A Trip on the Couch With Jennifer Aniston

Gal pals Catherine Keener and Jennifer Aniston, at the premiere of "Friends With Money," later ran the conversational gamut. (By Evan Agostini -- Getty Images)

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We three pause and think about that.

Keener: Our resistance is amazing. How do you recover from the death of a loved one? Losing your home? The hurricane . . . everything.

Aniston: And their wives and their children and their animals.

Keener: The people with their dogs on the roof?

Aniston: Who wouldn't leave without them?

Reporter: Throw down the kibble. I'm not leaving without my dog.

Aniston waves a hand in front of her face and squints. She is going to cry. Her eyes well. It's that damn dog on the roof. In her September Vanity Fair profile, Aniston talks through her divorce from Brad Pitt, his romance with Angelina Jolie and how she was comforted by her circle of friends -- and her loyal corgi-terrier, Norman.

We're saved by the wait staff (for the second time) offering beverages.

Reporter: We could all probably use a drink about right now.

The girls look tempted, but pass. The conversation circles back to the movie. Keener asks reporter's opinion. Reporter demurs, he is no critic, but confesses two things bothered him. In one scene, Keener's husband in the movie, played by Jason Isaacs, complains that she has a big butt.

Reporter: I didn't buy it.

Keener: Because I don't.

Reporter: Exactly.

Keener: But can I tell you something? There are times when a woman with my ass feels like it is too big. Which is absurd.

Aniston: No question about it.

Keener: But I too have said, 'Does my ass look big in these?'

Aniston: Me, too.

Reporter, unsure how to navigate these dangerous shoals, freezes.

Keener: So this was a way to get at me in the film. We've all been in those relationships, where someone knows your button and is mean.

Aniston: Yeah.

Keener asks what else the reporter doesn't buy in the film.

Reporter: I didn't believe Jennifer would be stalking a married man.