Jennifer Aniston: 'The Break Up' Helped Me Get Over Brad Pitt
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Jennifer Aniston seems to have found love again with Justin Theroux -- but back in 2005, she was still smarting from her devastating divorce from Brad Pitt.
She dusted herself off by signing on for, ironically, The Break Up, the hit 2006 romantic comedy costarrng Vince Vaughn.
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"It was a beautiful human story about a couple breaking up...You know, I was slightly familiar on the topic and the issue," Aniston, 42, confessed during her chat with James Lipton for her Inside the Actor's Studio appearance.
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"I honestly felt like, what a great way to sort of exorcise some of that," she said of doing the film after the end of her five-year marriage to Pitt, 47, who famously paired up with Angelina Jolie afterwards.
Even The Break Up's producers balked at asking Aniston to sign on for the flick given its sensitive subject matter, she revealed.
"I was like, why not? Turn the page, let's move on."
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Her romantic heartache made the role "easier" to do, she said. "I enjoyed it! You'd think otherwise."
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28Wow!!!! you people really need to get a Life.....I mean is it really that serious, what celebrities are doing with and in their lives that you all have to get upset with each other about people you really don't even know?.... Get a clue PEOPLE ALL OF THEM GET PAID FOR EVERY INTERVIEW, MOVIE, DIVORCE, MARRIAGE, CHILD, ETC... and you all sit here daily and discuss their lives for free...PLEASE. Oh and might I add that some of you should use this time to brush up on your spelling, english and typing skills...
Laurie: But if she hadn't answered it they (the Jen haters) would still turn it on her and say that she is just still so emotional about it that she can't talk about it, or some such cr@p. I think she answered it the best way she could. Besides if her ex and his current lady can talk about how they fell in love on set, etc then I think it's fair game she can talk about how she handled moving on after a big break-up. And again, at least she didn't single anyone out or act whiny about it. She said it was a good thing.
Okay, you were on Inside the Actor's Studio - but you didn't have to answer any Brad questions. PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM! PLEEEEEEEASE!!!!
Brad looks like a wax figurine. If you think he hasn't had work done you are crazy. Same with his, umm, err, cough- cough, "better half"...
wow Sofie and Julie need to put the haterade down. It's as simple as this, if you don't like JA, then don't click the articles or pictures. The only ones that are "pathetic" are you two.
@Sofie Allen LMAO Obsessed much????? You are the very example of the pathetic loosers Angelina and Brad have for fans.
It's been what, 12 years? She has to be the most pathetic woman in the universe if she is still talking about this.
@Sofie, so Jen is suppose to tell the interviewer NOT to ask about the film The break-up??? She is not allowed to be asked about the film because she filmed it a few months after she had broken up with Brad????? Well you better advise Brad and Angelina not to talk about Mr and Mrs Smith because they filmed this when Brad was still married to Jen and as we all know the media took the same approach with them and inmediately involved Jen in it. If anything they are as pathetic as Jennifer is for talking about that film. LOL Geez. Neither are mentioning each other and talking about previous work has nothing to do with wanting to use their exes for punblicity. BTW did you catch that Jen ALSO talked about Friends???? Does that mean she is using her previous work for publicity? Is she not allowed to talk about Friends because it was so long ago that she stopped working on the show.
Jennis got new lips LOL Watch out Nicole Kidman you have competion in your plastic world....
@Dyenne, thats because Jennifer had 110 times platic surgery and botox, Brad didnt. She would look like him if she didnt had so much done because shes manly you know, thats why some they call maniston ;-) Jennifer is the new Nicole Kidman hahahahahhahahaha Brad doesnt need that, hes aging gracefuly, hes not superficial like her, thats why he left her and her me-oriented world!
@JULIE ROBERTS, YOUR COMMENT IS AWSOME, I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! 100% TRUE!
@Dawn, i bet you cry now HAHAHAHAHAHA dont get too mad hun LoL
DAMN, Jennifer had WAY TOO MUCH PLASTIC SURGERY, she looks like a totaly different person! Call her Plastic Barbie! JENNIFER: you will never be a Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts, they laugh about you!
WOW she/huvane realy cant stop milkin it, shes such a Z-Lister! Brad said: i am realy proud of how they did the seperation and that they are still friends. So, she has nothing to be mad at him. Says everything we need to know, she just still needs Brad for the attention LoL ! @Annalee, shes answering that question because she allows them to question her. Its ridiculous. Its realy getting anoying! The Celebs KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO ASK THEM!!!!!!
She's answering a damn question, people, relax. She didn't mention anyone by name and spoke of it in a positive way. Get over yourselves. It's hysterical the way anti-Jen people jump on anything they can find...it was a classy way of answering a question designed to put her on the spot and she handled it perfectly.
July 07, 2011 - 10:51am Dyanne Triend Says: Brad looks 1000% better & happier since he divorced this woman, and she still looks the same (ugly) consider that she spends so much time doing yoga & pilates. She has a personal stylist and her hair still looks the same covering her face. Same color. Tell Jen to stop working out. I'll bet she will look 110% heavier.
turn the page, let's move on... so true!
Anomymous or "Julie Roberts", STFU already! Get a life and get of of the JA hatorade train already...everybody has moved on except you, leave Jennifer alone! She does not want to date you...get it through your head, there is lots of room in it (because apparently you have no brain)...men in white coats, please get this nut off the internet!!!!
But she never moves on - she keeps talking about Brad! Get over him and Angie. What's done is done. People need to stop talking about them and let it go!
hahaha...Brad is the happiest man on earth! Both Brad and Angie made each others dreams come true! Brad is like fine wine he gets more gorgeous and sexy as he ages...Angie is the most gorgeous, natural beauty on earth. She is talented, caring, loving mother and loves her Bradley so much just as he adores her! Jennifer after 3 nose jobs and pumping her face and lips looks like a middle aged woman which she is with a bloated face and a thick midriff w/o giving birth! Her new BF she got just to pimp her 15 minutes she is in the movie by being a 'homewrecker' is a perfect match for her looks...both short and ugly!!! All we want is for this aging, talentless TV actresss to stop stalking the JP's and their kids. How embarrassing for her to even mention the JP kids to pimp a movie. How dare she also set up her BFF she paid to take to Mexico to attack Angie and their kids. CH used to trash Jen ALL the time. She has the right BF and the right GF that suits her disgusting JEALOUS personality! Move on Jen and move on her pathetic fans! You guys should be happy for the "balding caveman" she snagged and HOPE he doesn't dump her too when his cntract is up with Huvane LOL