She’s had her fair share of heartbreak and in one of her most open interviews, Jennifer Aniston has shared the details of her parent’s split and how she channelled the emotion from her divorce with Brad Pitt into her acting.
The 42-year-old, who opened up to James Lipton during an interview on Inside the Actor’s Studio, said that she was devastated as a nine-year-old when her father actor John Aniston, walked out on her mother Nancy Dow.
“It was pretty crappy, I came home from a birthday party and he was moved out,” she said.
It was during this interview, that Aniston also revealed that she used the emotional experience from her divorce to drive her performance in her movie The Break Up.
“It was just a beautiful story about a couple breaking up, and I was slightly familiar on the topic and the issue. I sort of honestly felt like, what a great way to sort of exercise some of that,” she said.
Despite the storyline being all too familiar to her, the currently smitten star who is now dating Justin Theroux, has always maintained an attitude that sees her move on with life.
“‘I enjoyed it. It really enjoyed it,” she said of filming The Break Up.
“You would think otherwise, because even the producers were like, ‘I don’t know if we should ask you to do this,’ but I was like, ‘why not? Turn the page, let’s move on’.”
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