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Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon Just Recreated an Iconic Friends Scene


Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are getting ready for the premiere of their new series The Morning Show, but fans who’ve followed the actors throughout their careers know they first were seen together on Friends. Jennifer Aniston, of course, played Central Perk regular Rachel Green; Reese Witherspoon guest starred as her little sister, Jill Green, for a few episodes. In a recent interview, the pair turned the nostalgia dial up to one hundred by recreating one of their iconic scenes together—and it’s a joy to watch.

When Aniston and Witherspoon sat down with Access Hollywood last week to discuss The Morning Show, the interviewer brought out a photo of Aniston and Witherspoon across from each other on the Central Perk couch. Aniston immediately recognized the snap from a scene Witherspoon loved. “Is this where you say the line that you love so much?” she asks Witherspoon in the video.

The question ends up being an invitation to recreate their scene. “This is, well, we can say the line,” Witherspoon says. “Do you remember your line?”

Aniston doesn’t remember, so Witherspoon whispers it in her ear. (Teamwork: We love to see it.)

“I say, ‘You can’t have Ross,’” Aniston recites. Then Witherspoon swoops in with the punch line: “Can’t have? Can’t have? The only thing I can’t have is dairy.”

Reese Witherspoon appeared as Jennifer Aniston’s sister on the Friends episode “The One With Rachel’s Sister”

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It’s just like the original—just twenty years later. Take a look at the full interview below.

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Both actresses have done some reflecting on the show that brought them together in recent weeks. For the November cover of Harper’s Bazaar, Witherspoon spoke to Natalie Portman about acting alongside Aniston on Friends in one of her early acting jobs.



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This Scene from ‘Booksmart’ is Helping Me Learn How to Talk About Sex


I have trouble talking about sex. It’s a very present issue in my life, and I’m currently in therapy learning how to unravel the network of shame I’ve built around sexuality. Phew, glad we got that out there.

My relationship with sex has always been rocky. In high school, I felt shameful for wanting it—with women—so I repressed any real desire I felt. Even when I started dating women in my early twenties, it wasn’t some glorious sexual liberation; I retreated even further into my sexual shell, battling my own internalized homophobia. I figured my heterosexual friends wouldn’t want to hear about my sexual encounters with other women. My sex life was a dirty little secret. I wasn’t being totally transparent with my sexual partners either when it came to what I wanted and what felt good in bed—whether it was my inability to vocalize what position I liked best, or feeling scared to say “I’m too tired tonight.” I still struggle with that.

I desperately wish I was one of those hyper-empowered, sex-positive feminists, but I’m not. I mean, that’s the end goal—but after growing up repressed and feeling utterly embarrassed about my sexual desires, I’m just not there yet. I am trying. Therapy has been helpful. So has watching women own their sexuality in pop culture.

Over the past few years, a wave of female-driven movies and TV shows have started to normalize the development of female pleasure—like Pen15’s cringeworthy flirtations with adolescent desire, Blockers showing teenage girls asking for oral sex, or Outlander’s pioneering scenes that shifted focus from the male orgasm to the female orgasm on screen. But never have I felt so personally seen than when watching Booksmart, the teenage sex comedy directed by Olivia Wilde. In case you missed it, the Superbad-esque storyline follows out teenage lesbian, Amy (Kaitlyn Dever), grappling with her virginity and sexual firsts.

One scene stood out to me as especially cringeworthy, probably because it hit me where it hurt—smack dab in my own sexual embarrassment center. It was the moment when Amy, budding young lesbian, reveals she’s been humping her stuffed panda. Yes, masturbating with a stuffed animal.

Allow me to explain. While in her bedroom, Amy opens up to her best friend Molly (Beanie Feldstein) about her fear surrounding sleeping with a girl for the first time—she doesn’t know how to do it. Molly suggests that Amy take her hand the way she would masturbate, and simply “flip it.” Amy says, “What if I don’t use my hands?” As she suspiciously eyes a corner of her room, Molly guesses what Amy uses to masturbate, and Amy cringes, begging her to stop: “Can we just stop talking about this, please? For the love of all things!” Relatable. Finally, Amy admits, “It’s the panda, ok?!” Molly doesn’t shame her, but she does poke fun at the ridiculousness of the scenario: “Does she talk dirty to you? Tell you about how she’s endangered?”

This scene had me reliving my sexual shame all over again—because I can relate. I’ve never admitted this out loud, or written it down, or told another soul, but when I was a pre-teen…I used to masturbate by humping a vibrating pillow. It was hot pink and squishy and was meant to be a massage pillow and I stained it from…well, you get it.

This is mortifying to admit, let alone publish. But honestly, the Booksmart scene between Amy and Molly made me feel so much better about my own past. Clearly I’m not as weird and alone as I thought I was for the past decade and a half. For 15 years I’ve been carrying this well of shame about early masturbation because I was completely alone in learning how to masturbate. I had no idea what was normal—I just assumed I was some sort of freak.



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It Chapter Two Review: How Jessica Chastain Made Sure a Key Scene From the Book Was Included


When It hit theaters in 2017, a new generation of fans—ones who hadn’t read the Stephen King novel or seen the 1990 miniseries—may have expected a simple horror movie about a kid-murdering clown. Instead, they got an unsettling look at the intense pain and fear that develops from childhood trauma via the Losers’ Club, a group of kids (Bill, Richie, Ben, Mike, Eddie, Stanley, and Beverly) who face their personal demons head on in the form of “It,” a creature that shape-shifts itself into its opponents’ worst nightmares.

The sequel It Chapter Two, now in theaters, picks up 27 years later. The Losers’ Club may have defeated Pennywise two decades ago, but they’re still dealing with the effects. Bill (James McAvoy), a successful-ish author, is haunted by guilt over his brother’s death. Ben (Jay Ryan) has transformed into a hot architect still pining over his childhood crush. Though Richie (Bill Hader) turned his wise-cracking personality into a stand-up career, he’s without love, family, or friends who aren’t employees. Mike (Isaiah Mustafa) gave up his dreams to stay in Derry and obsess over Pennywise. Eddie (James Ransone) remains a hypochondriac, but he’s replaced his overbearing, emotionally abusive mother with an overbearing, emotionally abusive wife. Only Stanley (Andy Bean), now a wealthy accountant with a happy marriage, seems to be centered…that is, until Mike calls with the news that Pennywise is back.

Bill Hader (Richie), Jessica Chastain (Beverly), James McAvoy (Bill), James Ransone (Eddie), Isaiah Mustafa (Mike), Jay Ryan (Ben) in It Chapter TwoBrooke Palmer / © Warner Bros. / courtesy Everett Collection

And then there’s Beverly, the only female member of the Losers’ Club. She was abused by her father growing up; now, she’s in an abusive marriage. When Mike calls about Pennywise’s return, though, something switches. Beverly packs a bag, ready to book the first flight to Maine. Her husband catches her in the act, accuses her of cheating, and physically assaults her. It’s clear this isn’t the first attack—but this time Beverly fights back. On her way out the door, as her husband nurses his wounds and shouts after her, she pointedly leaves her wedding ring on the front porch.

For Jessica Chastain, who plays adult Beverly, this scene was important to get right. It’s the first time we’re re-introduced to Beverly, and Chastain had to convey what might have happened to the character in the 27-year gap since we’ve last seen her.

“I had to think about Beverly’s journey, in terms of the pattern that she kept repeating,” she tells me about preparing for It Chapter Two. “In terms of what she thought love was supposed to be—that it was something that was supposed to be conflicted and difficult and painful and abusive in some sense. She didn’t really understand what love truly could be. That’s where I started with this character. Twenty-seven years of repeating the same pattern.”



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These Alternate Scene Ideas for ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Are So, So Funny


Warning: Spoilers ahead.

Big Little Lies‘ second season wrapped up on Sunday night with the Monterey Five, led by Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz), seemingly walking into the police station to turn themselves in for the roles they played in Perry Wright’s death. We also got to see Celeste (Nicole Kidman) demolish Mary Louise (Meryl Streep) on the stand and retain custody of her children, Madeline (Reese Witherspoon) and Ed (Adam Scott) renew their wedding vows, Renata (Laura Dern) expertly destroy her husband’s model trains with a baseball bat, and Jane (Shailene Woodley) finally find some happiness with her surfer boyfriend.

Fans had mixed reactions to the finale—and the season as a whole—and took to social media to express both their delight and outrage. Now a new thread on Twitter, started by writer and Keep It! podcast host Ira Madison III, has people discussing alternate events that could have happened to the BLL gang. “Now that #BigLittleLies is over what were your favorite movements [sic] this season?” he wrote. “I’m torn between Mary Louise burying Bonnie alive for killing her son and Jane’s new aquarium boyfriend turning out to be an eco-terrorist who takes her and Ziggy hostage.”

People got seriously creative in the replies. There were references to HBO’s other hit show of the year, Game of Thrones. “When it was revealed Madeline’s daughter Chloe is the Three Eyed Raven I screamed,” one user suggested. Also, people brought up the recent college admissions scandal involving wealthy parents, like Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin, buying their kids’ way into university. “When Madeline and Abigail almost get caught up in the USC admissions scandal but Chloe blabs to her teacher and ruins it,” someone tweeted.

Here are some of our other favorites:

Perhaps this is enough fodder to convince HBO that they need to do a season three.



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This ‘Big Little Lies’ Finale Courtroom Scene Should Be Required Viewing


The key word here is unfairly. Too many women have suffered like Celeste, whether it be from domestic violence, sexual assault, any sort of physical abuse, or even being asked to defend their ability to mother. It’s unfair that women are asked to endure and persist and persevere. But they are, consistently. And they do, constantly.

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Celeste has always been painted as the daintiest member of the Monterey Five—she was the demure, stylish, slender wife to the stereotypically (toxically) masculine Perry. But I won’t say she was depicted as weak, because she is not and has never been weak. She’s been beaten down, physically and metaphorically, but in the season finale we see her rise.

As Mary Louise so graciously pointed out in court, Celeste had a slew of one-night stands, a scuffle with an Ambien haze which led to a minor car accident, and was tasked with raising two grief-stricken children while attending therapy for her own trauma. And through it all, she peeled every part of herself off the ground and sculpted herself into a composed, acute lawyer. A woman capable of winning her own custody battle. Watching Celeste win her courtroom battle in the face of such anguish was nothing short of heroic.

I’m grateful for the array of female characters women have to look up to these days, but unfortunately, in real life we don’t have masked or caped superheroes zipping through our skies and saving us from evil. So I think it’s important for us to reexamine and identify who gets to be called a hero. For me, especially right now, when our very rights and livelihoods are being called into question (yet again), those heroes are women like Celeste. Strong women who have every reason to stop pushing forward, women who are justified in giving up but who exorcise every iota of strength they have left. That’s real female strength and heroism, because we’ve seen that woman IRL. We see her every day.



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Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie Shaded Leonardo DiCaprio About That Titanic Door Scene


Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie are currently making the rounds promoting their upcoming Quentin Tarantino film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But during a recent interview with MTV, the three stars weighed in on a controversial moment from DiCaprio’s past: that famous Titanic door scene.

In the almost 22 years since the film’s 1997 debut, the topic of whether or not Jack could have fit on the floating door that allowed Kate Winslet‘s Rose’s heart to go on has been hotly debated. Of course, he does not, dies, and sinks down into the ocean as Rose floats to safety. Back in 2017, Winslet told Stephen Colbert that Jack “should have tried harder to get on that door,” and it appears that Robbie agrees with this sentiment.

“Oh my God, I thought it,” she replies when interviewer Josh Horowitz, throws out the question, “Could Jack have fit on that door at the end of Titanic?” She goes on to say that she remembers “bawling her eyes out as a girl.” DiCaprio insists (with a smile) throughout the exchange that he has “no comment.” Horowitz says, “That’s telling, I think.”

“That is funny,” Pitt says. “I’m going to have to go back and look now, shoot. Certainly.” He goes on to rib DiCaprio, “Could you? Could you? Could you have squeezed in there? You could’ve, couldn’t you?” DiCaprio holds strong with another, “No comment” even as Robbie asks whether he inquired about the logistics at the time.

Watch the exchange for yourself below.

The social media replies show that time hasn’t slowed down the need for answers to this all-important question. In fact, this one interview will probably ignite the debate all over again. “It wasn’t space that was the issue, it was buoyancy. Myth Busters proved it,” one user wrote. “He could have fit on the door, There was room for two of that door,” another insisted.

The mystery lives on, I guess.



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