Jennifer Aniston's Hollywood Rise_ RARE Interviews From Her Career

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00:03 Entertainment Tonight presents

00:04 E.T. Vault Unlocked, Jennifer Aniston.

00:07 That's me.

00:08 Oh, geez.

00:09 (laughing)

00:10 With never before seen interviews

00:12 that span four decades.

00:14 This is a result of bad plastic surgery.

00:17 Opening up about her life before fame.

00:19 I got good tips, I like meeting the people.

00:21 Her first big break.

00:23 This is not real life.

00:26 This does not happen.

00:27 And becoming a favorite friend on TV and off.

00:31 Sorry, I'm just being interviewed

00:32 and you know what, I can't concentrate.

00:35 Sorry, we just gotta get through.

00:37 (laughing)

00:38 She inspires me every day.

00:39 Every day. She's incredible, yeah.

00:41 Plus, stories behind her movie roles.

00:43 Just goes to show, being on a good show.

00:45 What it'll do for you.

00:47 And real life romances.

00:49 I'll run into Jen, she's a good friend.

00:51 Let all the secrets come out.

00:52 This is E.T. Vault Unlocked, Jennifer Aniston.

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00:59 I'm thankful for this unbelievable life that I have.

01:03 She's everyone's favorite friend.

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01:07 And for almost three decades now,

01:09 Jennifer Aniston has stolen America's heart.

01:12 She inspires me every day.

01:13 Oh, every day. She's incredible, yeah.

01:15 Oh, well, isn't that just lovely?

01:18 Jennifer Aniston is everything

01:22 that you would ever hope she would be.

01:23 She's won an Emmy.

01:25 Wow, thank you.

01:26 Thank you.

01:28 A Golden Globe and eight People's Choice Awards.

01:31 Life is so good.

01:32 Oh, yeah, I mean, I feel just so lucky

01:34 that I keep getting invited back.

01:36 And in just nine days,

01:38 Jen's back for season three of The Morning Show,

01:40 and we're giddy about what looks like romance

01:43 between her character and Jon Hamm's.

01:45 Honestly, let all the secrets come out.

01:47 Do you have more scenes with Reese or Jen?

01:50 I think I could say I have more scenes with Jen.

01:53 Yep, Jon joins a list of impressive

01:55 leading men opposite Jen.

01:57 Hi, I'm Rachel Green.

01:58 Oh, I remember you.

02:00 There she is with her ex, Brad Pitt, of course,

02:03 and with another love, Justin Theroux.

02:05 They met in 2007, but reconnected

02:07 on the set of 2011's Wanderlust.

02:10 My first impression when I heard Jennifer

02:11 is how spontaneous she is.

02:13 Spontaneous and down to earth,

02:15 but the real secret to Jen's success?

02:17 She seems a lot like someone either you're,

02:19 you know, marrying to, you know, family with,

02:22 wanna date, dating, you know,

02:23 she's got a little bit of the every woman in her,

02:25 which is nice.

02:26 Jen's also celebrated for her signature style,

02:28 classic black on red carpets.

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02:32 And her fit physique.

02:34 How'd she do it?

02:34 Just work out, take care of yourself, eat well,

02:38 and you know, I'm very disciplined.

02:41 As for cheat days?

02:42 Pasta, pizza, Mexican food.

02:47 Jen's also a player in the beauty game.

02:49 We were there when she launched her first perfume in 2011.

02:52 Of all the things that you sort of get approached

02:54 about this one sort of felt like organic and right.

02:59 Businesswoman, film star, endorsements,

03:01 all those residuals from friends.

03:03 Jen is worth an estimated 320 million.

03:06 And fans love her so much, when she joined Instagram,

03:09 Jen got a record breaking one million followers

03:12 in just five hours.

03:13 Did you think you were gonna break Instagram, seriously?

03:16 Did you fix it?

03:17 I did, I said I'd pay for it.

03:19 I said I'll pay for it, I'll fix it.

03:21 Well, Jen is also of course part of a Hollywood dynasty.

03:25 Her dad is late Days of Our Lives legend, John Aniston.

03:28 Her godfather, Telly Savalas.

03:31 And Jen is very proud of her Greek heritage.

03:34 Being a little Greek girl, I danced a lot of Greek dances,

03:37 so I was, you know, and took class in school.

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03:42 That school, LaGuardia High School,

03:46 the one depicted in the movie Fame.

03:48 And before rising to her own mega fame in the early 90s,

03:52 Jennifer did plenty of odd jobs.

03:54 There have been a few.

03:56 Telemarketing in like West LA was pretty brutal.

04:00 Before babysitting, I used to go buy groceries

04:03 for the little old lady that lived down the hall for me

04:06 on my floor.

04:08 But her favorite part time gig, waitress.

04:11 I got good tips, I got, I liked meeting the people,

04:14 it was just fun, I actually had a good time.

04:17 And I worked at a fun place too,

04:18 it wasn't a very, it was very casual burger joints.

04:22 This is not real life.

04:25 This does not happen.

04:27 That's Jen's first ET interview back in 1990

04:30 on the set of one of her first TV roles,

04:32 playing Ferris Bueller's sister

04:34 in the short-lived TV series adaptation.

04:37 Everyone's gonna be comparing it.

04:39 You can just like go a little bit overboard

04:40 and make it really crazy.

04:42 Makes it more fun for you.

04:43 I can't laugh too hard, it'll pop off my face.

04:46 Well, she did find the outrageous and funny

04:49 on the sketch comedy show, The Edge in 1992,

04:52 rocking an extra nose for one skit as she talked to ET.

04:56 This is a result of bad plastic surgery.

04:59 It's not often that you have an opportunity

05:01 to be this creative and free and look like an idiot.

05:06 I had been sort of caught in this stereotype

05:10 of playing like the sister or the girl next door

05:13 or the girlfriend of.

05:16 Unfortunately, the show was canceled after one season,

05:18 but that year, Jen landed her first major film role

05:21 in Leprechaun, followed by another sitcom,

05:24 CBS's Muddling Through, playing the offspring of an ex-con.

05:28 This is my other daughter, Madeline.

05:30 Enjoy everything.

05:32 Enjoy what's in front of you.

05:35 It just gets better.

05:36 Case in point, that series didn't pan out,

05:39 but during its 10-episode run, Jen found herself

05:42 in the mix for a show called Friends.

05:45 With tail between my legs, hat in hand,

05:48 went to the producer of the show I was on,

05:50 and I said, please release me from this show.

05:55 I love this show that I'm doing right now.

05:57 Nothing against your show.

05:59 I just love these people, and I am having so much fun.

06:03 And he said, he goes, I saw that show.

06:07 I'm gonna tell you something.

06:08 That show's not gonna make you a star.

06:10 (audience laughs)

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06:13 Nope, it made her an A-lister and a household name.

06:17 You're French in America?

06:18 I'm sorry, I'm just being interviewed,

06:19 and you know what, I can't concentrate.

06:21 Sorry, we just gotta get through.

06:24 (laughs)

06:26 September 1994 was ET's first visit on the Friends set,

06:35 16 days before the show's debut.

06:37 Over the next two decades, no other show

06:39 got to spend more time with this cast than we did.

06:43 Nice.

06:44 10 years, 236 episodes, until this day,

06:47 they're six friends we can't live without.

06:50 It's one of the most watched series on Max,

06:52 nearly two decades after the crew took their final bows.

06:56 Feels like yesterday, we all gathered together

06:59 and watched the premiere of the pilot.

07:02 Rachel?

07:04 Oh God, Monica, hi, thank God.

07:07 Jen and Courtney Cox auditioned

07:08 for each other's parts before convincing producers

07:11 of a role swap, and we can't talk Friends

07:14 without mentioning the Rachel haircut.

07:16 My hair was a mistake to begin with,

07:19 so the fact that people are flipping about it

07:21 is so kind of ironic.

07:23 I really did enjoy it when it first happened.

07:24 I was like, that's really different

07:26 from what I've ever had before.

07:28 And it lasted for about six months.

07:30 Jen's star power lasted way longer,

07:32 winning an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG for the role,

07:35 but the solidarity among the actors was unmatched.

07:38 They negotiated a historic million bucks each per episode

07:42 after threatening to go on strike during the second season.

07:44 There was that weird backlash period

07:47 where they gave us all a hard time,

07:50 and aren't we bratty, little spoiled actors?

07:52 We wanted to be paid the same

07:53 'cause we felt that was fair,

07:55 and putting in the same amount of work,

07:57 and it was kind of something we believed in.

08:00 And when they reunited two years ago,

08:02 they were reportedly paid 2.5 million each.

08:05 We've literally just slipped right back.

08:07 Aw!

08:08 What was it about this experience with these people

08:10 that bonded you like it did?

08:12 All I can say is that there was something

08:15 that was laid down at the very, very beginning

08:19 that we instantly, it was in our DNA that we were family,

08:22 we were going to take care of each other.

08:24 I love you guys so much.

08:26 Friends certainly helped open doors for Jen in Hollywood.

08:29 I guess it just goes to show, being on a good show,

08:31 what it'll do for you.

08:33 Hi there.

08:34 Respect.

08:36 That's easy for you to say, Holden, you are not married.

08:38 While Jen established she could do comedy,

08:40 she wanted to prove she also had range.

08:43 Enter "The Good Girl" with Jake Gyllenhaal.

08:45 You get stuck and known as something,

08:48 it's sort of this bittersweet,

08:50 you know, it's the best job I've ever had,

08:52 and yet, you know, we're actors,

08:54 and we wanna go out and be actors,

08:58 act, play somebody else.

09:01 God, I still honestly think I belong here.

09:05 Really, you know what I mean?

09:06 We need to talk about your flair.

09:08 Really?

09:09 I have 15 pieces on.

09:11 Playing a waitress in an office space was not a big stretch,

09:15 but her role as a pregnant social worker

09:17 alongside Paul Rudd in "The Object of My Affection"

09:20 was a bit trickier.

09:21 E.T. was on set in 1997.

09:23 It's sort of like the way ducks walk.

09:25 Your feet are a little wider apart.

09:26 A little wider apart than you stand,

09:29 and then you'll turn around,

09:30 and your feet are always a little wider.

09:32 It looks like the Miss America pageant out there.

09:35 Thank you.

09:36 From beauty queen to makeout queen,

09:38 that's Jen with Owen Wilson,

09:40 a long-haired Mark Wahlberg,

09:41 and Jim Carrey in her biggest box office hit,

09:44 the $485 million Bruce Almighty.

09:47 You can't take a scene like that too seriously.

09:49 It's hysterical.

09:50 Owen loves you, baby.

09:53 Just three years later, Jen stripped down

09:55 for her then-boyfriend Vince Vaughn in "The Breakup."

09:58 That's me.

09:59 There's no body double.

10:00 No.

10:01 No back double.

10:02 I'm pretty horrifying.

10:03 You know, they did, thankfully,

10:05 from the back shot that they did,

10:06 it was cut right at the, you know.

10:08 I'm good.

10:09 I think you know what I want.

10:11 Jen really pushed the envelope

10:12 as a crazed sex addict in "The Horrible Bosses" franchise.

10:16 Hi, boys.

10:17 Julia, I'm not gonna sleep with you.

10:19 We'll see about that.

10:20 Usually the man's role in a film,

10:22 so that was really fun to kind of just be one of the guys.

10:27 Those guys include Jason Sudeikis

10:30 and her real-life bestie, Jason Bateman.

10:32 She's done five films with each of them.

10:35 Hi!

10:36 She's just got really good timing

10:37 in whatever she does and really funny lady.

10:40 They're so different.

10:41 The biggest difference.

10:42 Shoe size.

10:43 Shoe size, about two inches.

10:46 Four, four, size four feet.

10:47 And a Nike sneaker collection.

10:49 Size four feet.

10:50 Jason Sudeikis.

10:50 That's amazing.

10:51 It's not true.

10:53 And when it comes to Jen's co-stars,

10:54 we can't forget the Sandman.

10:56 There's nothing bad about Anderson.

10:57 Nothing bad about him.

10:58 No, we love each other.

11:00 Jen and Adam Sandler's chemistry was first on display

11:02 in "Just Go With It."

11:03 Back in 2010, E.T. crashed the Hawaii set.

11:06 We've been friends for, I would say, 21 years.

11:10 How did you first meet?

11:11 We, we--

11:12 Jerry's Deli.

11:13 Jerry's Deli.

11:14 We were a bunch of friends.

11:14 Mutual friends.

11:15 We shared meals together.

11:16 I watched Anderson eat.

11:17 What did you eat, pickles?

11:19 I, I don't, I love pickles.

11:21 I love this girl.

11:24 My wife loves this girl.

11:26 The entire world loves this girl.

11:30 Adam and Jen would go on to star in "Murder Mystery"

11:32 and its sequel.

11:33 Jen recently revealed the two share such a strong bond

11:36 that Adam and his wife send her flowers every year

11:39 on Mother's Day because they know of her past struggles

11:42 to get pregnant.

11:43 That sort of gives new meaning to this Q&A back in March

11:46 when the pair stopped by to spill the E.T.

11:48 If you were to leave the industry tomorrow,

11:51 what will we find you doing?

11:52 I wish I was a doctor.

11:54 Huh.

11:55 Wish I could fix things that were,

11:56 if someone was aching that I,

11:58 so I think I'd go after that.

11:59 Well, I feel like we've spilled something.

12:01 Our heart, our soul.

12:03 We gave our heart and soul out to it and--

12:05 We did for E.T. because E.T.'s always been nice to us.

12:07 'Cause E.T.'s been there for us forever and ever and ever.

12:09 Literally.

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