object
of My Affection.
By
Cindy Pearlman
While
sitting pretty in the hit NBC sitcom Friends for the last four
years, Jennifer Aniston has been steadily been launching a movie
career. This month her new comedy, The Object of My Affection,
opens. We caught up with her and dished about friends, fans, and bad
hair days.
Do
you have it all?
I have a lot to be thankful for, that's for sure. Friends allows me
to go back and forth between TV and movies. The movies just came
about beautifully. But I'm not too comfortable, I don't ever want to
have everything. My mind is going, What's next?
Where
is the single weirdest place you've recognized?
Butt-naked in a sauna. This woman came up to me and asked, "Are
you Jennifer?" I was like "Yep, All of me. Every
bit." It was such an odd place to meet someone.
What
have you read about yourself that drives you nuts?
I hate when I read, "Try that Jennifer Aniston diet."
There was no diet. The media projected as image of me, saying this
is the way would should look in order to be successful and loved.
That's not what I ever wanted to promote. You should just be
yourself.
Tell
us about The Object of My Affection.
It's about a woman falling in love with her best friend, who's gay.
It's almost a true-to-life movie. I know women whom this has
happened to-they know the guy is gay and yet they wish things could
be different.
Your
character is pregnant in the film.
Yes, and I really did feel pregnant. The nine month pad weighed like
13 pounds. So my lower back was definitely sore.
Did
you have strange cravings on the set?
It was a great excuse to eat M&M's.
Where
did [your boyfriend] Tate Donovan take you on your first date?
Out for Japanese noodles-I don't like noodles. There we were at a
strip mall: I was all dressed up, he was casual. Tate had planned a
low-key date to seem down to earth. We had a great time.
When
did you first feel famous?
The summer after Friends aired. I was trailed by a group of people
in a pharmacy. I was standing there with my toilet paper and Q-Tips
and said, " We waited for you. We followed you."
What's
going on with Friends?
The show is still good. Everyone is so committed. We went through
some troubles in the second year. Now we know we just have to stay
true to our characters and the stories. For awhile, we had a lot of
celebrity guest stars, I don't think we needed to do that.
Why
did Ross and Rachel break up?
It sort of ended because of emotional pride, not because they
weren't right for each other. That scene was so hard to film. David
made me cry for real. I would love for them to get back together at
some point.
Whose
hair did you love when you were a teenage?
Farrah's [Fawcett] hair. I had a big Barbie head, and I would put
pink curlers in her hair and wrap the bangs around them to get the
Farrah thing down. I tried this on my own hair, too, but it never
worked. You should never copy a style.
How
did you feel when girls copied your 'do?
I felt bad and wanted to say, "We all have different hair. Try
something that suits your hair." Certainly my hair wouldn't do
in other styles. I wanted to tell them, "Even I have problem
hair."
Jennifer
Aniston has bad hair days? Shocking!
Are you kidding? I think I'm having one today because I didn't
blow-dry it. It's frizzing!
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