Jennifer Aniston is ‘so over’ cancel culture
Jennifer Aniston lashed out at ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of redemption. See what she said about ‘the Harvey Weinstein basket’.
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Hollywood superstar Jennifer Aniston has revealed she is “so over cancel culture”, declaring that not everybody should be put in the “Harvey Weinstein basket”.
“I probably just got cancelled by saying that. I just don’t understand what it means … Is there no redemption?” she said to the WSJ Magazine. “I don’t know. I don’t put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket.”
Aniston and disgraced movie mogul Weinstein, who is currently serving 39 years in prison for sex crimes, worked together on the 2005 film, Derailed.
“He’s not a guy, you’re like, ‘God, I can’t wait to hang out with Harvey.’ Never. You were actually like, ‘Oh, God, OK, suck it up,’” Aniston told the outlet.
“I remember actually, he came to visit me on a movie to pitch me a movie. And I do remember consciously having a person stay in my trailer.”
Aniston recently found herself in the middle of controversy when she appeared to “like” an Instagram post by Jamie Foxx that was accused of being antisemitic earlier this month.
“This really makes me sick,” she wrote on her Instagram Story in response to the backlash.
“I did not ‘like’ this post on purpose or by accident.”
“And more importantly, I want to be clear to my friends and anyone hurt by this showing up in their feeds — I do NOT support any form of antisemitism,” she said.
“And I truly don’t tolerate HATE of any kind. Period.”
At the time, Aniston did not say how her name came up as a “liker” of Foxx’s post if she didn’t deliberately or accidentally like it. It’s possible that a screenshot of the image had been doctored to include her name.
In March, Aniston spoke about the changing comedy landscape and how “there’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of Friends and find them offensive”.
“There were things that were never intentional and others … well, we should have thought it through, but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there is now,” the actress, who appeared on the show from 1994 to 2004, said about some of the show’s more controversial plot lines that likely wouldn’t be funny to today’s audiences.
“Comedy has evolved — movies have evolved,” Aniston said.
“Now, it’s a little tricky because you have to be very careful, which makes it really hard for comedians, because the beauty of comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, make fun of life.”
Aniston is getting set for the release of the third season of The Morning Show, which she stars in and produces. The show details a fictional news program that’s rocked by a sexual misconduct scandal.
“It was one of our big rules up front,” she says of the hit Apple series.
“No assholes. Make sure you’re getting in bed with people you’re going to be happy to wake up with in the morning.”
Aniston also opened up about the added responsibility of producing the series alongside co-star and co-producer, Reese Witherspoon.
“This is very big-girl,” she said.
“The other projects we’ve done have been a movie here and there. So this is the first real big show that was sold to Apple … And we kind of felt like we were all partnering up together and launching this new maiden voyage together. It’s nice to share a lot of the responsibility with somebody that you’ve known forever,” she said.
“Being that we’re female, there’s a level of understanding, compassion and consideration that I think doesn’t always exist among the dudes.”
The former Friends star, who is reportedly worth A$600 million, also opened up about her success.
“I feel like I am a self-made woman and I’m really proud of that,” she said.
“I’m a businesswoman who’s got a crunchy side but there was a time in my world, my career, where I realised it’s not being aggressive or combative or b**chy or emotional to stand up for what you deserve and what you want. It’s a tough muscle to build. And also be loved and respected. It’s hard to achieve.”
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