Jennifer Aniston on We’re The MillersPosted by Wilson Morales
August 8, 2013
Coming out this week is the comedy film, ‘We’re The Miller,’ starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Will Poulter, and Ed Helms.
The film centers on a single, small-time pot dealer (Jason Sudeikis) who ends up in debt to his supplier (Ed Helms). In order to bring the next shipment of drugs up from Mexico, he puts together a fake family comprised of his stripper neighbor (Jennifer Aniston), an eager teen (Will Poulter) and a streetwise punk (Emma Roberts). The supporting cast also includes the hilarious Nick Offerman and Kathryn Hahn.
During the recent press conference for We’re The Millers, Aniston, who’s no stranger to doing comedy, having done Wanderlust, Horrible Bosses in the last few years, talked about playing a stripper and always being in great shape for most of her roles.
What was the process of getting into the head and body of a stripper? Also she was a pretty angry stripper do you think she suffers from something many refer to as stripper rage?
Jennifer Aniston: She’s an angry stripper? I think she’s a sad stripper who sort of has built up this tough exterior from being disappointed many times throughout her life and making just some bad choices…bad men choices, decisions, and I thought of her as maybe a classically trained dancer at one point who didn’t quite make it, obviously. But the rage, I don’t know, I think rage is sadness turned outward. What is it?
How did you get into the body of the stripper?
JA: Well I worked with this amazing choreographer and started learning some pretty crazy moves and it kind of just became easy. It was really fun actually. It was really fun. So I have a stripper pole in my house now.
How does you stay in shape?
JA: No secrets and it’s not a few tips. I don’t think you have time for that answer. It was an amazing choreographer and wonderful trainer and a beautiful cinematographer. All that good stuff. And I worked out a lot. No food. There were a lot of salads. Celery sticks. Cucumbers. Ice chips. They did let me eat ice chips. Water was good. You could eat normally. But no carbs.
What was the most challenging scene for you and how did you get over the challenges?
JA: For me I would have to say it was the scene at the auto body shop. The location, you know that really hot place where the rainstorm happened. That was crazy, day one.
How did you get past that?
JA: I just had to do it. We rolled the cameras and I had to just bite the bullet. It was a little uncomfortable at first, because doing all the rehearsals alone with Denise (the choreographer) and then all of the sudden you’re on the set with three cameras and a bunch of crew. It was a little intimidating at first.
Clip – You Can’t Rent Me
