Jennifer Aniston, hot off a SAG Awards win, thinks she waited too long to play a superhero. And this isn’t the first time Aniston has hinted at wanting in on the superhero game.
According to MovieWeb, Jennifer Aniston spoke with the press after her SAG win for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (The Morning Show) about career goals. “I wanted to be Wonder Woman, but I waited too long,” Aniston said to the press. The former Friends star is hinting that being 50 may mean she’s too old for her to get into the genre game.
If that’s the case, it makes her comments late last year about Marvel movies make more sense. On returning to TV, she told Variety:
"“It wasn’t until the last couple of years when these streaming services were just sort of exploding with this amount of quality that I actually started to think, “Wow, that’s better than what I just did.” And then you’re seeing what’s available out there and it’s just diminishing and diminishing in terms of, it’s big Marvel movies. Or things that I’m not just asked to do or really that interested in living in a green screen.”"
That sounds like someone who has admitted defeat. It was just two years prior, while on Chelsea, that Aniston said she “would be psyched” if she was offered a superhero role. She continues to joke about her limits, which hints at the start of her defeat of playing a superhero. At one point, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter in 2014, she wanted that superhero role, saying “I really do want to be a superhero, too. I’ve said it!”
And while Gal Gadot is our current Wonder Woman, there is room for Aniston to join the superhero ranks. Robert Downey Jr. played Iron Man into his 50s, Mark Ruffalo may appear again as Hulk in his 50s, and her former Friends castmate, Paul Rudd—who recently turned 50—will once again portray Ant-Man in the currently in-development, third Ant-Man movie.