Wanderlust star Jennifer Aniston talks about being in her 40s and more

Chats with GQ for new movie

2/14/2012

I Love You, Wo-man: Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, co-stars in the upcoming Wanderlust, are America’s most famous new fake couple. Paulifer (or perhaps Anirudd?) have known each other longer than we’ve known them, and their chemistry is evident from the moment GQ’s Brett Martin sat down with them to reflect on their history.

The March issue of GQ will be on newsstands nationwide on February 21. Links to the full GQ article, as well as slideshow and video, are below.

Some hot button points:

Jennifer Aniston on pregnancy rumors... “I’m not having triplets. Not having twins. Nor am I having one baby. [lifts up sweater and gestures to belly; it appears flat] I did not elope... You heard it here. I’m not knocked up now.”

Jennifer Aniston & Paul Rudd on whether—being they’re such longtime friends—it’s weird to kiss on-screen... Jennifer: “Nah. I’ve kissed him for years.” Paul: “We’ve made out for decades.”

Their new film, Wanderlust, is about a marriage at a turning point. Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd on whether any of the issues in the film resonated with them... Paul: “I think most marriages, mine included, you’re constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.”

Jennifer: “It’s a growing, literally living thing. There’s going to be growing pains, there’s going to be awkward moments—your lanky phase, your pimpled phase. I think that’s the beauty of a relationship. But if the road starts to…” Paul: “…diverge…” Jennifer: “…and one person is growing this way and the other is growing that way… Sometimes that can happen and you can stay together, and sometimes you can’t.”

Jennifer Aniston & Paul Rudd on their own Wanderlust-like hippie experiences... Jennifer: “In Laurel Canyon, we were very familiar with hippies. I mean, I bathed. But I also wouldn’t call myself a Beverly Hills person in any way. I was a more earthy girl for sure.”

Paul: “In my freshman year of college, I started growing my hair long. I thought, It’ll be kind of cool to be crunchy. But that was pretty short-lived. And that kind of morphed into wearing thrift-store clothes—the next step of hippiedom. I got very poetic about it: ‘Clothes should be transitory, man. We should pass them on to others.…’ Then somebody older than me said, ‘Oh God, I would never go in a thrift store. I don’t want to wear pants that somebody else has farted in.’ It was like a thunderbolt. I thought, You know what? I don’t want to, either! And that was it.”

Jennifer Aniston on recently turning 40.... “Forty’s great! Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.”

For the full GQ article visit: http://www.gq.com/entertainment