Jennifer Aniston calls tabloids a soap opera that you do not sign up for
Jennifer Aniston was on both Good Morning America and Regis and Kelly today. She’s promoting The Bounty Hunter, which is out this Friday and looks incredibly predictable. Alice in Wonderland will probably be top at the box office again this weekend, but I bet Bounty Hunter will be second or third.
I try to give Aniston a chance, but her interviews are usually hit or miss. She’s best when she knows the talk show host and feels comfortable with them, like on Oprah or Ellen. It sometimes takes a while for her to warm up and she can give awkward, kind of halting interviews when she’s out of her element, like on Letterman. (She’s on Letterman tonight so we’ll see if she does any better this time.) Today on Regis and Kelly she was decent if a little reserved at first. She warmed up when she started talking about her co-star Gerard Butler. On GMA she was more open and comfortable with host George Stephanopoulos. On both shows she wore a short sleeved black dress that was hiked to about 3/4 of the way up her thigh when she sat down. Aniston has gorgeous gams but that look is getting a little tired for her. (You can watch the GMA interview online.)
On Regis, they showed the photos from inside her newly redone home that were in Architectural Digest, and also discussed her slit to there Golden Globes dress. “I wasn’t afraid [of the dress opening up]. We were bullet proof by that time.”
She didn’t say much of interest on the show until she talked about the Oscars and how she hung out at Courteney Cox’s house to watch the ceremony. “I thought [the dresses were] beautiful. I loved Sandy Bullock, Demi Moore, I thought they were gorgeous.” As for how the Academy Awards went, she said “it was interesting. A lot of dancing… didn’t you want a little more of [hosts Baldwin and Martin]?” She said she watched the ceremony at “Courteney’s house… We usually do a big old gathering. We usually have a night when where if we’re not going out [we get together]”
On Gerard Butler cheating on his diet
When Gerard Butler’s name came up, Aniston lit up and started to talk. When they first mentioned him she she let out an enthusiastic “Ow!” in response to the audience cheering. She said “He’s masculine, and lovable and soft at the same time.” Kelly asked for dirt on Butler as he’s coming on the show on Thursday and Aniston said “ask him about how his training went throughout the Bounty Hunter… for his diet, or his commitment to his diet. I’ve never seen someone sneak and hide in corners more in my life. Tim, his trainer… even took bread out of his fridge and stuff. He likes sweets, he’s really kind of cute.” She then put on a faux Scottish brogue and said “cake and he just gets so excited! Literally he’s like ‘don’t tell [my trainer] Tim.’” Aniston said that she once put a note in a cupcake on set that said “are you sure you want to eat me?” She quipped “we never saw the cupcake again.”
On GMA she was more comfortable and chatty. When asked about Butler she said she had a “ball” with him on set and gushed “he’s just lovely, he’s just a down to earth, sweet, no pretension and just kind of easy, funny.” They showed the sexy photoshoot she did with Butler for W and she said that the cover photo was painful to shoot due to the position of her foot. “The pained expression on my face is kind of real.”
On “the tabloid chatter”
When asked about the tabloid chatter, Aniston asked “what chatter? I hear about it, I don’t read it. You have to get better over time. You have to… build up a tough skin…. We work really hard on our jobs… you don’t want to be known as sort of a ‘tabloid face.’ That sort of distracts from what you do and what you work really hard at. Which is our movies… It’s almost like another job that you have not chosen to be a part of. It’s a soap opera that you do not sign up for.”
They also showed the photos of her house from Architectural Digest, which she seems to be very proud of. She said that she was involved with the design of the home “from day one” and brought two binders full of material for the interior designer.
When asked if Aniston would make an appearance on her best friend Courteney Cox’s hit ABC show Cougar Town, she said “maybe, anything’s possible.”
Aniston has this way of blinking with super wide eyes that makes it look like she’s fighting off the Botox. I first noticed that when she was on Oprah, and it was also pretty evident in her interviews today. It probably keeps the wrinkles at bay, but it has this way of making her look like a deer in headlights. I like her but she’s got to work on being less sensitive to the interviewer and bringing her A-game from the start. She’s definitely at least close friends with that rogue Gerard Butler because she sure loves talking about him.
Jennifer Aniston is shown out in a white coat in NY yesterday. Kaiser informs me that the coat is Vivienne Westwood and that it’s buttoned incorrectly and would look gorgeous if it was properly draped. Credit: PCNPhotos.com. Other pictures are screenshots from her GMA interview
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