Aniston & Vaughn's First Photo Shoot
Here's a sneak peek at the June 2, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn on the 'All About Their Break-Up' cover -- their first photo shoot together. This issue hits newsstands tomorrow. More pictures in the gallery of Aniston leaving her hotel this morning!UPDATE :: Added all of the scans to the gallery! Entire article transcribed after the jump. Enjoy!
The thigh-baring Jennifer Aniston shows she has one leg up on the
towering Vince Vaughn in EW's black and white four-page
pictorial. The cover couple posed while playing Whitney
Houston in the background. Vince sang away
to "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."
Jennifer Aniston & Vince Vaughn
Entertainment Weekly -- June 2, 2006
You've read all about them in the tabloids and matched Lord-knows-how-many reports about their romance on TV. But here's one fact about Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston that you probably haven't heard a lot: They make one hell of an odd couple.That was evident earlier this month, when the actors took separate breaks at separate ends of Los Angeles to discuss the romantic comedy on which they met a year ago.
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, Aniston breezes into her luxurious office in Beverly Hills and snags a bottle of water that her assistant has set out on the counter. The bright room contains stylish furnishings and expensive works of art. A natural sisal area rug emits the faintest smell of hay. Aniston is tan and looks uncommonly healthy, and she wears a casual vest that exposes her trim arms. She smiles and perches herself attentively on the edge of a white sofa, ready to answer queries about her life and career, which she does with succinct words and refreshing frankness.
Twenty-four hours later, Vaughn appears in the doorway of his dim workplace in the San Fernando Valley. A bare desk crowds one corner, a TV sits askew from the wall, and a Wedding Crashers poster rests on the floor. The room smells like stale tobacco. Wearing a Notre Dame T-shirt, his hair mussed, he sinks his imposing 6-foot-5 frame deep into a brown rec-room couch, taps on a pack of cigarettes, and fires up a smoke. He's never enjoyed sharing details of his personal life, he notes in his rapid, punctuation-averse cadence, but he offers to try: "Feel free to ask me anything."
Hey, man. don't worry, we will.
As ironic titles go, The Break Up is a doozy. It's a story about a man and woman who fall out the most publicized divorces in history. Aniston's split from her husband of five years, Brad Pitt, and anybody seemed to he talking about when The Break-Up began shooting last summer. Paparazzi followed Aniston's every move. But when it grew clear that she and Vaughn were becoming more than mere colleagues, the media turned up the heat full blast. To this day, the actors are trying to keep their relationship quiet. But their unmitigated failure to do so has made The Break-Up one of the most buzzed-about films of the summer.
And yet, even without all the artistic imitations of life, The Break-Up--about a Chicago odd couple who split but refuse to leave the condominium they jointly own-would have been news: Opening June 2, it's one of Hollywood's few hopes for a breakout romantic comedy this summer, and it features two big stars with a lot to prove.
Aniston, 37, is two years removed from her jackpot-striking 10-year run on Friends, and despite the box office success of Bruce Almighty three years ago, her film career has yet to soar. Derailed. Rumor Has It, and Friends With Money all failed to announce her arrival as a movie star, and The Break-Up (for which she's earning $7 million-what she once made in just seven episodes on TV) will go a long way in helping Hollywood determine whether she can be
counted on to draw the legions that she once commanded on the tube. "I'm not sitting there trying to figure out ways to get people to go in and see movies," she says. "The last couple I've done have not been successful, but I didn't do them thinking they would be a success or not. You never know."
Vaughn, 36, has bounced around Hollywood since the early 1990s, weathering years of rejection and failed movies like Psycho and Domestic Disturbance. Not until the smash success of Wedding Crahers last summer did he fulfill the promise of his memorable turn in Swingers a decade earlier. During the past year, he's become one of Hollywood's most in-demand talents: He's now commanding $20 million to play Santa's brother in 2007's Joe Claus, and he has the clout to assemble projects like his live road production Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show. The Break-Up--which he conceived with first-time screenwriters Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender three years ago, sold to Universal with the guarantee of a hefty $50 million production budget, and made in his native Chicago-could solidify both his audience appeal and his industry power. "This marks a big moment in his career," says Jon Favreau, Vaughn's longtime collaborator and pal, whom he met on 1993's Rudy and who appears in The Break-Up as his best friend. "This is a movie that he put together on his own. He produced it. He came up with the story and hired everybody. He really made something happen."
Vaughn and Aniston had never met-and Vaughn won't cop to any long-distance crush-but the actress was always key to his vision for The Break-Up. "I had her in mind when I was writing, because I wanted someone who was good with comedy but also a good actor," he says, referring to her ability to modulate between moments happy and sad, of which there are plenty in the film. "There was no second choice." So after hiring director Peyton Reed, whose spirit he admired in Bring It On and Down With Love, Vaughn set about piquing her interest. The filmmakers swear that Aniston's real-life woes had nothing to do with their decision to approach her. "It wasn't like anybody was saying 'Who's an actress who's going through a really painful public breakup that we could cast in this movie?'" Reed recalls with a chuckle. Still, getting her attention wasn't easy.
ANISTON Everybody was so nervous to come to me with a movie called The Break-Up, thinking, Well, she'll never do that! I went, "You've gotta be kidding.
Really?" Of course, with me, I didn't think, How dare they? I actually thought, That sounds really funny.
EW How did you come to the resolution where you said to yourself, "Okay, I can do this"?
ANISTON I didn't know I could. I didn't want to take advantage of [my divorce]. But then I thought. Well, there's a reason this movie came to me at this time.
EW Would you say doing this movie was cathartic?
ANISTON It was. It's not always you have the opportunity to go through a breakup and then shoot a movie called The Break-Up. I just find it luck, truthfully. Good luck. Because you're able to exercise something quicker. I had a little hit of a well to dip into.
The Break-Up went before cameras in Chicago last June. The shoot was pretty quick (46 days) and apparently pretty happy. During her spare time, Aniston explored the city's architecture and savored a sloppy late-night hot dog at the legendary haunt the Wieners Circle, while Vaughn hit some jazz clubs, quit smoking, and packed on 25 pounds. But with the June 10 premiere of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (which, by pure coincidence, featured Vaughn in a supporting role) and revelations that Pitt and Jolie had become a couple, the focus on Aniston and her new flame intensified; in the salacious ongoing tabloid narrative that ensued, The Break-Up emerged as a sort of bizarro twin of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Over the years, Aniston has grown accustomed to the tabloids trailing her every move-"You've gotta have goals," she deadpans. "You've gotta have something to do, so you may as well stalk people"—and claims that her experience in Chicago was par for the course. "In terms of Jen's attitude at work," Reed says, "I would not have known it was going on because she has this extraordinary ability to shake it off."
The firestorm was something new for Vaughn, however; until then he had succeeded in keeping a lid on his private life. (Even now, all we know for absolute sure is that he once dated Joey Lauren Adams, his costar from 1998's A Cool, Dry Place, who appears in The Break-Up as Aniston's best friend.) Perhaps that's why he took up smoking again at the end of the shoot-and consequently lost the 25 pounds he'd gained during production. Still, he hopes people just want to see him and Aniston happy. "You can't really be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor, I'm being followed by the paparazzi and it's horrible. I just think that there's a bounty for a picture, and if that gets higher they're prepared to do more and more," he says, philosophically. "In the scheme of life, it's ridiculous."
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are dating. There. Can't we just go and say what everyone already knows? Because darned if they will, even if their behavior—-be it in reports of them looking at property together in suburban Chicago or merely in the way they speak about each other—-indicates the contrary. Reed refers to the relationship as "whatever may or may not be going on." Aniston is even more cryptic, calling it "the stuff that's happening."
As for Vaughn, remember when he invited us to ask him anything?
EW Are you and Jennifer dating?
VAUGHN You know, here's my answer to that stuff. I'm not a person who discusses all the ins and outs of what's going on with me ad nauseam, because I feel like it betrays something that's mine, that's special to me. It's private, it's my stuff. Ultimately, if people know or don't know it won't change their lives. And it's not out of not being happy about something or proud or excited, it's just not what I do. I've [never discussed] girls I was dating. I felt that that's a good way to hurt a relationship.
EW Do you get tired of the questions?
VAUGHN I truly don't. I've obviously dealt with this a lot recently and I don't tire of it because I would do the same. It's something that people are curious about and I totally understand it. I just always have chosen to keep my private stuff to myself.
EW How do you respond to the suspicion that you and she actually are not an item but that you just let all the buzz continue in order to generate interest in the movie?
VAUGHN [smiles] That's not my style with stuff.
Still, nobody can deny that the buzz around their relationship is integral to the movie's success. "Just about everyone knows this movie is coming." says Universal Pictures marketing president Adam Fogelson, who adds that such awareness makes filling seats much easier. "All the attention that Vince and Jen have gotten over the last many months is substantially responsible."
From Eyes Wide Shut to Bounce, Vanilla Sky to Sahara, movies with romantically linked leading couples litter the recent cinematic landscape--and their box office results arc as erratic as most of the relationships themselves. Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan's real-life tryst seemed to turn viewers off from Proof of Life. But Mr. & Mrs. Smith became a $186 million hit largely because ticket buyers were eager to revel in the delicious spectacle of Pitt and Jolie trying to kill each other right when news of their affair was exploding. Will that scenario prove a harbinger of The Break-Up's success? It's possible. No matter what, though, these "office romances" surely put increased strain on both the stars and their relationships.
A Small Statue of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddhist goddess of compassion, sits high on a shelf, presiding over Aniston's office. It's easy to guess why Aniston might find that statue reassuring just now. She has a major movie opening that could mark a turning point in her career. She's coming off a tough divorce. She's almost a year into a relationship that's under major scrutiny. And the fact that people will be watching The Break-Up to get a sense of her chemistry with Vaughn disappoints her. "I didn't shoot this movie so that people would go see it because it reflects what's happening in my private life," she says. "I'd like to be given a little bit more credit. I know that that's been said, but I don't give a s— what people think. I do parts based on what speaks to me and what I feel I could do a good job at. This just happens to be that."
Aniston has largely been painted as the victim in her divorce. But her decision to play a spurned and sometimes vengeful lover in The Break-Up, she makes clear more than once, was not retaliation. She doesn't have much to say when the conversation drifts to her split with Pitt--"There's nothing that's new information" -- but, understandably, it's still very much on her mind. During the course of our interview, she returns to the subject regularly, always in vague and general terms like "past stuff" and "all of this." She utters the name "Brad" once, but only in passing.
As the conversation winds down, Aniston gets up to fetch ice from the freezer. She returns to her seat, pops open a diet root beer, and addresses her future while watching her soda fizz over ice.
With no new projects lined up right now, she's looking to take a break. She says she used to love the LA sunshine, but life here under the shadows of zoom lenses has grown dreary. She smiles and speaks with striking optimism about fleeing the city and the "stalk-erazzi" soon--maybe to Chicago, where Vaughn lives in his spare time, maybe somewhere else. Just... out. "This can't be the only place to live," she says. "There's so much dark, it's nice to have some light."
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Ladybug: For the last 5 yrs Angelina and her son were doing great, so her "issues" are your delusions. Angelina hasn't committed any crimes, instead she travels the world doing charity work and raising her son. The insecure headcase is Jennifer she is the one posing on EVERY effin magazine sometimes in panties or topless, repeatly saying IAM OKAY. She has no style and looks like a transexual. She repeatly alludes to her ex-husband, even though she claims to be over him. While Brad and Angelina are trying to seeking privacy, Chinnifer is seeking ALL the attention she can get for her flopping movie career. She is very weak, she needs her stupid friends to defend or speak up for her. Her and Vince look like a little girl and her bodyguard in this cover shoot. Chinnifer needs Dr.Phil
#175 Cold Hard Math,not that long and according to him he has not had a girlfriend since.That is the one thing that bothers me about the gay talk.Before X we never even saw this man out with any women.
Wow, when you compared the color pictures with the black and
white ones, one thing comes in minds: "It's amazing what
photoshop can do!"
One thing photoshop cannot do, is to show chemistry when there
is none!!!
Very nice pictures though. Kind of remind me of a certain W
photoshoot...
# 64 | Lena
Gee, you mean the dirty sticking out shirt chest animal like hair attracts you too? Ha, you are something, aren't you?
You haven't seen him with women because he's GAY. He was with Joey Adams like 7years ago and for not that long. She was more of a drinking buddie then anything else. Like Vaughn she's been arrested for DUI.
He's gay/bi whatever you want to call it but Vince Vaughn is no red blooded American male with 100% let me get in your pants or feel your boob heterosexual behavior.
Stick a fork in it, it's done. Friends with Money is Officially over. Here's what they had to say about JenJen's performance...
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Friends With Money
An exasperatingly awful performance from Jennifer Aniston puts the tin lid on this humourless and self-pitying ensemble comedy, which has a cop-out ending of such spectacular and fundamental dishonesty that I felt like flinging my nachos at the screen. It comes from writer-director Nicole Holofcener, who was responsible for Walking and Talking and Lovely and Amazing, and has gained a reputation for writing witty, mature roles for witty, mature women.
Maybe that is what she thinks she's doing, and what her admirers think she is doing. I think Holofcener sits down to create talky, metropolitan comedies with a dark edge, but something different always pours out of her laptop, and from the mouths of the actresses she directs: a strange squeak of complaint, anger and depression, overlaid with prosperous middle-aged smugness and conceit. You've heard of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - these women are the Nah-Nah Sisterhood, perpetually creating a not-that-funny buzz of discontent and inviting us to apply the balm of sympathetic laughter. It's difficult to judge how much of this is deliberate.
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Jennifer Aniston, though. Once one of the brightest, funniest stars of the small screen, she is here only slightly more animated than a haddock on a slab. Her face is like a wet weekend. And the rain pours thinly down all the time she is on screen. She plays Olivia, a former teacher at a chi-chi private school, who couldn't take the humiliation of being so much poorer than the obnoxious kids she taught. So she quit and took a job as a maid as a stopgap, got into a bad relationship with a personal trainer (Scott Caan) - and is dismayed to discover that a maid is what she has become and, somewhere along the line, her life has taken a very wrong turning.
Poor Olivia is a source of worry and embarrassment to her circle of female friends, who are all rich - or at least very nicely off - thanks to their own entrepreneurial talents and their marriages to rich men. But they, too, are worried that their lives have taken a wrong turn. They've got cash - but most of their marriages are a disappointment.
Oh poor Jen. When is she gonna get it that she isn't a movie star? Why is she poisoning everyone who comes in contact with her?
It's funny -- the EW article is almost slyly implying that Vaughn is gay -- must be an open secret in Hollywood...which is even more of a reason what Aniston is pathetic...what good are your 'best gays' like Chris McMillan if they can't even clue a dumb bitch in.
Maybe she just photographs badly. Sometimes in magazines she looks a bit masculine in the face but when I see her on tv, like on Letterman, or Larry king, she looks quite lovely. And no one in hollywood has better hair. I would kill for her hair. Pretty eyes too. I was sad when she and brad broke up. But, it obviously was for the best.. Hoping the movie does well in spite of the reviews.. you never know .. reviews were unkind to the da vinci code..
i just love reading BAMZ fans...you make my indigestion disappear :-)
anyway, i believe Aniston doesn't need Dr. Phil to cure her half-sentence incantations. she needs to read a Maya Angelou to soak some real attitude about getting over tough times.
The only reason Vince Vaughn fucked Jennifer from back was to make sure her shutup crying loud out Brad's name. And to get all the free publicity she could bring in for the TBU.
Though it will be too embarrissing for her if VV dumps her ass soon after the movie. Her swear to drag him through the same media mud just like what she did to Brad could only stop him from doing that.
JA is boring but the girl has style!!
The only reason Vince Vaughn fu**ed Jennifer from back was to make sure her shutup crying loud out Brad's name. And to get all the free publicity she could bring in for the TBU.
Though it will be too embarrissing for her if VV dumps her ass soon after the movie. Her swear to drag him through the same media mud just like what she did to Brad could only stop him from doing that.
JA is boring but the girl has style!!
TMOTO
Are you nuts? What's the matter with you. Nasty, vulger language is not welcomed here. Take your nasty self away. Idiot.
So the bitching and snide remarks continue.You must be so proud!!!
Dearest Emi, you need not KILL for Maniston's hair -- just do what she did to get it to fall in a perfect frame around her fug face...electrolycize your hairline back abou 3 inches, so your hair isn't sprouting only a quarter inch away from your eyebrows. You know how Sade and Tyra Banks have high foreheads, well Aniston had NO forehead and shaved her hair back to some semblance of normalcy. Consequently, unlike most people she has no NATURAL hairline (which for most, is a bit thinner and finer with baby tendrils - think Julia Roberts)...HER hair, instead -- is essentially starting from a much thicker spot 2-3 inches back. Her old roommate recently busted her and told of ALL her tricks...her hairline plastic surgery, her nose job, the chicken cutlets in the bra, icing her nipples, and giving herself bikini waxes while lying upside down on their couch in the living room naked.
Eeeeeeeeeeew.
Soooooo classy.
God Brad, you deserve a medal baby. Hope Angelina has driven all the bad memories away hon'. Congrats to the fam.
Hey, VV seems to want a beard and JA seems perfectly happy to
be his beard. She won't have to worry that he's cheating on her
with another woman. She probably stares in her hand mirror al
day: "Am I pretty, Vinnie? I'm pretty, aren't I Vinnie? Tell me
I'm pretty."
TwatwaxerAniston---LOL! Brad was no doubt drunk when he proposed and then was stuck with this piece of work. No wonder they didn't have kids--he probably couldn't get it up after seeing THAT, and who could blame him? Now he and Angie have hot monkey sex and a pregnancy, and Brad can forget the horrors of being married to a manly woman.
#97 On the contrary, NOW i see chemistry in them and a glow in their faces that wasn't there before. I think he standed forher as a friend and they ended madly in love.
Nobody can't deny the sparkle in her eyes that makes her even more beautiful
I heard Vince Vaughn is gay too. Aniston is VV's beard so I think it might actually last. So long as VV keeps up appearances and continues to ...praise Aniston
oh wow, this is one of the creepiest threads i've ever read on here. i think we have some potential aniston and brangelina stalkers going on here. some of you people are obviously obsessed and totally creeeeepyyyy.
Nice hair and a good tan? That's the praise you have for her? If that's the only thing people can praise you for is your hair and tan, then you haven't done anything worthwhile in your life.
You think Huvane is gay, too? She does have an affinity for gays. Look at Vince. And let's not forget her best bud aka hairdresser Chris McMillan. She makes a good beard.
*Disclaimer: Nothing wrong with being gay. be honest.
Love the cover shot. I wish them well.
WOW Vince and Jen look FANTASTIC!
What great pictures! Thanks JJ!!! Vince looks the best I've ever seen him! What a lean mean looking machine! Jen looks beautiful!
Stephen Huvane is gay. It's a charade people
Jenjen has another flop on her hands. What's new?
I guess all those pity parties and walking around naked like a slut and posing like a whore in the magz couldn't help poor wittle ms. chinny chin chin out. Awwww ...so sad.
Vince is gay.
Is Stephen Huvane also gay? Geez they make a nice little family there. VV might secretly be getting with the hair dresser or the publicist.
I think Jen and Vince are made for each other. They look nice as a couple. Brad was too much pretty boy for Jen ... not in the same league, that is why Jen felt so inferior. But with Vince they are just a nearly perfect match.
To My Fellow BAMZ Fans
I have an observation to make that will probably make me
sound superior, self-rightieous and not liked very much by
those of you who I consider my friends, but, so be it. I feel it
needs to be said. Half of the posters here I recognize as being
B&A fans. Some of you have come here with an open mind,
some have not. Having a difference of opinion and stating it
intelligently is to my mind different from deliberately goading
and insulting geniune fans of Jen. The jeering, the insults, the
overall meanness does not become you. Yes, you say, but
doesn’t Jen fans do the same exact thing to us that we are
doing to them? That may be true, but who’s to says you have
to act the same way? Combating HATE with HATE only creates
more.....You got it. So why can’t you get it?
You’re are really not doing Brad and Angelina any favors by
spreading bad karma on their behalf. They will not Thank You
for it. They have made it a habit to never judge of other
people, even Jennifer. Worst still the media will never let these
three individuals alone to live their own lives when they think
they can exploit them and make even more money off of them
because their fans will continue to support their efforts. Their
efforts include telling lies, lies and lies.
JA fans, my message for you is the same exact one for my
fellow BAMZ fans. No one is excluded in this message. Not
even myself.
could that woman be anymore boring? no wonder brad pitt dumped her ass. while she talks about hair crisis (i.e. wearing hair extentions, boohoo) and wearing shorts for the summer (see gma interview), she could do so much better with her time and money.
she's played the victim part really well, but please.
The Break-Up
By Michael Rechtshaffen
Bottom line: Don't believe the hype.
Given Vince Vaughn's recent success with landing punch lines, there was considerable hope that if anybody could inject a little zip into the stagnating romcom, he'd be the guy to pull it off.
And he still might -- one of these days.
In the meantime, there's "The Break-Up," a major disappointment of an anti-romantic comedy for which Vaughn shares producer and story credits in addition to sharing the screen with real-life squeeze Jennifer Aniston.
After a promisingly quirky start, "Break-Up" suffers a major breakdown from which it never recovers.
Audiences expecting a good time will instead be rewarded with wildly unsympathetic lead characters and uncomfortably long stretches without a laugh in sight. While they might initially be drawn in by the marketing department's promise of something a lot more entertaining, the end boxoffice result will likely be less than amicable.
Initially meeting at a baseball game, Chicago tour guide Gary Grobowski (Vaughn) manages to persuade art gallery employee Brooke Meyers (Aniston) to dump her male friend and go out with him basically by buying her a hot dog.
Flash forward to the couple living in what isn't exactly domestic bliss, with Brooke running around getting ready to host a dinner party for their families while Gary contentedly parks himself in front of the television.
With the cracks in their relationship finally reaching the breaking point, Brooke finally calls Gary for the jerk he is, but in her little schemes to make him realize the errors of his ways, Brooke only ends up matching him in the bad behavior department.
But what could have at best played out like a wilted "War of the Roses" ends up looking a lot more like Rob Reiner's misbegotten "The Story of Us."
It would have helped if director Peyton Reed ("Bring It On," "Down With Love") had been as concerned with giving his audience characters worth investing in as he was with all those stylish visual compositions, but the script, by first-time feature writers Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender, constantly leaves its actors in the lurch.