Jennifer Aniston faces his past in a brave new role

Jennifer Aniston I get into one of the most emotionally charged roles in her career.

The actress is ready to play a sophisticated mother in the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation Jennette McCurdyThe best -selling memoir: “I’m glad my mom died.”

However, the part is more than just character. It also repeats Aniston’s turbulent childhood and a tense relationship with her late mother Nancy Dow.

The book describes how Debra before her death in 2013 was an unhealthy control over her daughter’s life and career.

It is a role that deeply resonates with aniston, whose relationship with the mother was marked by conflict and alienation.

“This is a very cruel role to tell Jen to tell you,” a source told Everyday mail According to news of her casting. “She loved Genet’s story and is very fascinated with reviving it. Of course, the book is a topic that Jen and many other difficult mothers’ daughters can associate with.”

Anistona also acts as a CEO in the series, continuing her creative partnership with Apple TV+, where she is currently the star is “The Morning Show” alongside Reese Witherspoon.

Jennifer Aniston has spoken publicly over the years about the emotionally difficult relationship she shared with her late mother Nancy Dow, who died in May 2016 at the age of 79.

They were both alienated for years, as reported that it had been reconciled just a week before Dow’s death, after the actress visited her for a final visit to her state of health.

“With great sadness, my brother John and I announce the departure of our mother Nancy Dowa,” Aniston said in a statement People magazine at that time. “She was 79, and family and friends went quietly after a long -term illness. We ask our family’s privacy to be upset.”

Despite the solemn tone, the years leading to Dow’s departure were something other than a peaceful star “friends”.

2015 in an annual interview with Hollywood reporterAniston revealed how growing up with mother left deep emotional scars.

“Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning,” she recalled. “I wasn’t. I was never. I honestly still don’t think about myself in this kind of light that is fine.”

“She was also very unforgivable,” Aniston continued. “She would hold the cries that I just found so tiny.”

The tension between the mother and the daughter ran so deep that Aniston chose not to invite Dow to the 2015 wedding to actor Justin Terouls.

It was not a sign of the only distance between the two women. Dov published a book entitled “From Mother and Daughter to Friends: Memoirs” in 1999, which reportedly had extensive personal details of their broken bond, without aniston’s blessing.

Dow has become more painful in recent years. After a week in contact, Aniston on May 12, 2016, the visit was their first reunion in more than four years, caused by Dow several strokes that allowed her not to talk or walk.

“Jen had to be a wake -up bell and wanted to see her mother for the last time before she passed by,” a source told Outlet.

Dow eventually left Aniston from her completely, according to reports published two months after her death.