Jennifer Aniston says her good friend and fellow actress Nicole Kidman has helped her through a lot, both on and off sets.
While chatting with The Hollywood Reporter alongside Kidman, Jodie Foster, Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Ana Sawai, and Sofía Vergara. Aniston spoke about how Kidman’s presence on the set of their 2011 comedy Just Go With It was both helpful and necessary.
After Larson said she makes a point to make friends with other actresses, Jennifer Aniston stated, “It’s so true. And not even having to do with the work, but just life. When we did that movie in Hawaii, you helped me out on a lot of hard things that I was going through. Just to have that community, it’s very helpful.”
Aniston and Kidman both appeared in Just Go With It with Adam Sandler. The Friends alum continued to say that Kidman has been a “guiding force” for her.
“Not to date us, but it’s a 40-year friendship,” she pointed out.
Jennifer Anister Once Recalled Being ‘Completely Starstruck’ When She First Met Nicole Kidman
During a 2011 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Jennifer Aniston admitted to being “completely starstruck” when she first met Nicole Kidman.
“I loved her immediately,” Aniston gushed. “I remember meeting this tall, beautiful woman who was there with her mom and dad. I was completely starstruck, while she was nothing but gracious. Nicole had just seen one of my rom-coms, as they call them, and was instantly kind and complimentary. I loved her immediately. We’ve run into each other over the years, keeping in touch.”
Aniston did give Adam Sandler some credit for uniting them on the set of Just Go With It. “But it was Adam Sandler, of all people, who brought us together in Hawaii to film the comedy Just Go With It. Now not only do I have a dear friend, I can’t see myself dancing the hula with any other gal.”
She also recalled Keith Urban also had the same reaction when he first met Kidman. “When you two first met, Keith said he saw you walk into a room and you just floated. Yes, I watched him on Oprah!”
Kidman replied, “I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, if you ever gave me a man like that, I promise I would be completely devoted for the rest of my life.’ Something that wild. I remember praying after I met him that I’d meet somebody, if not him, like him.”
Kidman then turned her attention to Aniston. “You are a freak of nature. You have the best body I’ve ever seen. And I’m a heterosexual girl. You look good morning, noon, and night.”