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Before she was “Friends” mainstay Rachel Green, Jennifer Aniston had a crack at being a Not Ready For Prime Time Player.<\/p>\n
Aniston turned down a role on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” in the 1990s, shortly before she was cast in “Friends,” the sitcom that would make her a worldwide household name. She told the story during\u00a0a recent episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert<\/a>” podcast, relating how \u2014 despite having only a handful of credits on unsuccessful TV series at the time \u2014 she made a principled call to say no to “SNL” producer Lorne Michaels.<\/p>\n At the time, Aniston’s friend Adam Sandler was already a part of the “SNL” cast, but she wasn’t keen to join him based on what she had heard of the show’s behind-the-scenes culture.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Jennifer Aniston called SNL a boys’ club<\/p>\n
NBC<\/p>\n “I always thought I was such hot s***,” Jennifer Aniston explained. “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.'” The actress said she recalled thinking “SNL” was “very male-dominated” at the time.<\/p>\n Speaking about the same meeting with Michaels to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>\u00a0in 2021, Aniston elaborated, “I was so young and dumb, and I went into Lorne’s office and I was like, ‘I hear women are not respected on this show.’ I don’t remember exactly what I said next, but it was something like, ‘I would prefer if it were like the days of Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin.’ I mean, it was such a boys’ club back then, but who the f*** was I to be saying this to Lorne Michaels?!”<\/p>\n
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