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Jennifer, one of the stunning aspects of Horrible Bosses
is your character's outrageousness. Do you think there's a shift in
comedy towards gorgeous women saying really naughty
things?
JENNIFER ANISTON: I'm not going to answer that.
[Laughs] I know I had no hesitation to answer that part of your
question at all.
JASON SUDEIKIS: She made them dirtier.
[Laughs]
JENNIFER ANISTON: I did.
Jennifer, did you work with [director] Seth Gordon to
develop the character and how much did he encourage you to use your
potty-mouth?
JENNIFER ANISTON: It wasn't really encouraged. It
was on the page, so I was just doing my job. But there was nothing
that happened that he wasn't just getting, I think, so tickled and
excited about. After every take, he would just be like, 'The
raunchier, the better.' So, it was pretty easy. It really
was.
SETH GORDON: I was cackling between every take,
especially all the stuff in the dentist's office, just all the
nuances of the foul mouth. I just loved it. There was always a
little wheeze and a cackle you can hear on some of the
takes.
Seth, can you talk about casting Jamie Foxx as MF
Jones?
SETH GORDON: I wanted to find a great comedian to
play that role with all the intensity that he could muster and I
feel like it's forgotten somehow that Jamie Foxx started in comedy.
He's just hilarious and I think that's because he has Oscars for
playing a different side of things, but I thought he brought such
intensity and awesomeness to that role. I think it's one of the
really strong parts of the film when he tells his back-story, just
so marvelous. I was glad he could be a part of it.
Jennifer, can you talk a little about satirizing male
sexist behavior when it is seen in a female?
JENNIFER ANISTON: That's what I think was so fun
about the part, sort of being a female that is usually the male
character. I thought of her as just like a guy and that's what made
it that much more fun.
Did you have any input into your character?
JENNIFER ANISTON: No. Not at all. [Laughs] I did
go to the dentist right beforehand though. See how they hold
the tools. The rest was easy.
Charlie, you're hilarious in this
movie.
CHARLIE DAY: Oh, thank you.
Please tell me that the photo shoot you did with Miss
Aniston actually happened and wasn't
photo-shopped.
CHARLIE DAY: Yeah, that was an actual photo
shoot. We took those photos together and we got to know each
other.
JENNIFER ANISTON: We were together.
CHARLIE DAY: We had a nice little private session
and took some photos. I've never been more embarrassed about my
body in my life than standing next to this woman. But I've since
started to see a trainer…
Jennifer, were you sort of one of the guys? And what
was the atmosphere like behind the scenes on this
movie?
JENNIFER ANISTON: I just kept apologizing to
Charlie for everything that had just happened. I wasn't with the
guys, really. It was just me and Charlie and Seth. So, we would
just sort of get to know each other in between
straddling.
Charlie, it must have been pretty rough for you. Did
you forgive Jennifer for what her character did after every
take?
CHARLIE DAY: I'll live through it, but you did
bite my ear pretty hard. I'd say.
JENNIFER ANISTON: Did I really?
CHARLIE DAY: Yeah, but it's realistic.
JENNIFER ANISTON: Well, that's what I was going
for.
Jennifer, can you tell us what's the toughest job you've
ever had?
JENNIFER ANISTON: Toughest job I ever had was
being a bike messenger in New York City.
What was your worst thing as a bike
messenger?
JENNIFER ANISTON: Probably driving into a door
that opened. I'm very uncoordinated, extraordinarily klutzy, and I
just should never have been allowed on a bicycle, with
cylinders.
Can you also talk about finding a new look for this
character in this movie?
JENNIFER ANISTON: I knew I wanted her to
look different. I wanted her to have dark hair, but I was doing a
movie right before and right after, so we had this wonderful period
of time that we call 'Hairgate' because nobody wanted me to wear
the wig. But, I was like, there's no way that I can be saying these
words and playing this woman and not look somewhat different. So,
that was really fun for me. It was such freedom. I had never had
that much fun with a character before.
For Jason Bateman, at this point in your career, are these
roles that utilize your wry humor finding you or are your people
still having to pitch you for this kind of character that you're so
good at?
JASON BATEMAN: I don't know. I mean, you do
get hired for what you last did and I guess it just kind of becomes
your choice or obligation to do different things. I haven't had the
luxury of drastically different roles coming my way. Hopefully I
will someday. And I'll take those…
JASON SUDEIKIS: Forrest Gump Two.
JASON BATEMAN: Yeah. Up until then, I will
continue to just basically take what I get.
Jennifer, your character's obviously an extreme, but do
you think that older women particularly are more confident in their
sexuality are scary to men? And do you find yourself becoming
more confident with yourself or happier with yourself as grow
older?
JENNIFER ANISTON: Absolutely. I think I
absolutely get more comfortable in my body and in who I am as I get
older, way more than when I was in my twenties. I was just so
awkward and uncomfortable. And are men intimidated by sexually
confident women? I think men are intimidated by any woman who's
sexually confident no matter what age.
Charlie, in the movie you get to talk dirty with Jennifer,
who's long been kind of an 'America's Sweetheart.' Were you
intimidated at all when you found out you'd have to get really
dirty with Rachel from Friends?
CHARLIE DAY: Yeah, but what's good is that my
natural reaction is caught there on film and goes into the movie.
So, my job was to be shocked to the things that were coming out of
her mouth. So, for me it was pretty easy and a lot of fun.
What about when you were actually saying the more
disgusting things?
CHARLIE DAY: Oh, like in the car? I don't know.
I've got a filthy mouth. It was no problem for me. [Laughs] I'll
talk dirty to anyone who wants to hear it.
Have any of you ever been part of any hair-brained schemes
that have simply gone too far?
JASON SUDEIKIS: Yeah, I got arrested for a group
of friends in college trying to break into a car wash in the middle
of winter in Kansas. Yeah, that was a hair-brained scheme that
didn't work out for any of us.
JENNIFER ANISTON: But, wait, why were you
breaking into a car wash?
JASON SUDEIKIS: It was in Fort Scott, Kansas. We
were back early for basketball practice before the rest of the
people got there, and we got into a car and there was a crowbar in
there and a friend had an idea that we were going to go crack open
like the dollar machine that you get your change out of so that you
can put it in the vacuum and we didn't get to it. [Laughs] I mean,
there was nothing going on in Kansas and we got rolled up on and
guns pulled. So, yeah, that was about the extent of my criminal
career.
Jennifer, I know you keep getting called 'America's
Sweetheart.' Did you actively want to take on this role to
kind of challenge that label?
JENNIFER ANISTON: No, I didn't take the role so
that I could sort of rid myself of that title. I don't know where
that title came from. I mean, there are so many different American
Sweethearts. I just took the part because I loved it and I thought
it would be a fun challenge and fun for me to step out of what
people usually like to see me play. That's a label. There's always
going to be something attached to you, but, no, I wasn't.
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