Jenny and Paul, together again. Photo Credit: GQ
With their new film Wanderlust coming soon to theaters, Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, who worked together in The Object of My Affection all the way back in 1998, sat down to chat with GQ. Having started out in the industry at the same time and both looking untouched by age, the imaginary couple has great chemistry, as exhibited by both their cover shoot and their interview. Here are some excerpts:
GQ: Your new movie, Wanderlust, is about a marriage at a turning point. Paul, you’ve been married for a long time. And Jen, I gather you’ve been married, too?
Jennifer Aniston: That is correct. And I’m now divorced. In case you hadn’t heard.
Paul Rudd: [does spit take] Whaaat?!
GQ: So did some of the issues resonate for you?
Paul Rudd: Sure. I think most marriages, mine included, you’re constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.
Jennifer Aniston: It’s a growing, literally living thing. There’s going to be growing pains, there’s going to be awkward moments—your lanky phase, your pimpled phase. I think that’s the beauty of a relationship. But if the road starts to…
Paul Rudd: …diverge…
Jennifer Aniston: …and one person is growing this way and the other is growing that way… Sometimes that can happen and you can stay together, and sometimes you can’t.
GQ: You don’t understand the curiosity? You’ve been living with it a long time.
Jennifer Aniston: I have. I’m still trying really hard to be friends with it. It’s just a weird time, I think. The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it’s my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds…
Paul Rudd: Are your quadruplets feuding with each other?
Jennifer Aniston: They’re feuding again.
Paul Rudd: Oh, my God. I’m sorry to hear that.
GQ: So what happens when one day there are twins? The tabloids won’t believe you.
Paul Rudd: Will you quit being the girl who cried “twins”?
Jennifer Aniston: The one time I do say, “Yes! I’m pregnant!” they’ll be like, “Pfft. Right.” Anyway, I’m drawing the line on the children conversation. You heard it here. I’m not knocked up now.
Paul Rudd: I literally thought for the last twenty minutes that we’d been talking about dog urine. I’m totally turned around.
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