Jennifer Aniston Rewatches Friends, Along Came Polly, The Morning Show & More

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Jennifer Aniston takes a walk down memory lane as she rewatches scenes from her classic works including 'The Break-Up,' 'Horrible Bosses,' 'Friends,' 'The Morning Show,' 'Along Came Polly' and more.   Read Jennifer Aniston’s VF cover story here: https://vanityfair.visitlink.me/iKkqvk  Director: Funmi Sunmonu Director of Photography: Matt Kreuger Editor: Cory Stevens Talent: Jennifer Aniston Producer: Emebeit Beyene Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes Camera Operator: Oliver Lukacs  Gaffer: Nick Massey Audio Engineer: Justin Fox Production Assistant: Hollie Oritz; Lily Starck Set Designer: Cedar Jocks Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo Additional Editor: Samantha DiVito Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds, Andy Morell

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00:00When it came time for everybody to eat the dessert, LeBlanc also just eats whatever's

00:04in front of him. Like, it's not even like he fakes it. He really eats it. They couldn't

00:09get through it because they kept making each other laugh.

00:12Hi, I'm Jenna Aniston and I'm gonna watch some scenes from throughout my career. Oh,

00:18please don't suck.

00:30I mean, wouldn't everybody be feeling just the way she just looked?

00:39I'm gonna go do the dishes.

00:41Cool.

00:43It'd be nice if you help me.

00:45I have no judgment. You want to play video games, play video games. But this is such a frustrating...

00:49This was super fun. We had one of the best summers shooting this movie.

00:53Oh honey, I am so exhausted. I just honestly want to relax for a little bit. If I could just

00:57sit here, let my food digest and just try to enjoy the quiet for a little bit and we will...

01:05I'm already annoyed again. I'm getting hard to feel.

01:08Who cares?

01:09I care, all right? I care!

01:11A lot of this movie was Vince and I, we spent like two weeks with the writers. There was two writers

01:17in the room and we would read through the scene and then we would improv the scene. And then they

01:21would just write as fast as they can. And then this is sort of the whole movie was a result of those

01:27two weeks, but it also allowed for a lot of real conversations that couples have. Which I think

01:34it's why it hit home for so many for so many people.

01:37Play your stupid ass video game. I don't care. I'm done.

01:41What?

01:41I am done. I don't deserve this. I really do not deserve this. I deserve somebody who gives a

01:46shit. I'm not spending one more second of this life with some inconsiderate prick.

01:52I might have just gone through a separation. That little separation. I'm sure nobody

01:56remembers that. So, it was kind of cathartic to go right from that. And so, when they offered,

02:01when they came to me with the offer, they were a little nervous about making the offer because they

02:06thought, oh, is that insensitive? Is it inappropriate? But I actually thought, what a

02:11great opportunity. I knew it would actually kind of benefit me emotionally, just as a human being,

02:18and also serve the script and the character pretty well.

02:29Julia, you need to see me.

02:30Oh, shit!

02:37Sorry, Charlie Day.

02:37Uh oh.

02:38Still sorry, Charlie Day.

02:40We have a seat.

02:40To this day.

02:41That's what's brilliant about how this scene is written, because everything is completely

02:46inappropriate. And yet, all I'm trying to talk about is how I don't want to be unprofessional

02:51or make him uncomfortable in any way. And poor Charlie Day. Oh, he was such a good sport. I do

02:56remember adding the button under the desk moment. That was my idea. I think that's what is fun,

03:02because it was sort of, it usually is a man playing this kind of a character. We flipped the tables a

03:07little bit. It just allowed us to kind of go as far as we could possibly go, and which was really fun.

03:13Sure.

03:15Oh, poor guy.

03:20It's a little ridiculous, but look, it's a little ridiculous.

03:24I know that I like to fool around at work, right? And I might even, you know, I might even cross the

03:30line a bit. But the last thing that I want to do is make you uncomfortable. I mean, it's just not

03:35professional.

03:36Yeah, it's just not professional.

03:38I think I was always sort of seen more as a, like, a girl next door. If, you know, the ingenue.

03:46It was fairly fun to play something, somebody like this, because it's so far away from anything

03:50that I've ever, ever, that I am. And I think that's what the director liked, was that, oh,

03:55this is so not what we would expect from, from this gal. So it's like, that was the fun of it.

04:01So I think that's what made it more creatively exciting for me, obviously. I remember when I read

04:06this script, I was pretty excited about it.

04:09So from now on, what I would like you to do is just, is just tell me, you know, when and if,

04:15uh, I cross the line. Okay?

04:17And I fought for that wig, by the way. That was, that was, that was not an easy battle.

04:29I wanted her to look different. And I, and the, the, the, the argument from the studio,

04:34I'm sorry to call you out, was that we're just afraid it won't look like you. And I said,

04:38that's kind of the point. And I just still think it might look a little bit like me,

04:42but I'm glad I fought for it. And I stuck to my guns. I actually love all of these movies,

04:47all the horrible bosses. And a lot of these guys are my friends. So we had

04:51so much fun and that we consider each other like brothers and sisters.

05:01Check it out. Yeah. For my dessert, I have chosen to make a traditional English trifle.

05:05Wow. That sounds great. And what are you making Monica? You know,

05:09in case Rachel's dessert is so good that I eat all of it. There's none left for anybody else.

05:18The trifle was ridiculous in the best way. Rachel reads the recipe wrong because the pages get stuck

05:24together. So she puts, ends up putting like beef in the middle of a sweet treat trifle.

05:29Well, it's good. Really? How good?

05:45This was another one where we, when we shot the scene of when it came time for everybody to eat the

05:51dessert, LeBlanc also just eats whatever's in front of him. Like it's not even like he fakes it. He really

05:58eats it. They couldn't get through it because they kept making each other laugh. Because David said,

06:02David kept saying, whenever he said the line, it tastes like feet. That's where he couldn't,

06:06he couldn't quite hold it together. And because LeBlanc would just be

06:09barreled on through and he was just totally into it.

06:13It tastes like feet.

06:17I like it.

06:18Are you kidding? What's not to like? Custard? Good. Jam? Good. Meat? Good.

06:30Oh, this is one of the greatest times. I love it. This is one of my, this was the gift that keeps

06:35on giving. This is really one of the highlights of my life. It sort of set the tone for not only

06:41getting to work with an incredible group of people that became my true family. It was just,

06:45it brought so much joy to people, which was something just doesn't always happen. Sort of

06:51like lightning in a bottle. On many, many levels, this was extremely creative, creatively satisfying.

06:57We always fantasize about what it would be like to kind of go back in time, but it just wouldn't.

07:02It would never be the same.

07:10Alex, can you please just tell me what the fuck this is all about?

07:13God, do I really have to spell this out for you?

07:16Yes, please.

07:17Yes, because you're a man. You surveilled Bradley. Oops.

07:21Another funny show. Just had nothing but a barrel of laughs. A little bit more on the serious side.

07:27This is, this show really is a beast. Quite creatively challenging in the best possible way.

07:33To get to work with Ham and Reese and Duplass and Billy and Karen. It's just the dream. It's,

07:42it was like a dream cast.

07:43You surveilled Bradley, then blackmailed her into resigning. You silenced a journalist.

07:54I'm a journalist.

07:55It's the amount of work and it's the level, it's the depth of it. These scenes, it's all very emotional.

08:02It's a challenge because we're, we're basically mirroring what's happening a lot in the world,

08:09which is not always easy. And so it's like a fine line to kind of walk. We didn't sort of set out to,

08:14to be that show, but you know, once the balls were rolling and then the Me Too movement happened,

08:21and we've kind of had to represent that in the show, obviously.

08:24Do you want this vote not to happen? I can go right back in that conference room and delay it

08:27until we can figure this out. We, we can figure this out. We can figure this out.

08:36You did this. You did all of this. I can't, I can't come back from this.

08:41I did this to protect you, to protect us. Everything we have been working towards.

08:45Ham's just, he's a dream. He's fun. He's easy. He's so committed.

08:50He's one of the hardest workers and he's covered in fairy dust and he's just a great guy.

08:55And now he won't stop working. No, because remember there was that commercial for Apple,

08:58where he was watching all the Apple shows and he was like, come on Apple.

09:02And now, careful what you wish for. But that's just because he's so damn good.

09:13You were right about them, Edith.

09:15I'm so sorry. This is completely explainable.

09:18Okay, listen, listen, listen, you just have to understand something.

09:22She's brilliant. Nick Offerman, brilliant.

09:26We haven't done anything like this. Katherine Hahn, brilliant.

09:28I've been a couple before.

09:31This was a very enjoyable evening that, that we all had. It's just ridiculous.

09:36We barely could get through it without laughing. The whole movie was just sort of absurd.

09:40There's no judgment on you. We're no squares.

09:43I own a vibrator.

09:44That's right. She does.

09:45Vibrator. Awesome.

09:47I wasn't for it at first and darn things made in China, for cripe's sake.

09:51You know, when you've been married as long as we have,

09:53if you're looking for anything to spice things up a bit.

09:56There was a lot of this scene that was definitely improvised.

09:58Their reactions and every time they did a take, Nick and Katherine did sort of gave different

10:04reactions. And so that's what really screwed us up because you couldn't predict what they were

10:09going to say. And so it just led for us to just constantly be trying to hold our,

10:14hold our, can we say shit? Yeah.

10:16Hold our shit together.

10:16And tonight, when you brought up that big black baby maker.

10:21We got it.

10:22Loud and clear.

10:23Our vibrator is named Joe Morgan.

10:26We were picking up what you were putting down.

10:28Yeah. Same page.

10:31They're just brilliant. We had a lot of fun on that movie.

10:34Okay, so throw pillows go in this cabinet here.

10:46Oh, you don't, you don't sleep on these?

10:48No, no, they're...

10:49Decorative.

10:50Decorative.

10:51For who?

10:52And this is another one of my favorite movies that I had.

10:55We had the, I had the best time because A, I love Ben Stiller more than life itself.

10:59And John Hamburg, our director, so fantastic, who wrote the script.

11:03Who doesn't think that it's such a thing, all those decorative pillows?

11:06You're just like, it doesn't quite make any sense.

11:08So it actually made me rethink because I was, I was maybe into this look at the time.

11:13I just don't understand the point.

11:15I don't know. I mean, Lisa thought they looked nice.

11:18Oh, I see.

11:19Yeah.

11:24Yeah.

11:24Oh, there's a limp. I remember where the limp came from.

11:28I had broken my toe.

11:30So you see me limping throughout moments of this movie.

11:33At least I really see it right there.

11:34Because right after we'd finished all the salsa dancing, that was our first week of shooting.

11:40And then I remember breaking my toe thinking, thank God I broke it after I finished all the dancing.

11:46Hey.

11:46Psycho.

11:47What are you doing?

11:48Psycho.

11:48That's goose down.

11:49I'm liberating you.

11:52Try it.

11:52I think we just had a lot of fun playing off of each other.

11:56It was like really fun volleyball.

11:58It was just great chemistry.

12:00And it was also fun to try to see who could keep a straight face.

12:04But again, just an excellent scene partner, you know, collaborator.

12:07Driving a knife into a pillow is suddenly going to make me feel...

12:12Wow.

12:12That feels really good.

12:14Huh?

12:14Right?

12:15Ha ha!

12:16Yeah!

12:17What did I tell you?

12:18You know what?

12:19You're right.

12:19Go on.

12:20Bigger one.

12:20I want to do something like that again.

12:22Ben, come back.

12:23Ben, come back to comedy.

12:24Severance is fantastic.

12:26But let's, let's, come on.

12:28We need comedies like this too.

12:35I've had some really great opportunities.

12:37I've been really lucky.

12:38And these brought a lot of joy to people's lives.

12:41And it made me realize that we need more of these.

12:44The almighty comedy.

12:45The almighty romantic comedy.

12:48And dark comedy.

12:49The hard R's.

12:50I love a good hard R comedy.

12:52Who doesn't?

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