{"id":713,"date":"2020-06-26T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=174670"},"modified":"2020-10-30T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T23:54:50","slug":"jennifer-aniston-rachel-green-typecast","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-aniston-rachel-green-typecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston Tells Reese Witherspoon And Zendaya About How She Couldn\u2019t Escape Rachel Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_174672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174672\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-174672 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jennifer-aniston-as-rachel-green-news-photo-1568882276.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Aniston Rachel Green\" width=\"480\" height=\"481\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-174672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Pinterest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jennifer Aniston has joined Reese Witherspoon, Zendaya, Janelle Monae, Rose Byrne and Helena Bonham-Carter on a Drama Actress Roundtable via Zoom to talk about everything from dismantling racism to on-screen typecasting in film.<\/p>\n<p>Published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/features\/drama-actress-roundtable-zendaya-jennifer-aniston-janelle-monae-reese-witherspoon-rose-byrne-helena-1299984\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, the women were asked if they were ever pigeonholed as an actor with one certain set of skills. Aniston piped up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not get Rachel Green off of my back for the life of me. I could not escape, \u2018Just Rachel from <em>Friends,<\/em>\u2019\u201d says Aniston presumably from her home in Bel Air in Los Angeles. \u201cAnd it\u2019s on all the time and you\u2019re like, \u2018Stop playing this f***ing show!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI completely fought with myself and who I was in this industry forever because it was just constantly about trying to prove that I was more than that,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drama Actresses Roundtable: Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Jennifer Aniston, Zendaya, Reese Witherspoon | Close Up\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hg4GmhryB0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"price-style\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/morning-wars-finale\/\">READ: JENNIFER ANISTON, REESE WITHERSPOON AND THE EXPLOSIVE ENDING TO \u201cTHE MORNING SHOW\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aniston, now 50, acknowledged the role that changed this for her. \u201c<em>The Good Girl<\/em>\u00a0was the first time I got to really shed whatever the Rachel character was, and to be able to disappear into someone who wasn\u2019t that was such a relief to me,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I remember the panic that set over me, thinking, \u2018Oh God, I don\u2019t know if I can do this. Maybe they\u2019re right. Maybe everybody else is seeing something I\u2019m not seeing, which is you are only that girl in the New York apartment with the purple walls.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I was almost doing it for myself just to see if I could do something other than that. And it was terrifying because you\u2019re doing it in front of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"price-style\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/the-5-best-nyc-moments-on-friends\/\">READ: The 5 Best NYC moments on &#8220;Friends&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Is it strange that my mind instantly goes to the<em> Friends<\/em> episode where Rachel buys the cat that \u201clooks like a hand\u201d which she swears keeps hissing at her \u201cRachhell\u201d? As though the industry represent Mrs Whiskerson? See below at 2.12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Friends - Rachel and...it&#039;s not a cat ?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ne5ianpL4u8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s just me. But if <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/morning-wars-finale\/\"><em>The Morning Show<\/em> proved anything, it\u2019s that Jennifer Aniston is a <em><u>great <\/u><\/em>actor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America loves ME\u2502The Morning Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6ad7hrNx7c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":714,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jennifer Aniston Says She Could Never Escape Rachel Green<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jennifer Aniston has joined a conversation with Janelle Moae, Reese Witherspoon, Rose Byrne, 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