Their Cheatin' Hearts

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Jennifer, since this is your first movie since the end of Friends, do you wish that Rumor Has It, the romantic comedy you shot before Derailed, were coming out before this darker film instead of in December?
ANISTON I really don't care. I'm actually really happy with this coming out first. I prefer this right now.

Are either of you interested in being considered people who can open a movie?
OWEN You'd be a fool not to understand that there's a commerce side to the business, without question. But you have no control over that.
ANISTON I know that it's a good thing to be able to open a movie. But it's a lot of pressure to put on yourself. There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Do you feel any added pressure knowing that this is the first movie that Harvey and Bob Weinstein are releasing under their new Weinstein Company?
ANISTON I couldn't give a...we don't think about that kind of stuff. [To Owen] Is that bad? Should we be thinking about that?

Jennifer, you've spoken pretty plainly about the challenges you've faced personally in the last year. When you're making a film about the complications of human relationships, do you find it useful to mine your own experiences?
ANISTON You mean, like, dip into the well? Of course. Sometimes you have nothing to reference in your own life, but sometimes you do. And if I do, I do.

How about for this movie?
ANISTON [Long pause] Well...sure, a little bit, yeah.

You're back in the public eye for the first time in a long time.
ANISTON In this way, yeah. In a way that I'd like to be!

What kind of preparation did that take?
ANISTON I have to say, there was definitely a little bit of preparation, because I haven't been out there in so long. Not, like, meditation or anything, but just mentally gearing up.

You're about to do dozens of five-minute TV interviews back-to-back. How do you steel yourself for all the personal questions that you're bound to get?
ANISTON I just won't answer them. I just won't do it. I say, ''Sorry. Learned my lesson. Next!''

Does it depress you that because of all the tabloid magazines that are out there now, more people seem to know about The Break Up, the movie you just shot with Vince Vaughn, than this film?
ANISTON Well, that's why we're here.
OWEN I've been shocked by the use of video-camera footage on these crazy cable-TV shows. You got used to people taking pictures, and then suddenly there's, like, three guys standing with video cameras.
ANISTON It's creepier. It's like, what's the supply and what's the demand? I think when it starts to become a danger to people just walking down the street or people in cars or children...unfortunately, something bad will have to happen.

Do you think there's any way people will stop caring about your private business?
ANISTON Stop giving it to them.

I bet I'd get the rest of the year off if I got you to start jumping on this couch and shouting about your personal life.
ANISTON [Smiling, silent]
OWEN Why did you tell her? You were so close!