You don't normally expect nuggets of gnomic wisdom from Jennifer Aniston. I'm not trying to be mean here. She's a fine actress, she seems like a nice lady, she appears to be very smart and capable. But it's just not her working persona.
Still, she's shrewdly, perceptively, depressingly right about this, right?
Jennifer Aniston briefly lamented on Hollywood's fading glamour during a recent Allure magazine cover story. The writer of the piece read a text aloud to Aniston in which a friend wrote the following about the "Friends" superstar: "No one's ever going to be famous the way she is. That kind of mass-fame phenomenon burning so bright for so long, it's just not achievable today. She's like a silent-film star among a generation of TikTok [expletives]."
"Whoa. Oh, that just gave me chills," Aniston responded. "I'm a little choked up. I feel like it's dying. There are no more movie stars. There's no more glamour. Even the Oscar parties used to be so fun."
"There are no more movie stars." That's pretty accurate, right? Compared to earlier generations of Hollywood, the roster of top-tier talent just isn't what it used to be. Movie stars just aren't really part of the scene any more, are they?
I mean, think back to the years of, say, 1980-1999 or so. An absolute A-list of completely bankable, dazzling, once-in-a-generation talent was churning out excellent movies year after year: Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Sally Field, Jodi Foster, Michael J. Fox...the list goes on and on.
Many of these stars are still with us and still sometimes making decent movies. But they're sort of lost their luster; they've been around for decades and that's just how it is. Still others are too ill to work, or have retired.
And a similar crop of star power isn't really rising up to take their place, is it? It's just not the same. We have some decent actors today, a handful of really good ones. But not like it used to be. "There's no more glamour." Something has changed.
