Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston to star in new body swap comedy

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31 Jan 2023, 08:48

Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts

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Hollywood legends Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston will swap bodies in a new comedy movie from Max Barbakow.

According to Deadline, the new movie will see Roberts and Aniston’s characters trade lives and bodies and is the highly anticipated follow up to Barbakow’s 2020 movie Palm Springs.

Details about the plot have been largely kept quiet, but it was revealed Roberts and Aniston will serve as co-producer with Margot Robbie’s production company, Lucky Chap, also involved in the project.

Barbakow initially pitched the project two weeks ago and had a number of streaming services bidding for movie, but it was ultimately won by Amazon Studios.

Last year, Aniston received praise for opening up about her fertility problems and IVF journey during an interview with Allure.

She explained: I would say my late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard s**t, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. That’s why I have such gratitude for all those sh***y things. Otherwise, I would’ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. And now, I don’t f***ing care.

“All the years and years and years of speculation... It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favour.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”

The Friends actor added there was a lot of speculation about her not having a child in the press, which made it all the more difficult.

She said: "I just cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child. And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a kid. It was absolute lies. I don’t have anything to hide at this point.”

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