She may not have starred in a Bollywood film like Sylvester Stallone or Denise Richards, or even shot for a Hollywood production in India like Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie, but Jennifer Aniston still has several fans in the country. However, her latest release, Just Go With It, still has an India connect since it has been described online as a remake of the Salman Khan-starrer, Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya. Something that's dismissed with a shrug by the movie’s director, Dennis Dugan, since MPKK and JGWI are actually remakes of The Cactus, which is based on a play.
So there’s little risk, yet, of a Jennifer-starrer being branded a remake of a Sush-starrer. But there’s still an India question that makes sense. Run a Google search and you find that this is not the first time you are looking at ‘Jennifer Aniston in Indian remake’ goss. As far back as 2008, there were stories of Jen having expressed her willingness to play the character of Waheeda Rehman in a remake of Khamoshi (no, not the Bhansali one) being made by an LA-based restaurateur, Sanjay Patel, whose restaurant Jennifer apparently frequented, and supposedly had tears when she read the script there one day. Jen looks flummoxed and asks, “Who? I’m sorry. Who?” Sanjay Patel, one spells out. A gentleman who told the media you were acting in a remake of this old Indian movie, and we’ve been waiting to hear more of it ever since, in vain. A few seconds’ pause and Jen sums up her response in one word — “Really?” — followed by she and director Dennis bursting into laughter. “That’s great… where will we shoot it? In a restaurant?” she asks, while still laughing.
Responding to questions about speculations in the press about her boyfriends and her wanting children, Jen lets her guard down and gives a candid response to how she deals with the constant speculation: “Well, you stay as far away from it as possible and try to deal with the e-mails and phone calls from your mother, saying, ‘Are you adopting?’ ‘No, Mom.’ ‘Are you dating somebody?’ ‘No, Mom.’ ‘Well, Aunt Jean thinks…’ ‘No.’ ‘Are you getting married at Oprah’s?’ ‘A $8 million wedding?’ ‘I told you. Don’t believe it.’ So the only way I’m privy to it is when I have to, sort of, field questions from my family members, ’coz, for some reason, they still believe it’s true. How does it affect my work? If I don’t know it’s out there, I’m just living my life.”
Jen’s personal life and philosophy are quite the global media’s pet project, but when faced with a question like “Do you believe in love forever?”, she responds by looking all around before turning back and counterquestioning with the straightest face, “Do I believe in love forever? Who are you talking to?” leaving everyone laughing uproariously.
There’s been talk of the hot bods showdown when 41-year-old Jen has a bikini scene along with Brooklyn Decker, who, apart from being 23, has also been a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover girl four times over. When asked if she had to change her workout and diet to prepare for the bikini scenes opposite Brooklyn, Jen said, “I didn’t change anything, actually. I have a regular workout routine that I maintained. We also had a great yoga class. If you get 20 minutes of a good run, then that’s great, and if you can get an hour in, that’s better. And a good night’s sleep too, which helps with not getting that afternoon lull.”
What are her views on the obsession with plastic surgery and with looking younger and better at any expense? “There’s an extreme pressure on women and men to just stay young. And it’s magazines, it’s the Internet. It’s pressure for some reason and women and men don’t (think) it beautiful to grow old gracefully. (There are) a lot of women in our industry who have and there’s a lot who don’t. And the unfortunate thing is, a lot of women go too far, (and) end up looking a lot older than they actually are. So, talk to me in ten years!”
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