BETTY: With your mad success on Friends and just getting hitched to Brad Pitt, you must have an insane schedule. With all of those crazy commitments, why this movie? What drew you into your role in Rock Star?
JENNIFER: It fit into the slot really nicely and it also allowed for some free time, which I always need before going back to work on Friends. And it was Mark Wahlberg - and that really excited me. Plus it was a fun, rock & roll, popcorn, junk food kinda movie. And I was into it. I thought it was also a touching love story.

BETTY: In one scene in which you and Mark's character have to do some steamy dancing at a nightclub with SEVERAL partners, I heard a bit of tequila went a long way!
JENNIFER: [Laughs] That was my bad acting, unfortunately. There wasn't a lot of tequila… because it's all choreographed and then you have to make it look real and comfortable… and I was so uncomfortable and out of my body… it was pretty intense for me.

BETTY: Okay, I just gotta ask this… How did your hubby, Brad Pitt react when he saw you kissing a girl in that scene?
JENNIFER: He was fine. [Laughs] I don't think that bothered him at all.

Jennifer Aniston in Rock Star.
Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

BETTY: Okay, I'll buy that.... but didn't he squeeze your hand a bit harder when the love scenes popped up on screen with you and Mark? How'd he handle those?
JENNIFER: Yeah he's seen it. But you just know what it is. It's so technical - and there's nothing. It just doesn't mean anything. You have so many people around you and it's literally bit by bit.

BETTY: What about you? Are you jealous when you see Brad with a woman in a film?
JENNIFER: No. It's just not real. It's a movie.

BETTY: Is it true that he was slated to actually play the part instead of Mark Wahlberg?
JENNIFER: Yeah. About a year before it came around the second time, he and the writer, John Stockwell, were talking about it with Warner Bros. and then I don't know what happened. Eventually it came back (it was called Metal God at the time) and they beefed up my character's role.

BETTY: What about working with Brad? Would you like that?
JENNIFER: I'd love to do that. I truly would. And when it's right it will be. But can you imagine the microscope we'd be under for that one? We'll just stay married for a while first.

BETTY: This movie covers a lot of metal music that was big in the '80s. I'm curious to know, what type of music did you listen to back then?
JENNIFER: I'd listen to everybody. Depeche Mode and The Go-Go's… I think we even tried to form a girl band at one point - I was like 13 or 14 at the time.

BETTY: You were in a girl band?
JENNIFER: No. We tried to do it, but there was no musical talent - at all.

BETTY: Can you sing?
JENNIFER: No!

BETTY: Not even Karaoke?
JENNIFER: No! It's humiliating. I have stage fright oddly enough. Unless it's written for me and I know I can do it, I'd just be petrified on stage.

BETTY: Did you ever have any crushes on the singers from that era?
JENNIFER: Sure I did. There was my Aerosmith obsession…I loved Duran Duran….

BETTY: Were you ever a George Michael fan?
JENNIFER: No, I never liked Wham! I was an Aerosmith fan. You know, Chicago and the Doobie Brothers.

BETTY: What about now? Who do you listen to these days?
JENNIFER: Well all those bands really transcend - but now Radiohead is a big favorite. And Jill Scott and Missy Elliot I love. I'm also into Cold Play and Moby.

Jennifer Aniston stands be her man (Mark Wahlberg) in Rock Star.
Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

BETTY: Can you identify with the "cult of celebrity" aspect of this movie?
How fame hits this young man so quickly and the media spotlight he's thrown into?
JENNIFER: Yeah, definitely. Especially the speedy rise to fame, I can totally relate to it in terms of Friends. It got big so fast - and not knowing what's going on and what it all means…why are people so nice to me now…and why am I getting free clothes when I can afford to buy them?… all those weird things that happen to celebrities that just make you question it.

BETTY: Do you question it?
JENNIFER: Of course I question it. How can you not? It's just a bizarre thing that happens.

BETTY: Do you think you have a good relationship with the press? Unfortunately, there's always things being written about you and things taken out of context…
JENNIFER: No. I've given up on it all. I truly have. There's a point where you say, "It doesn't matter what I say… it doesn't matter what I really feel"… There will always be someone who misrepresents you or creates something that's not even there.

Jennifer Aniston and Mark Wahlberg do some dirty dancing in Rock Star.
Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

BETTY: There's a scene in the movie where you and Mark walk around in this rock star's huge mansion… and you're both in awe. Didn't you and Brad just buy a large place like the one depicted in the movie?
JENNIFER: Oh God, not at all. That's a mansion. I have a beautiful, humble little home. Everything's been exaggerated…the price of it, the size of it.

BETTY: Are you going to decorate it yourself?
JENNIFER: Oh yeah. We both love to do that. But we'll stick with the integrity of the house. It's beautiful.