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On it, Aniston channels Alex Levy, a morning news anchor making the boldest leaps and power grabs of her career in her 50s. This woman is so famous that her personal life makes headlines and her private heartbreak is plastered across multiple mediums for strangers\u2019 entertainment.<\/p>\n
After one public humiliation too many in The Morning Show<\/em>\u2019s second season, Levy says, \u201cI didn\u2019t realize\u2026that the thing people would find most entertaining is not even the thing that\u2026I have risen to the highest levels of. I didn\u2019t realize that the most entertaining thing about me would be just batting me around like a freaking pi\u00f1ata while digging around asking questions about my sex life.\u201d<\/p>\n Levy and Aniston alike have emerged from the era of Hollywood when there could be only one female star in the room: The Morning Show<\/em> depicts how Levy embraces her younger coanchor; Witherspoon and Aniston are, as stars, coequals. Diane Sawyer, who inspired Aniston\u2019s performance, loves that the women have shared center stage, onscreen and off. \u201cAn alliance of women who have great energy and resilience is a wonderful thing,\u201d Sawyer tells me.<\/p>\n In 2004, Sawyer was the TV host asking Aniston hard-hitting questions about some of the most vulnerable areas of her life. About how her soap opera actor father, John, left her mother, Nancy, an actor and model, so suddenly that her mom broke the news to Aniston when she got home from a birthday party. \u201cIt was pretty quick,\u201d Aniston laughs to Sawyer on ABC\u2019s Primetime Thursday<\/em> broadcast, making light of the heartbreak. About her mother\u2019s criticisms of Aniston as a child\u2014that her nose was too big and her eyes too close together. Aniston explains from her perspective: \u201chelpful beauty tips.\u201d About how many kids she and her then husband, Brad Pitt<\/a>, wanted to have. \u201cWe\u2019d definitely love to have two, at least,\u201d Aniston answers.<\/p>\n While Levy has developed a self-protective steeliness after her decades in the public eye, Aniston hasn\u2019t\u2014not even after nearly four decades, two divorces, approximately two thousand tabloid covers, and years of overly personal questions from strangers.<\/p>\n \u201cI think her superpower is that she could very easily be hard, but she\u2019s incredibly open,\u201d says Sandra Bullock, a close friend. \u201cPeople want to know about her and understand where she is in life and want her to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n Fame was never Aniston\u2019s goal\u2014and it still knocks her sideways sometimes. (She views paparazzi when she\u2019s working as \u201calmost an embarrassment, to be honest.\u201d) Growing up, she recalls, people looked to actors like Shirley MacLaine and Mary Tyler Moore not because they were gorgeous and on magazine covers, but because they had made movies and television that moved them. Aniston\u2019s celebrity, as gravity-pulling as it can be, has never defined her: \u201cI\u2019ve always been more into metaphysical things and \u2018What if there\u2019s something bigger out there than all of us?\u2019\u2009\u201d She\u2019s learned not to put everything at the altar of fame. \u201cIt\u2019s not real,\u201d she tells me. \u201cMy interests are other than that.\u201d During her 20s, she began joining women\u2019s circles with her female friends. She says, \u201cThat opened me up to the importance of women in each other\u2019s lives and how important it is to support and hold each other up when so many want to tear each other down.\u201d<\/p>\n About 15 years ago, Aniston and Bullock were attending a mutual friend\u2019s wedding when they locked eyes across the aisle. (Bullock doesn\u2019t know why they were sitting on separate sides, given they were both friends of the groom, but it is her memory and a better visual.) They spent the night trading shots and notes. \u201cWe were just like, \u2018Oh my God, we need to meet and cut loose,\u2019\u2009\u201d says Bullock. \u201cAnd we did.\u201d The hangover, Bullock notes, was epic. Aniston recalls, \u201cI don\u2019t know what I was sending her, but it was definitely stronger than what she was sending me.\u201d<\/p>\n Their rapport was so easy that they wondered why they hadn\u2019t spent time together before. They both love interior design, dated the actor Tate Donovan, and appreciate a practical joke: Bullock later crashed a junket interview to surprise her with tequila and limes. They shared something else too: \u201cWe were from that time in the business where no one wanted the ladies to be friends\u2014it was about pitting everyone against each other,\u201d Bullock says. \u201cWe were told we weren\u2019t supposed to do that\u2014meaning like and respect and honor each other.\u201d<\/p>\n Aniston has brought Bullock into her inner circle\u2014inviting her to holiday get-togethers, on spring break trips, to numerology readings. \u201cYou write down your birth date and, whether you believe in it or not, we\u2019re all scribbling down our thoughts and in it together,\u201d says Bullock. \u201cNothing is for her alone ever. Everything she does is for everyone else included.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vanityfair.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On it, Aniston channels Alex Levy, a morning news anchor making the boldest leaps and power grabs of her career in her 50s. This woman is so famous that her personal life makes headlines and her private heartbreak is plastered across multiple mediums for strangers\u2019 entertainment. 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