The actors in Friends are so synonymous with their television roles that it’s hard to imagine them in other roles early in their careers. So it was interesting that we discovered grainy images of the “Just Go With It” actress as a young lady in a collection of pre-Friends movies and shows that never aired. Want to know the personal details of what it was like for the “Bounty Hunter” and “Cake” actress before it happened? Here’s our list of sitcoms and movies Jennifer Aniston staked out on but failed before her breakout role on Friends.
Since her breakout role as Rachel Green in 1994, Jennifer Aniston has been a household name, but before that she landed roles in a number of sitcoms, many of which have been canceled, which is so common in Hollywood. . Luckily for us, the tapes weren’t deleted, so be prepared to send them back to the blasts of ’90s nostalgia.
Molloy (1990)
Fox’s Molloy, played Mayim Bialik of The Big Bang Theory who played 11-year-old Molloy Martin, who moved from New York to Los Angeles after his mother died, moving in with his father, stepmother and family . The Friends actress was only 21 at the time and was cast to play Molloy’s sassy and beauty-obsessed older half-sister. Jennifer was Courtney Walker. Mayim herself has shared a few flashbacks to the set of Molloy on social media and they’re comedy gold, with lots of side bangs, hats, and other ’90s styles.
As for watching Molloy, just know that everything from fashion to set design is supremely and 100% 90s. Except for the fact that the subtle, iconic Rachel Green highlights of Jennifer Aniston’s 90s didn’t have still started. Instead, she had an 80s-inspired combed back side ponytail.
In a preview clip, Jen breaks into the family kitchen – dressed in a mini and questionable white tights – didn’t you make some silly choices when you were younger? So no shade here.
Ferris Bueller (1990-1991)
In the 90s, Jennifer Aniston was classified as the bad guy, not the girl next door. After playing the spoiled sister on Molloy, she got a gig as the spoiled other sister on the Ferris TV adaptation Bueller’s Day Off, starring Charlie Schlatter as Matthew Broderick.
Aniston played the role that Jennifer Gray originally did. Interestingly, Gray would go on to star in the ABC sitcom It’s Like, You Know, one of many ’90s comedies to follow in Friends’ footsteps.
Unlike Molly, you can see a lot of Rachel, the character of Aniston’s Friends, in one of her best Ferris Bueller moments … she even lusts for a big Italian hunk, much like Paolo, a black haired cat. not so liked.
The Edge (1992-1993)
During these years, Jennifer Aniston was part of the cast of The Edge, a Fox sketch series presented by Julie Brown (the cast also included Wayne Knight, Bridesmaids creator and director Paul Feig, and Alan Ruck – a other Ferris Bueller connection!). The Edge series ran concurrently with Fox’s In Living Color, but was not as successful, only surviving for one season.
Thankfully, YouTube has preserved Aniston’s most notable moments from the series, including a sketch that is mostly just long, slow panning of Aniston’s swimsuit-clad body, as well as a parody. 90210 (she played Jennie Garth!).
Movie: ‘Leprechaun’ 1993
Like many famous actors who are now Hollywood staples, Jennifer Aniston started out in horror. Just before the premiere of “Friends,” Aniston starred in Leprechaun in 1993, a 1993 American horror comedy starring Warwick Davis in the title role, and Jennifer Aniston in her film debut in a franchise to which l The actress never returned.
Her character kind of returned in last year’s Leprechaun Returns (not really, thanks to a voice actor who did his best to emulate Jennifer Aniston). While chatting with Howard Stern, Aniston reflected on his first major movie role. “I really thought I got there when I did Leprechaun,” she told Stern.
Jennifer Aniston continued, “It was with Warwick Davis, the guy from Willow was in it. It was a big deal! I really thought it was an amazing thing that I was in a movie.
As Aniston admitted to Stern, she recently took to watching Leprechaun about eight years ago, when her then-boyfriend Justin Theroux insisted on watching him one evening.
“I watched it like 8 years ago with our mutual friend Justin Theroux for shits and laughs,” she admitted. “We were dating. It was one of those things when I tried to take that remote away from him and there just wasn’t a way to get it. He said, ‘No, no, no, no, it’s happening.’ “
“I just kept going in and out, grimacing.
Muddling Through (1994)
Aniston’s last unsuccessful sitcom before Friends was from Muddling Through. It was a CBS comedy about a woman going to jail for shooting her brave husband in the ass (sounds funny, right? – well, she had to go to jail for 2 years for that) but she learns also as her eldest daughter (Jennifer Aniston) married the state soldier who arrested her.
During this period in 1994, (possibly before Muddling Through) Jennifer Aniston pulled up to a Sunset Boulevard Chevron station, doubting herself about her career after so many failures. But chirping across from her was Warren Littlefield, then president of NBC’s entertainment division. Fortunately, she had spotted a man with the power to turn actors into superstars. Aniston bravely approached him and asked him a simple question about his career, which few actors will admit aloud but silently ask themselves after four failed sitcoms and a few movies in a row, “Is this going to happen? “
Like a good mentor, Littlefield assured her that would be the case, and months later he kept his promise by handing her the screenplay to Friends, which ultimately launched Jennifer Aniston’s future path to eventually make it to the big league in Hollywood. .
She didn’t know it at the time, and like her other sitcoms, she was doomed:
Muddling Through was such a bomb even though Aniston was under contract with the show. Thankfully, Littlefield picked her on Friends anyway, so he was sure Muddling Through would be canceled soon. Luckily for Jennifer, Muddling Through ended before FRIENDS even started. During the interview, she revealed that she was doing Muddling Through, but the show was only canceled after six episodes.
The rest is history, locked inside apartment # 20 on the set of FRIENDS
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She was broke, depressed and far too young:
Jennifer Aniston’s first acting resume was a television adaptation of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 1990, the comedy sketch show Fox The Edge in 1992, and the CBS comedy Muddling Through in 1994, when the actress was about to land her role in Friends. But she didn’t know it yet, even though she felt a change was imminent.
She told Collider in 2015, “I just had this feeling deep in my stomach that something was going to happen one way or another, and I just had to be patient.
Prior to that, Jennifer Aniston claims she was completely broke. The young actress had to take many jobs to make her dreams come true.
Jennifer Aniston was a waitress
Rachel on Friends may have worked as a waitress at Central Perk with no previous experience, Aniston paid the bills while working as a waitress at Jackson Hole Burgers on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
“I worked at a restaurant called Jackson Hole, the 85th and Columbus, a burger. The best burgers anywhere. I worked there for about two and a half years, and they’ve been so good to me.
The work helped the young actress to continue her acting career as she said:
“If I have a crappy little game on 13th Street or any other awesome job I thought I got, [her boss] Would let me go for two or three months, and they would always let me come back. My job was still there… What I thought was my real job was to be a waitress and then I would go and do theater next door.”
Jennifer Aniston was a telemarketer
Would you hate having a telemarketer calling you if it was Jennifer Aniston on the other end of the line?
The future Friends star only worked two weeks as a telemarketer.
“I moved to LA and was telemarketing next to a Taco Bell. It sounds like the Hollywood dream! Maybe she hated making calls as much as everyone else hates receiving calls.
Jennifer Aniston was a bicycle messenger
If Jennifer Aniston didn’t serve you a burger and you didn’t get a call from future Rachel Green when she was working as a telemarketer, you may have seen her walk past you when she was working as a courier. by bike.
Before the ’90s icon became one of the most famous women in the world, Jennifer Aniston was making money as best she could, including strapping on a helmet and delivering parcels and letters by bike.
She started this easy and accessible job at the age of 19, but described the gig as the most difficult job she’s ever had.
When suggested to her that the image of Aniston walking around town was sexy, she responded with a definitive response: “Not if you saw me riding my bike… My lowest moment was probably stepping into an opening door. I am very uncoordinated and extraordinarily klutzy.”
She said she was an incompetent waitress and delivered late packages as a bicycle courier. Lucky for us, she’s a killer actress and a timeless style icon!
Jennifer Aniston was a spokesperson for NutriSystem on the Howard Stern show
Jennifer Aniston was a bit chubby when she was younger. Maybe she used her weight loss story to do all she could to get funding and get noticed as an actress. She landed the two with this gig which included an appearance as a spokesperson for NutriSystem ‘Success Story’ on the Howard Stern Show. The product praise that she claimed helped her lose 15 pounds in 6 weeks.
