In an alternate universe, Jennifer Aniston could have been a cast member on Saturday Night Live instead of starring on Friends and she’s looking back on her decision to turn down the job.
The 56-year-old actress opened up about turning down SNL while chatting with friend Dax Shepard on the Armchair Expert podcast.
“I always thought I was such hot s—. The story of that is all very confusing,” Jennifer began.
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“Honestly, today I’d have to ask Lorne, because I remember, I was in New York City, and I had a meeting with Lorne Michaels, and I ran into [Adam] Sandler and [David] Spade in the room right outside. And I knew Sandler forever,” she added (via People).
Jennifer knew Adam even before she was on Friends because “he was very good friends with Charlie Schlatter, who played Ferris Bueller in the television version of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. So we met at Jerry’s Deli in like 1912.”
Jennifer appeared in the short-lived TV series from 1990-1991.
It was Jennifer‘s belief that SNL was a male-dominated environment that turned her off from the show.
“I don’t know why I had this self-righteous attitude of ‘I don’t know if women are treated the way they should be treated on this show.’ It’s a very male-dominated [show,] I would love to be here if it was in the Gilda Radner day,” she said. “I mean, this is the brain that semi-remembers things that are back that far. Something like that. I can’t remember, but I just remember Friends then happened.”
In the same interview, Jennifer explained why she never adopted children.