Jennifer Aniston starred in her first film just before Friends, a production she remembers with “embarrassment” (Photo by Ron Davis/Getty Images) (Ron Davis via Getty Images)
“I owe everything to Rachel,” he said. Jennifer Aniston when asked about the characters she is most proud of. And not for nothing. The moody fashion lover she played Friends Not only did he manage to put them on the star map, but he also helped create the connection he still maintains with audiences and open up a new panorama of possibilities. The hit sitcom marked a pivotal point in his career, which began in 1994 and forgot anonymity to embrace fame. However, A few months before he landed the role that would change everything, everything was completely different, as shown a film that he finds “embarrassing” when he remembers it.
I’ll talk to you about it leprechaunalso known as The Elf, this 1993 work that over time became a cult film, mixing horror and comedy with absurdity and gore. In this story Warwick Davis He played the mythical Irish creature that gave the film its name, pursuing a family convinced that their gold treasure had been stolen. Jennifer played the teenage daughter who confronted the goblin, challenged him and tried to destroy him.
We talk very little about the fact that before Friends, Jennifer Aniston was the final girl in the 1993 horror comedy Leprechaun. pic.twitter.com/X3jvHNeCmm
— 🎃 scary Melita 🎃 (@mvmelita) August 4, 2020
The film marked Jennifer Aniston’s big screen debut.But instead of remembering her with nostalgic longing, the actress feels ashamed. So she told it a few years ago while visiting Graham Norton’s British show and revealed how she felt when the film hit the screen as she changed the channel with her then-fiancé Justin Theroux.
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“It was a humbling moment when Justin (Theroux) and I had just started dating,” she recalled (via Independent). “He changed the channel and came across it. “That was our next two hours, to my shame.” However, it wasn’t the only time the actress expressed her disapproval of the first film of her career.
In 2019, he shared more details on The Howard Stern Show (via People), explaining that he couldn’t help but “walk in and out” of the room as he felt repulsed during the film’s airing. “I watched it about eight years ago for fun with our mutual friend Justin Theroux,” he explained. “We were together. It was one of those things where I tried to grab the remote out of his hand but just couldn’t. He said, ‘No, no, no, no, this is happening.’ I kept going in and out and feeling repulsed.”
He admitted and revealed it again in a video for InStyle magazine in 2021 He thought it would ruin his career.. “There are a lot of movies where you think, ‘Oh God, this is…how am I going to survive this in the future?’ And then it becomes a cult because it’s very embarrassing,” he added, then clarified that he was specifically referring to his 1993 horror film.
Jennifer Aniston at the premiere of “Leprechaun” in 1993 (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) (Ron Galella via Getty Images)
Apparently, Jennifer Aniston He won’t be the first or last star to feel rejection for a project from the past. Especially when they go back to the beginnings of cinema. It happened to them Leonardo Dicaprio with animals 3, To Sandra Bullock with Top speed 2Channing Tatum with GI Joe: The Origin of the Cobra, George Clooney with Batman and RobinAnd a long one etc. However, in the case of the star Friends, Added to this is a particular shame as it is a production that was poor and desirable.
Only because leprechaun It managed to defy the passage of time and become a cult film precisely because it is so bad. It’s so bad that it provokes laughter and even embarrassment because it’s an entertainment product that brings comic joy. At least I don’t think so Jennifer Aniston You have to punish yourself so much. After all, he was 24 years old and had been looking for opportunities between theater and television for a long time. At that time leprechaun Coming into his life, he was going through a period of professional disappointment due to projects that didn’t come to fruition. This was the case with Ferris Bueller (a spin-off based on the 1986 film The Fun Expert), Molloy and The Edge, series that were canceled after airing a first season between 1990 and 1993.
Considering she was a young actress looking for a job who, like anyone else in her position, prioritized the desire to be in front of the camera and continue to build her resume, it’s understandable that she took the offer accepted to appear in this role Leprechaun. Furthermore, she herself admitted to Howard Stern that she thought she had made it to the top when she filmed this production. “It was with Warwick Davis, the man from Willow. “It was something important!” he said.
🎞 Rachel arguing with Ross? No way. Jennifer Aniston’s battle against the cursed elf in Leprechaun was serious business. Well, it was quiet here until then 👇 pic.twitter.com/rRcoykWNU7
— Elías Leonardo Salazar (@DonEliasSalazar) April 7, 2023
leprechaun In the end, against all odds, it was a success. Because despite the poor reviews, audiences came to theaters in 1993 to give the film a chance, and it grossed $8.6 million in the United States. That doesn’t seem like much when you consider the usual numbers for Hollywood hits, but in this case the film had only cost a million to produce and generated more than enough profit to expand a saga with seven sequels. Clearly without Jennifer Aniston.
Anyway, Jennifer Aniston You can say that luck was on his side. Due to the sadness and disappointment he felt over the canceled projects and the impact of such a bad film on his career, he decided to approach the head of NBC Entertainment when he saw him one day at a gas station. Warren Littlefield recalled to HuffPost that he encouraged her to keep trying and sent her the “Friends” script a few months later. Her audition was for the role of Monica, but when Courteney Cox proved she was right, Jennifer was offered the role of Rachel.
And the rest is history. Friends changed her life and her bank account, crowning her with one of the sitcom’s favorite characters, the Emmy Award, the Golden Globe and a platform for success that helped her skyrocket in Hollywood. Consequently, since 1994, he hasn’t had to worry about making films that would later embarrass him. The success of Friends gave him the privilege of choosing without economic or professional pressure and experienced the following decades with blockbusters such as Almighty, My Girlfriend Polly, A Fake Wife, I Want to Kill My Boss or Who *&$%! Are they the Millers?
This article was written exclusively for Yahoo en Español by Cine54.
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