It’s been 25 years since the sitcom Friends first leapt onto our screens and into pop culture. Yet these days, Jennifer Aniston still attracts more tabloid attention than almost anyone else in Hollywood.It’s true, the 50-year-old California native was the only Friends cast member to successfully transition to the big screen, with films such as The Break-Up (2006), Horrible Bosses (2011), We’re the Millers (2013) and Dumplin’ (2018), but it’s not just Jennifer’s work choices that have made her a tabloid staple.
How do you fly under the radar when you’ve married Brad Pitt (2000-05), dated actors (Tate Donovan and Vince Vaughn), musicians (Adam Duritz and John Mayer) and then married another high-profile actor, Justin Theroux (2015-18)? Maybe that’s why it’s so surprising when you finally meet Jennifer in person – in the corner of the Wallis Annenberg Centre for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills where Apple TV+ just screened her upcoming series The Morning Show for the first time – that you quickly discover she’s not defensive or resentful but funny, relaxed and seemingly at peace with living her life in the glare of the spotlight.
“Oh my gosh, where do I begin?” she muses with an endearing folksy charm that downplays her wit. “Look, I’ve been doing this for 30 years and I have been under the microscope for all of it, so regardless of the quality of the material, at a certain point – and it’s not always easy to do this – I have to turn the noise down and just do my work as honestly as I can,” she offers. “So, there are moments when you feel like the belle of the ball and other moments when you feel like you’re not up to par, but then isn’t that part of life for all of us?”
This story is from the November 2019 edition of The Singapore Women's Weekly.
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