Sometimes it's hard to shed a public perception of yourself regardless of whether the persona in question is factual or fictional. Jennifer Aniston's breakthrough role as Rachel in Friends was arguably both a blessing and a curse, because when the wildly popular TV series ended its run in 2004, Aniston was inundated with film offers, practically all of which cast her in the chick flick genre as a thirty something single woman being wooed by famous Hollywood actors. Marley & Me, Along Came Polly, The Break-Up and even Bruce Almighty all cast Aniston in roles that took advantage of her resulting popularity from Friends, making her increasingly typecast as the woman that every male lead desired. Just like the relationship between her character Rachel Green and Ross Geller in Friends, Aniston was always the girl that the character had to work for, or the girl that they lost and spent the remainder of the film trying to get back. The Typecast-Breaking Roles: Aniston proved that she wasn't just a one-trick pony with films such as The Good Girl and Horrible Bosses. The former, about a bored, trapped housewife stuck in a dead-end job portrayed Aniston in a new light. One where she wasn't a glamorous, desirable woman, but one where she played an everyday employee with a deadbeat husband that was more interested in getting high than giving his wife any attention. The film eventually leads to Aniston being pursued by another man and subsequently having an affair, but the tone of The Good Girl is far removed from anything she had previously done. Likewise, Horrible Bosses cast her in the role of a sexually aggressive dental assistant that tries to extort sex out of her patient - a far cry from the status quo, Aniston even insisted on wearing a brown wig for the role, to distance herself from characters she had previously played.
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