Aniston relishes reprise of raunchy role
Former Friends star expands on her bawdy of work playing a kinky dentist
Attention, Santa: Jennifer Aniston has chosen naughty over nice for the upcoming holiday movie season.
The one-time kooky Friends TV star reprises her role as the kinky movie dentist in Horrible Bosses 2. The portrayal continues her raunchy phase after playing a stripper in last year’s We’re the Millers and defining the female sex predator from 2011’s Horrible Bosses.
The sequel has Aniston expanding her bawdy of work to include even more salacious dialogue and a few inappropriate encounters of the graphically close kind.
She isn’t all about laughs, however. Aniston stars in Cake, portraying a woman in a chronic-pain support group. The film and her dramatic performance were well received at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be eligible for 2015 Oscar nominations.
“I love doing both,” Aniston said of comedy and drama during a recent interview. “One accesses one part of my brain, and the other accesses another.”
Round 2 of Horrible Bosses is currently on her mind. It has Dale (Charlie Day), Nick (Jason Bateman) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) becoming their own bosses as inventors of a Shower Buddy device.
When a devious mail-order multimillionaire (Christoph Waltz) rips them off, the three stooges kidnap the CEO’s son (Chris Pine) in an attempt to get their money back.
Besides Aniston, Kevin Spacey returns as a horrible boss now in prison for his sins. Jamie Foxx is back as the underworld fixer looking for another score.
The 45-year-old Aniston shared her thoughts:
On returning to play the vixen dentist:
“Yes, I was psyched,” said Aniston. “I didn’t get enough of her. It’s a little like an In-’N’- Out Burger.”
On making her dentist even more R-rated:
“The writers called me up and asked me, ‘How far can we go?’ ” said the actress. “And I said, ‘Go as far as you can and still stay in the realm, so it’s not insulting to the audience.’ ”
On her character running a session on sex addiction in the new movie:
“I think the intention was to seek help but then she realized this was like chum to her. This was a wonderful way for her to find more prey.” On the provocative language: “I find it extremely entertaining, the way she speaks, because to her she’s not saying anything inappropriate,” Aniston said. “For her, it’s like describing the ingredients to a wonderful soufflé or describing what we are going to do this weekend.” On her emoting style: “Any time I approach any character it is always grounded in reality coming from the situation,” she said. “There is comedy in drama and drama in comedy.”
On improvising with experts Bateman, Day and Sudeikis:
“The structure of it was there, and then we would volley back and forth, and we would do variations from take to take,” Aniston said. “When we saw the (final) cut it was surprise to see what they chose.”
On remembering what vulgarity she wouldn’t say, as revealed in the movie’s outtakes:
“It was either so bad or I didn’t understand it,” said a smiling Aniston. “OK, so I found out it had to do with gravy.”