Could she be more done with cancel culture?
In a recent interview with WSJ Magazine, Jennifer Aniston, 54, says she refuses to carry individuals who make mistakes in the identical regard as former Hollywood mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, 71.
“I’m so over cancel culture,” the “Morning Show” star told the outlet. “I probably just got canceled by saying that. I just don’t understand what it means. … Is there no redemption? I don’t know. I don’t put everybody within the Harvey Weinstein basket.”
The “Friends” starlet and the disgraced producer worked together on the “Derailed” movie in 2005.
Aniston just isn’t one in all the 80-plus women within the film industry who’ve accused Weinstein of sexual abuse, but she does admit she never looked forward to spending time with him.
“He’s not a man, you’re like, ‘God, I can’t wait to hang around with Harvey.’ Never,” Aniston said. “You were actually like, ‘Oh, God, OK, suck it up.’”
She continued: “I remember actually, he came over me on a movie to pitch me a movie. And I do remember consciously having an individual stay in my trailer.”
The Post has contacted reps for Aniston for comment.
The Post received a lengthy statement from Weinstein via his rep following Aniston’s comments.
“I had a wonderful skilled relationship with Jennifer Aniston on the making of ‘Derailed,’” begins the statement “From Harvey.”
“If I used to be creepy, or if I had made her uncomfortable, she would have told her manager, agent, or director who would have handled something like that. We never had any instances like that — ever.”
For her part, Aniston recently found herself in the midst of controversy when she appeared to “like” Jamie Foxx’s “antisemitic” Instagram post earlier this month.
“This really makes me sick,” she wrote on her Instagram Story in response to the backlash. “I didn’t ‘like’ this post on purpose or by accident.”
“And more importantly, I need to be clear to my friends and anyone hurt by this showing up of their feeds — I do NOT support any type of antisemitism,” she added. “And I really don’t tolerate HATE of any kind. Period.”
On the time, Aniston didn’t say how her name got here up as a “liker” of Foxx’s post if she didn’t deliberately or by chance prefer it. It’s possible that a screenshot of the image had been doctored to incorporate her name.
In March, Aniston spoke concerning the changing comedy landscape and the way “there’s a complete generation of individuals, kids, who are actually going back to episodes of ‘Friends’ and find them offensive.”
“There have been things that were never intentional and others … well, we should always have thought it through, but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there’s now,” the actress, who portrayed Rachel Green on the hit sitcom, said about a few of the show’s more controversial plot lines that likely wouldn’t be humorous to today’s audiences.
“Friends” aired from 1994 to 2004.
“Comedy has evolved — movies have evolved,” Aniston continued. “Now, it’s a little bit tricky because you have got to be very careful, which makes it really hard for comedians, because the fantastic thing about comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, make fun of life.”
Elsewhere in her conversation with WSJ Magazine, the “Just Go With It” star, who is commonly praised for her age-defying looks, admitted she’s going to “try almost anything” to look young — including a salmon-sperm facial.
Weinstein responds to Aniston’s remarks
When contacted by The Post for comment on Aniston’s remarks, a rep for Weinstein claimed the imprisoned producer “requests” we “don’t merely cherry-pick the comments because the WSJ did, but use all of it.”
“I had a wonderful skilled relationship with Jennifer Aniston on the making of ‘Derailed,’” reads the statement “From Harvey.”
“If I used to be creepy, or if I had made her uncomfortable, she would have told her manager, agent, or director who would have handled something like that. We never had any instances like that — ever.”
Weinstein continued: “When Brad Pitt left Jennifer she was shooting ‘Derailed.’ I offered to shut the movie down for some time in order that she could handle her personal business. Because the outstanding skilled person who she is, she declined my offer and finished the movie under personal duress.”
“What’s truly sad is that Jennifer could have just relayed to you as you said to me, that she never had any uncomfortable instances with me, but to be relevant or to ‘enhance’ her publicity, my name must someway be thrown in suggesting something to vilify me on reflection for their very own gain,” he concluded.
