“I had moved away from home. I had been on six failed television shows. I waitressed for years in New York before I got anything. And I was a telemarketer selling time-shares in the Poconos. I didn’t make one sale. I was terrible at it. I was like, ‘Why do we have to call people at dinnertime?’,” she told Harpers Bazaar.
After several unsuccessful efforts in various films and series, Jennifer finally got rewarded for all the hard work.
”I’d done about seven hundred failed shows before Friends, and there was no reason to believe that Friends would be any different. Right before it aired, the director, Jimmy Burrows — or Papa, as I call him — flew the six of us to Las Vegas. He took us out to dinner and said, “You don’t know what you’re about to embark on. You better take care of each other,” Jennifer said.
Her role as Rachel was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television. Thanks to ”Friends”, Jennifer also became one of the highest-paid actresses in the world and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
And she didn’t become any less famous when it was revealed that she was dating another of Hollywood’s hottest figures – Brad Pitt.
The couple met in 1998 and married two years later. Every millimeter of their marriage was covered in the press and many saw their relationship as the ultimate love story. Continue reading…
