‘Did I sell that to you?’: Jennifer Aniston’s awkward TV interview about Morning Wars

It was an cringe-worthy segment fitting of Morning Wars. Jennifer Aniston was less impressed by a British host during a TV interview, leaving viewers stunned.

It was an awkward TV moment almost fitting of a Morning Wars plot line.

Jennifer Aniston was less than impressed by a British presenter during an interview to promote her Apple TV+ series Morning Wars (aka The Morning Show) in which she plays cutthroat breakfast host, Alex Levy.

Aniston appeared on the UK’s The One Show with co-star Reese Witherspoon and it did not go to plan, after Aniston was cut off by interviewer Jermaine Jenas.

The former Friends star gave the ex-England soccer player a death stare, prompting criticism on social media when the conversation turned to what it was like shooting scenes “in the early hours of the morning”.

“I learned the slow burn that it is,” Aniston said. “It’s a very vampire state of life and mind that you guys live in. Everybody comes alive in the middle of the night, and it’s a slow-moving train.

Jennifer Aniston had an awkward TV interview while promoting Morning Wars (aka The Morning Show). Picture: AFP

“I got there at five in the morning and the hallways were quiet and people are just slowly waking up, and then all of a sudden, the train starts moving and it gets crazier and crazier. It’s utter chaos.”

However, the interview turned sour when Jenas seemingly interrupted Aniston to ask Witherspoon a question, insinuating that Aniston doesn’t like getting up early.

“Reese, I’ve got to be honest with you, Jennifer’s pretty much sold it to me that she’s not a morning person,” he said, to which Aniston appeared stunned.

“Did I sell that to you?’” Aniston uncomfortably asked, to which Jenas responded, “A little bit, a little bit”.

“Did I get a good deal?” the actor said. Jenas, a former English soccer player, then laughed and tried to involve Witherspoon, abruptly saying, “So, what about you, Reese?”

Witherspoon replied: “I’m definitely a morning person. Jen and I talk about this all the time. I’m the morning person and she’s more of a night person”.

“It actually works out because I do kind of the early morning scenes, and then by 4pm I’m toast, and then Jen starts around 11am and 12pm, and then she can do the night scenes because I can’t even think straight past 4pm.”

Viewers took to Twitter to dissect the way Aniston responded to Jenas. “Did anyone else catch Jennifer Aniston’s [sic] negative reaction to the male presenter regarding the morning person bit? Awkward,” one person tweeted, per the New York Post.

“Jennifer Aniston’s ‘tude in this interview is cringe. She keeps on looking to the side awkward #theoneshow.”

ANISTON’S FITTING NEW ROLE

She had one of the most copied haircuts in history and now Aniston has teased a new beauty business venture.

The former Friends star has launched her own brand, titled LolaVie.

Aniston, 52, teased the news on Instagram and via LolaVie’s website, which shows test tubes filled with bamboo, lemons and water, perhaps hinting at all-natural skincare, New York Post reports.

Per Page Six, an application was filed to trademark the name “LolaVie” in the areas of face and body lotion, shower gel, candles and hair care in July 2019.

This is not Aniston’s first venture into the beauty world. She was a co-owner of haircare brand Living Proof – available in Australia at Mecca – before its sale to Unilever in 2016.

Jennifer Aniston has launched her own beauty brand. Picture: Getty Images

Aniston’s posts about LolaVie showed the Morning Wars star from behind, with her hair in loose, beachy waves, teasing only that “something’s coming”.

The style icon holds the title of chief creative officer at Vital Proteins and has long been the face of Aveeno.

In 2010, she released a perfume called LolaVie — which she explained meant “laughing at life” — but later abruptly changed the scent’s name to “Jennifer Aniston” due to conflicts with a similar brand.

“It’s a long story and honestly it’s too personal to tell, but it has a special significance,” she said at the time, of her original name choice.

Aniston joins Hailey Baldwin, Ariana Grande and Harry Styles who are set to launch beauty brands this year.

Styles is rumoured to be launching a line of nail polish under the name Styles, Harry Edward (aka “SHE”).

Kim Kardashian West is relaunching her KKW Beauty line, while her sister Kylie Jenner recently launched her brand Kylie Cosmetics into the Australian market, with a mega deal at Mecca.

Jennifer Lopez has JLo Beauty and Rihanna has had huge success with Fenty and Fenty Skin – available at Sephora – which recently landed her on Forbes’ billionaire’s list.

Meantime, Aniston is preparing to launch the much-anticipated second season of The Morning Show (known as “Morning Wars” in Australia) on Apple TV+, which was shot during the Covid pandemic.

“[As] actors, we were living in an alternate universe where Covid did not exist,” Aniston told InStyle.

“I was able to walk into it pretty centred, knowing we had an incredible epidemiology team. I missed seeing my crew’s faces — that was tough.

“I also wasn’t with Reese [Witherspoon, her co-star] or the rest of the cast as often as in the first season. But the writing is incredible.”

As for the return of red carpets in the wake of Covid, Aniston is taking inspo from one of her contemporaries – Jennifer Lopez, when it comes to posing.

“I want to know what gives her the look like she’s about to be seething. It’s amazing,” Aniston said.

“She’s almost stuck getting mad at somebody, but she’s just so gorgeous. She’s like, ‘I can’t believe I’m standing here’. But I don’t think she’s trying; she fell out of bed that way. She’s a performer.”

Originally published as ‘Did I sell that to you?’: Jennifer Aniston’s awkward TV interview about Morning Wars