AlthoughJennifer Aniston‘sThe Morning Showeerily mirrorsMatt Lauer‘s fallout at theTodayshow, the actress says the upcoming series wasn’t written with him in mind.
“It’s hard for me to believe when I watch the first two episodes that this is not based on what happened to Matt Lauer on theTodayshow,” Stern said to Aniston, who replied, “No.”
“Very #MeToo. That’s Matt Lauer,” said Stern, 65.
But according to Aniston, the storyline doesn’t just mirror Lauer. “It’s a lot of people,” she said. “He is the archetype for those, unfortunately many men who were — it was more than just Matt.”
From Stern’s perspective, “Carrell looks like Matt Lauer a bit, doesn’t he?”
Aniston agreed: “There is an uncanny resemblance.”
And although Stern said that “people are going to say that” Mitch is based on Lauer, Aniston insisted, “But it’s not.”
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Aniston’s interview with Stern was recorded before Lauer was accused of rape in an excerpt fromRonan Farrow‘s upcoming bookCatch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, out Oct. 15.
On Wednesday,Varietypublished details from the book, in which Lauer’s former NBC News colleague Brooke Nevils alleges that heanally raped her in his hotel roomat the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
“In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault. It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense,” he said. “I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014,” he said. “It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.”
source: people.com
