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Jennifer Aniston is 'so over cancel culture': 'Is there no redemption?'
Entertainment Weekly ^ | August 22, 2023 | Jessica Wang

Posted on 08/24/2023 10:47:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway

"I don't put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket."

Jennifer Aniston would like to cancel cancel culture.

"I'm so over cancel culture," she told Wall Street Journal in a new cover story published Tuesday. "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 in the Harvey Weinstein basket."

Aniston said she was not personally harassed by the disgraced film producer and convicted sex offender, but she would not categorize her experiences with him as pleasant. "He's not a guy, you're like, 'God, I can't wait to hang out with Harvey.' Never," she said. "You were actually like, 'Oh, God, OK, suck it up.' I remember actually, he came to visit me on a movie to pitch me a movie. And I do remember consciously having a person stay in my trailer."

In response, Weinstein told WSJ Aniston "never had any uncomfortable instances with me."

Jennifer Aniston attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix's "Murder Mystery 2" at Regency Village Theatre on March 28, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Jennifer Aniston | CREDIT: AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN/FILMMAGIC Weinstein was sentenced to 39 years in prison earlier this year following rape and sexual assault convictions in both New York and Los Angeles. The allegations against him revitalized activist Tarana Burke's #MeToo movement in 2017, with over 80 women having since accused Weinstein of misconduct and assault, including stars Ashley Judd and Gwyneth Paltrow. Such behavior in the workplace serves as the basis of Aniston's acclaimed Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, which follows a newsroom rattled by sexual misconduct allegations against one of its anchors.

Aniston has lamented the shifting culture before, stating that the evolution of comedy has made the art "tricky" in conversation with French outlet AFP earlier this year. Her hit '90s sitcom Friends, which has been reassessed by some modern-day critics as racist, homophobic, and sizeist, would not thrive in this particular landscape, she said. "There's a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of Friends and find them offensive," Aniston said. "There were things that were never intentional and others. We should have thought it through, but I don't think there was a sensitivity like there is now."

She added, "We can't take ourselves too seriously. Especially in the United States. Everyone is far too divided."


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To: nickcarraway

Good for her, but she can afford to have this opinion.

Others in her line of work who aren’t filthy rich, are afraid of being blacklisted, that’s why cancel culture is so insidious.


21 posted on 08/24/2023 12:00:17 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Fungi

That’s a big ask bro!


22 posted on 08/24/2023 12:18:12 PM PDT by ruiner
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To: gundog

She and the other actors knew about Weinstein and kept quiet. Many other women were harmed because of it.


23 posted on 08/24/2023 12:31:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

The whole point of “Me Too” was to get Trump with it, when instead it got Weinstein, suddenly everybody in Hollywood is going, “Wait, that’s not what we meant!”


24 posted on 08/24/2023 12:39:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

She’s made enough money; she can afford to be cancelled.


25 posted on 08/24/2023 1:17:13 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s only because they Libtards found old friends episodes that are politically incorrect aka NOT WOKE

Now all of a sudden she’s against the culture she has supported 🙄


26 posted on 08/24/2023 1:17:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: gundog

She looks like she’s more likely to kick your butt than be friendly

Nice pic hopes she’s on her meds


27 posted on 08/24/2023 1:18:43 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Fungi

“ Take the breasts away and she looks like a guy with long hair.”

She looks like Joe Elliot lead singer Def Leppard


28 posted on 08/24/2023 1:20:58 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NWFree

Great, now I’ll never be able to look at her in the same way ever again.


29 posted on 08/24/2023 1:21:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Good. She’s ugly. Cannot understand how she’s viewed as attractive.


30 posted on 08/24/2023 1:28:04 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve certainly heard of her...and I don’t have the first clue what she’s done.But there was a time at least when she was stunningly beautiful!


31 posted on 08/24/2023 2:21:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: Fungi

ahh but there they are. give due credit!


32 posted on 08/24/2023 2:30:21 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: old-ager

Credit for what, being ugly?


33 posted on 08/24/2023 2:31:33 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: joshua c

House arrest at my house.


34 posted on 08/24/2023 2:38:21 PM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: ruiner

That mahgds noooggn senses bro!!!


35 posted on 08/24/2023 7:59:42 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: gundog

"You've grown at least a foot since I've seen you last..."
36 posted on 01/14/2024 3:30:23 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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