USA: Jennifer Aniston and Catherine Keener attend premiere in Los Angeles of their latest film "Friends With Money"

Record ID: 810526

  • Title: USA: Jennifer Aniston and Catherine Keener attend premiere in Los Angeles of their latest film "Friends With Money"
  • Date: 30th March 2006
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MARCH27, 2006) (REUTERS) SOUNDBITE (English) JENNIFER ANISTON SAYING: "I think if you're comfortable with it, I don't know how other people feel with it but I feel pretty comfortable with it. I don't consider myself someone now with money I feel like I'm the same person I know that I have it but it doesn't define who I am."
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  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: Jennifer Aniston braved a rainy night in Los Angeles to join her co-stars at the premiere of her new movie "Friends With Money." Aniston plays Olivia, a single woman in her late 30's who cleans houses to make a living after quitting a teaching job. Her older married friends, who all have more money then her, feel compelled to try and help her find a new career and a stable relationship.
    At the premiere, Aniston said the script won her over immediately. "It's wonderfully written, beautifully, beautifully written and I love her movies and I love these women and I had to do it," she said.
    The film is written and directed by Nicole Holofcener and has four female leads. But Catherine Keener, who was recently nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in "Capote", said the female-heavy nature of the production made no difference to the experience of making the movie.
    "I think an actor's an actor and a director is a director if they're good great and if they're not it's like it can fall apart both ways," Keener says.
    Bob Stephenson plays one of Olivia's potential boyfriends but the actor says even though he was required to get into bed with one of the world's most desirable leading ladies, he was glad they didn't kiss.
    "I was glad there wasn't because I was really nervous about the whole thing but then I was kind of thinking, like when you see the movie, I was thinking it was sweeter that there wasn't any," Stephenson said.
    Aniston plays the poorest of the four friends in "Friends With Money" but off-screen that role is reversed as the actress is worth many millions of dollars. However she says that being rich doesn't create problems in her private life.
    "I think if you're comfortable with it, I don't know how other people feel with it but I feel pretty comfortable with it. I don't consider myself a someone now with money I feel like I'm the same person. I know I have it but it doesn't define who I am," Aniston says.
    Catherine Keener says the issue of money among people in the movie business is very different to how it is experienced in the real world.
    "In our business you know 'poor' has a totally different meaning. It's not like 'really poor' you know, it's sort of like 'I'm driving just a regular car' kind of poor but you have one," Keener says.
    "Friends With Money" was written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. It's her third feature after "Walking and Talking" and "Lovely and Amazing." Holofcener says she was fascinated with the subject of money and how it affects people.
    "You can't just assume that everybody is in the same situation. And with children we all have ideas about how money should be spent on them and it's not like there's an ugly thing in my life and between my friends it's just I thought it was a fun thing to write about," Holofcener says.
    Playing a cleaner was not difficult for Aniston who scoffed at the notion that she may have needed on set training to learn how to do it. "Are you kidding? My God! That's how I made my allowance as a kid. I had to clean the whole house twice a week," Aniston laughed.
    Aniston's co-star and real life close friend Catherine Keener confirmed her cleaning abilities and other personal attributes.
    "You know she's a good cleaner! She is, I'm telling you! She is, she's lovely she's very much of a care-giver you know kind of person," Keener says.
    Aniston's private life has been constant tabloid fodder since her divorce from Brad Pitt and she stressed how important her friends are in her life and how much she relies on them. "I have the best friends in the world. I'm very lucky and we all are very capable of talking about anything," she says.
    "Friends With Money" opens in North America in April.
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