In 1994 before Jennifer Aniston was cast in Friends, she was a regular on a mildly amusing sitcom allied Muddling Through. When Friends came along, she wasn't guaranteed the part of Rachel; in fact, she was in "second position," which meant that when the cast shot the famed promotional pictures cavorting—as friends do—in a fountain, she had to sit out half of them in case the other show was renewed. "I don't think anybody thought Friends become what it did," she remembers. "It's all good, though. It's nothing but blessings." She starts to laugh. "But seriously, who actually dances in a fountain?"
Suffice it to say, Jennifer has muddled through rather well. She, of course, spent a decade on Friends, arguably the most popular sitcom of all time, which, in its final two seasons, earned her $ 1 million an episode. She married Brad Pitt in 2000; started a production company, Plan B, with him; starred in lour films (RockStm\ The Good Girl, Bruce Almighty, Along (Mine Polly); divorced Pitt in 2005; and starred in four more films {Derailed, Rumor Hits It..., The Break-Up, and Friends With Money). Then she took a deep breath. Last fall, she codirected a short film, Room 10, starring Robin Wright Penn and Kris KristofTcrson. And if you drive down Sunset Boulevard, you will be greeted by a smiling—and presumably well-hydrated—Jennifer on billboards for Smarrwater.
So after all of that ("Thirteen years. Wow, it feels like a second ago"), how would she like this story to begin? "Huh..." Jennifer ponders, a vision of toned limbs and tawny skin—and, yes, very good hair—in jeans, a lacy white Foley camisole, and "architecturally perfect" Azzedinc Ala'i'a wedges, throwing her legs over a couch in a suite at LA. s Beverly Hills Hotel. She grins. "I'm ba-aek!"
To say thai Jennifer Aniston is in a breezy frame of mind these days is an understatement. After taking a self-imposed break, she is ready to get back to work. And there's a lot of it. She is
currently filming a small role in He's Just Not That Into You, an ensemble comedy also starring Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, and Ben Affleck, adapted from the instaclassic dating book. "My character is in a relationship with someone who doesn't believe in marriage. It just doesn't make any sense to mc!" I his will be followed by Management, a romantic comedy with Steve Zahn, and Traveling, with Aaron Eckhart as her cinematic suitor. Then, if Jennifer has her druthers, it's on to her long-gcstating "labor of love," Goree Girls, which tells the story of "one of the first female country-western bands that started in prison." An all-Jennifer-singing, all-Jennifer-dancing jailbird spectacular? "Yep. I can carry a tune, and I was known to throw out a jazz hand from time to time in high school. I'm not that coordinated, unfortunately, hence the comic relief that I turned into! But I've always, at least, entertained someone.
With all of these projects, Jennifer is playing to her strengths: a wryly funny, better-looking-than-most evcrygirl. After all, some of her best reviews have been for her performances as the dour checkout chick in The Good Girland the broke, pot-smoking maid in Friends With Money. "I like those roles," she explains, crossing her AlaYa'd feet and sipping a Smartwater. WI feel comfortable with them. They're more real. People can say. Oh, I have relatives like that, I dated a guy like that, or I have a friend like-that. They are relatablc." And Jennifer knows that her innate— against the 13-years-in-Hollywood odds—rclatability is her ticket. "You can bad-choice your way out of the business," she says with a chuckle. "I've had a couple of doozies, so I'm lucky I'm still invited back at all."
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