Joan Rivers’ bizarre contempt for Jennifer Aniston: “I’m so bored of her”
Just like her beloved Friends character Rachel Green, Jennifer Aniston is one of those actors and celebrities that people seem to love without ever really sitting down to think about why.
Always warm and welcoming in interviews, she tends to play mostly lovable characters and her split with Brad Pitt due to his infidelity with Angelina Jolie only seemed to earn her more sympathy and brownie points. Largely down to her role in the 1990s mega-hit, Aniston has always felt liek a friend to her fans.
But, apparently, not everyone is as enamoured with Jen as we’ve come to believe. Although when the criticism is coming from someone as dagger-tongued as Joan Rivers, you’ve always got to take it with a pinch of salt.
“I would like to take Jennifer Aniston and put her hair over her fucking face,” she revealed to daughter Melissa Rivers, “I’m so bored with her and her stupid movies. They’re all the same! I don’t know how they get financed!”
Now, no one’s claiming that Aniston is some sort of artiste or serious thespian. After all, since Friends she has continued to mostly work in lighthearted comedies and rom-coms. And yes, quite a few of her roles might be quite similar, think the loving girlfriends of Marley & Me and Bruce Almighty.
But that doesn’t mean she deserves to be personally taken down and have her hair shoved in her own face by Joan Rivers. It seems as if Rivers is one of the only people to openly and proudly criticise Jen for basically nothing, with little constructive feedback to give her.
The criticism also came at a time in Aniston’s career when she was actually branching out a little. She had just played the sexually inappropriate dentist and boss in Horrible Bosses, even donning a dark brown wig to try and change things up from her usual blonde, girl-next-door vibe roles.
Since then, she’s also branched out even further, doing less and less of those soppy romantic comedies that everyone has come to associate her with. If only she’d lived to see her play the neglectful, looks-obsessed pageant mom of Dumplin or as a top news anchor in the ongoing The Morning Show.
Perhaps she’d have something different to say, although being Joan Rivers, that’s highly doubtful. Aniston is lined up to give us another glimpse of her range in the upcoming Apple TV adaptation of Jennette McCurdy’s best-selling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died.
Aniston is someone who has been continually typecast since her days as Rachel Green, but has somehow managed to stay in work and is seemingly trying to step out of her comfort zone and into something a little more serious as she’s matured.
She’s also got a reputation for being one of Hollywood’s sweethearts. So Rivers’ criticisms seem especially offhand. However, Aniston has had her fair share of ridicule over the years, seemingly for being a conventionally attractive woman who’s managed to stay in business and dared to not have children, even if this wasn’t an active decision.
