The 'Cake' actress talks about her unappreciated first love and is grateful to find love again in her actor beau Justin Theroux.
- Jan 9, 2015
AceShowbiz - Jennifer Aniston opens up on her first love who died of a brain tumor. "He was my first love - five years we were together," she reveals to New York Times in a new interview. She added, "He would have been the one. But I was 25, and I was stupid. He must have sent me Justin to make up for it all."
The actress who gets a lot of Oscar buzz for her role in indie drama "Cake" is now happily engaged to actor Justin Theroux. "It's a rock, I know," she says of her engagement ring. "He rocked it up. It took me a while to get used to it. I'm not a diamond girl. I'm more Indian jewelry and stuff."
Of her new movie role which sees her far from Hollywood glamour as she ditches makeup and sports scar on her face, Aniston sees it as her best chance to "take away the cloak of Rachel." She explains, "You have to do something really dark to be taken seriously, I guess."
"If you're in someone's living room every week for 10 years and every day on God knows what network, people are going to have a hard time saying, 'O.K., we're going to see you do what now?' without making associations," she adds, referring to her longtime appearance on "Friends".
"It's a Catch-22. It's like: 'I know I can play this part, you just have to let me.' And then it's 'I can't let you play that part, because I've never seen you do it.' There were jobs that I really wanted and would fight and fight for and then the obvious previous Oscar winners would get them."
Another thing that the "We're the Millers" actress is frustrated about is being compared to Angelina Jolie who is now married to ex Brad Pitt. "It's ridiculous - that the two names have to go into the same sentence and there has to be a compare-and-despair thing," she says.
