Jennifer Aniston Gets Emotional Talking About Working with Late Kris Kristofferson: 'He Was Extraordinary'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jennifer Anistonis recalling her time working with the lateKris Kristofferson, days after the beloved country singer-songwriter and actordied at 88.

During Aniston’s Wednesday, Oct. 2 appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live!, theMorning Showstar remembered that she recruited Kristofferson to costar withRobin Wrightin 2006’sRoom 10, Aniston’s first short film as a director.

“I actually was lucky enough to direct my first short film and surprisingly when we asked him he said yes, he and Robin Wright, and it was one of the most special experiences I’ve ever had,” she told hostJimmy Kimmel. As Aniston recalled, Kristofferson portrayed a man who visits his dying wife in a hospital in the final days of her life in the film.

“He broke our hearts, he was extraordinary,” Aniston said. She also noted that Kristofferson later portrayed her onscreen father in the 2009 rom-comHe’s Just Not That Into You.

Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Justin Long, Jennifer Aniston, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, Ken Kwapis, Bradley Cooper and Kris Kristofferson on Feb. 2, 2009.Kevin Winter/Getty

Kevin Winter/Getty

“He came to my 40th birthday party, his wife and he flew in,” she added. “He [was] a lovely man. It’s a huge loss.”

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Kristofferson rose to fame in the 1970s as a singer-songwriter. All the while he appeared in movies likePat Garrett & Billy The Kid(1973) andAlice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore(1974), before he earned a big break in the 1976 remake ofA Star Is Born, which costarred Barbra Streisand. He also recorded three albums with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson as The Highhwaymen in the 1980s and ’90s.

Jennifer Aniston and Kris Kristofferson.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Dustin Harris/Getty

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Dustin Harris/Getty

During Aniston’sJimmy Kimmel Liveappearance, she further remembered that when she recruited Kristofferson to act in her 2006 short film, both she and Kristofferson were equally starstruck with each other because he had grown into aFriendsfan.“When we reached out to make the call, his wife had mentioned that they had just been binge watchingFriends,” she said. “They were shooting some movie in some foreign land, and I was so excited to meet him and he’d been watchingFriendsand we had this moment. It was adorable.”

source: people.com