Jennifer Aniston has been having a great time starring as tough-talking, cunning morning show star Alex Levy on The Morning Show.
And the Friends told Drew Barrymore on Monday while on stage at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles that playing Alex has been better for her mental health than years of therapy.
The ex of Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux also said she does not care what people think of her playing an aggressive women on the Apple TV+ show because she no longer gives a ‘rat’s ass’ about judgments.
Sitting pretty:Â Jennifer Aniston told Drew Barrymore on Monday while at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles that playing Alex on The Morning Show has been better for her mental health than years of therapy
Don’t care:Â The ex of Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux also said she does not care what people think of her playing an aggressive women on the Apple TV+ show because she no longer gives a ‘rat’s ass’ about judgments
Monday’s show kicked off season two of The Drew Barrymore Show.
Drew asked Jen: You know The Morning Show, what are you channeling in that because it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen as an actress and in your body of work?
Jennifer replied: ‘It was basically about just revisiting some of the shadows, blind spots that I put into a particular file and meeting them head on and actually releasing them.’
And the We’re The Millers star also said it was like ‘an extraordinary therapy, better than any actual therapist that I’ve been going to for years on end.’
The character: Drew asked Jen: You know The Morning Show, what are you channeling in that because it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen as an actress and in your body of work? Jennifer replied: ‘It was basically about just revisiting some of the shadows, blind spots that I put into a particular file and meeting them head on and actually releasing them’
When Drew asked if Levy ‘is the closest character to you or that you’ve blessed it with some of your deepest truths’ Jennifer said it’s a little bit of both.
‘Alex Levy is people, someone maybe in particular, who I have witnessed in my life,’ said the pinup.
‘People, say a combination of people, who I have watched and I remember thinking, “I don’t want to ever do that. I don’t want to be that.”
Therapy: And the We’re The Millers star also said it was like ‘an extraordinary therapy, better than any actual therapist that I’ve been going to for years on end’
‘Then there is sort of tapping into the part that wants to have that scream into your pillow yell, which I was never able to do until I did it in front of 150 crew members.
In the past she would not let yourself do that.
‘I didn’t know how to, I like to discuss things, have a conversation, a rational conversation because if you ever with someone who is a screamer, nothing gets done. I just go shut down, shut down, shut down.’
Jen’s role: When Drew asked if Levy ‘is the closest character to you or that you’ve blessed it with some of your deepest truths’ Jennifer said it’s a little bit of both. ‘Alex Levy is people, someone maybe in particular, who I have witnessed in my life,’ said the pinup
Making some extra coin: Aniston has just launched her LolaVie hair care line
And she said she really feels like she has nothing to lose now.
‘There is a part as you get older that you just hit a wonderful who gives a rat’s ***,’ said Aniston.
Drew then said: ‘I thank you for sharing that with the world because it’s cathartic for us watching it. I’m serious, I just marvel. I marvel, I marvel, I marvel.’
They also talked pal Adam Sandler. Jennifer has worked with the actor of Just Go With It… and Murder Mystery.
And Drew and Adam made The Wedding Singer and First 50 Dates.
The Sandler connection: Drew then said there was a Twitter debate about who is a better partner for Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston or Drew Barrymore? Jennifer said, ‘Oh well that’s a no brainer. There’s the phrase the guys like to say bros before hoes. Drew: ‘Oh my God I was going to say hoes before bros’
Jennifer called him The Sand Man and added, ‘He’s a unicorn because he is joy, he walks with joy, lives with joy and he doesn’t get moody. Yeah, comedians are moody.’
Drew then said there was a Twitter debate about who is a better partner for Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston or Drew Barrymore?
Jennifer said, ‘Oh well that’s a no brainer. There’s the phrase the guys like to say bros before hoes.
Drew: ‘Oh my God I was going to say hoes before bros.’
Aniston then said, ‘Always.’
Good call: And Drew surprised Drew-Gooder Dolores Sheen , who is co-founder of L.A.’s Sheenway School & Cultural Center, with $20,000 for the school
Barrymore then said:’ And that is sisterhood. And we have had that and you have that with your friends and we just celebrate that and I loved that that was the true answer.’
Drew and Jennifer also played a game of Let’s Make A Deal to raise money for Wagmore Pets Dog Rescue with special Host Wayne Brady.
And Drew surprised Drew-Gooder Dolores Sheen, who is co-founder of L.A.’s Sheenway School & Cultural Center, with $20,000 for the school.
Tune in to new episodes of The Drew Barrymore Show weekdays. Season two kicks off on Monday, September 13. Visit thedrewbarrymoreshow.com for air times .
