Jennifer Aniston Had a ‘Very Similar Mom’ to Jennette McCurdy
Jennifer Aniston, who will star as a fictionalized version of Jennette McCurdy’s mother in an adaptation of her memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, can unfortunately relate to the material. “We have a lot in common,” Aniston told People. “We had very similar moms.” Despite the story hitting close to home, the executive producer is excited to work on the project, explaining why she joined the show in the first place. “When it came across my desk as an option, an offer to play this character and work with Jennette and Sharon Horgan and LuckyChap, I was pretty much immediately intrigued and flattered and excited,” Aniston explained. “It’s going to be wonderful. It’s going to be pretty great to start shooting it.”
The Friends actress had a difficult relationship with her mother, previously sharing that she didn’t think she lived up to the expectations her mother had for her. She told the Sunday Telegraph in 2019 that “I did not come out the model child she’d hoped for and it was something that really resonated with me, this little girl just wanting to be seen and wanting to be loved by a mom who was too occupied with things that didn’t quite matter.”
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