‘Sure, I'm scared. I'm human. But some of these guerrilla critics just wanna crate some heat, stir up the pot a little bit. ‘It's just scary to have the pressure of being on “Friends” and have people just waiting, sharpening their knives. ‘You turn around and all of a sudden everybody's hating you and ripping you down and you're looking at each and going: “ What did we do?” ‘And with the movies they use words like “failed” but nobody “failed”. We've been given wonderful opportunities. As actors we've been given an opportunity to do a part and sometimes they don't work out. How many great actors have flops in their lives?' The television ‘daddy's girl' has learned much about Hollywood foibles from her famous American soap star father John Aniston. He was the one who found ‘Picture Perfect' for her. The movie is expected to boost Aniston's chances of replacing Sandra Bullock -- career floundering after the box office shipwreck of ‘Speed 2' -- as Hollywood 's screen sweetheart, the game gal who saves the day. ‘Picture Perfect' is attractive-looking but not mind-stretching romantic nonsense. Aniston is an ambitious advertising executive who needs a steady boyfriend to help her promotion chances. She manufactures a fictional fiance around a photographer she once met. Now she's unattainable, office romeo Kevin Bacon is aroused. So is the photographer who really does fall for her. Aniston thought the plot close to home:' Advertising and acting are very similar. You're out there trying to sell something and you have to sort of play the game. And you have to stumble through and make some mistakes before you realise: “You know what? I don't have to lose my integrity”. ‘ Sweeping back the wisps of hair from her face she says her father -- as well as her godfather, the late Telly “Kojak' Savalas -- gave her advice about the perils of acting and Hollywood: ‘ He tried to talk me out of it. He gave me all the usual reasons about rejection and competition and lack of steady income. He did it in such a way that it was almost like making sure I did become an actress. ‘From him I learned to be wary; to be very aware of every move that's made and the deals going on around you. ‘He made it clear that not everyone is going to be nice. ‘As I say, it's like advertising. Everything isn't what it seems and there's all this deception based on image. ‘How do you maintain your integrity in this kind of world? How do you stay true to yourself?' Part of it , she says, is remaining ‘Friends'. With ‘Picture Perfect' about to be released in cinemas worldwide she finished filming ‘Object of my Affection' ( she's pregnant and in love with her gay male flat mate) in a sweltering New York last month (July, 1997). Immediately, she returned here to start work on ‘Friends' and said:' I think I would be crazy to leave. ‘I get so much fun from the job. It's so fulfilling and we have this strong bond between us. ‘We've had intense experiences together. We've had heartaches together. ‘We've been through too much for it just to end before it's time. ‘And it either goes on with all of us or none of us. ‘There's none of this thing of....”Well if one or two of you leave we can go on without you”. No way is it that. ‘We all do it -- or nobody does it.' Adamant about that she's reluctant to detail the future of the cliffhanger romance beween Rachel whose moods swing like a rotten golfer and David Schwimmer's Ross:' I really don't know what will happen...' She is also hesitant about discussing co-star Matthew Perry's drug problems. He left a clinic last month (July) after treating for an addiction to prescription painkillers and she said:' He's doing great. Really great. But it's not my place to talk about him.' But the nice girl will talk about her own private life. Interest in Aniston is no intense that there are daily reports in America about her relationship with actor Tate Donovan -- he's the voice of ‘Hercules' in this year's animated Disney hit -- and its' future. ‘Tate is a wonderful, warm guy -- he's one of the goods ones. We're not getting married -- not that I know about. ‘But the newspapers have already had us married and broken-up and me dating a wrestler....' For a good girl wanting to be a bad girl easier, of course, to eradicate than a tattoo.
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