Could she be more done with cancel culture?
In a new interview with WSJ Magazine, Jennifer Aniston, 54, says she refuses to hold people who make mistakes in the same 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 in the Harvey Weinstein basket.”
The “Friends” starlet and the disgraced producer worked together on the “Derailed” movie in 2005.
Aniston is not one of the 80-plus women in the film industry who have accused Weinstein of sexual abuse, but she does admit she never looked forward to spending time with him.
“He’s not a guy, you’re like, ‘God, I can’t wait to hang out with Harvey.’ Never,” Aniston said. “You were actually like, ‘Oh, God, OK, suck it up.’”
She continued: “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.”
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 an excellent professional relationship with Jennifer Aniston on the making of ‘Derailed,’” begins the statement “From Harvey.”
“If I was 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 middle 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 did not ‘like’ this post on purpose or by accident.”
“And more importantly, I want to be clear to my friends and anyone hurt by this showing up in their feeds — I do NOT support any form of antisemitism,” she added. “And I truly don’t tolerate HATE of any kind. Period.”
At the time, Aniston did not say how her name came up as a “liker” of Foxx’s post if she didn’t deliberately or accidentally like it. It’s possible that a screenshot of the image had been doctored to include her name.
In March, Aniston spoke about the changing comedy landscape and how “there’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of ‘Friends’ and find them offensive.”
“There were things that were never intentional and others … well, we should have thought it through, but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there is now,” the actress, who portrayed Rachel Green on the hit sitcom, said about some 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 tricky because you have to be very careful, which makes it really hard for comedians, because the beauty of 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 often praised for her age-defying looks, admitted she will “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 “do not merely cherry-pick the comments as the WSJ did, but use it all.”
“I had an excellent professional relationship with Jennifer Aniston on the making of ‘Derailed,’” reads the statement “From Harvey.”
“If I was 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 close the movie down for a while so that she could handle her personal business. As the outstanding professional person that 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 somehow be thrown in suggesting something to vilify me in retrospect for their own gain,” he concluded.
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