Jennifer Aniston Featured on CBS SUNDAY MORNING Today

Actress Jennifer Aniston is a favorite of the paparazzi and a staple on tabloid gossip pages, but the star of the new film "Cake" tells CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD's Lee Cowan that the best way to deal with the incessant coverage is to ignore it.

Cowan's wide-ranging interview with Aniston will be broadcast today, Jan. 4, 2015 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.

"Just don't pay attention," she tells Cowan. "I think I used to... really, there was a period where I was hell-bent on saying, 'That's not true, that's not right, that's not fair.' And now I just think you have to let it roll off your back, and you realize, I think everyone knows it's all B.S. and like soap opera on paper."

These days, Aniston is generating headlines for her work in "Cake," a film where she portrays a woman struggling with chronic pain, who is suicidal and addicted to painkillers. For Aniston, the role is a departure from the usual romantic comedies she's headlined in the past.

"This felt for me, I was really ready to, you know, just disappear and really go into the depths of a character," Aniston tells Cowan.

The part has already earned Aniston a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination. There's already buzz her work in "Cake" could be worthy of an Academy Award nomination.

"We were a little teeny, weensy movie made for four dollars and we poured our hearts into it and everyone worked so hard, so that this is happening on top of that, it's just like a huge, giant, juicy cherry on top," Aniston says.

There's also a sense of accomplishment, too, that she could prove to others she was more than a rom-com or sitcom star.

"A little part of me saying, 'I told you so?'" she asks. "Maybe a teensy one."

Aniston also talks with Cowan about working as a waitress at a burger restaurant in New York City, about the impact of her parents' divorce on her childhood, how her father, actor John Aniston, didn't want her to go into acting, and about being engaged to actor Justin Theroux.

"The main thing is to try to just keep refocusing back on what you know is true and what makes you guys happy and, you know," Aniston says.

They ignore the constant stories about them in the media, Aniston says.

"We know what our truth is," Aniston tells Cowan. "That's all just static."
CBS SUNDAY MORNING is broadcast Sundays (9:00-10:30 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Rand Morrison is the executive producer.

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