Jennifer Aniston revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Reside that she won’t be attending the 2021 Emmys on Sunday, citing her private security because the pandemic continues.
As a part of HBO Max’s Pals reunion, she’s nominated within the selection particular (pre-recorded) class alongside Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and different producers.
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“No, I can’t be going,” she informed Jimmy Kimmel on Monday evening, including that producer and director Ben Winston will attend and settle for on her behalf, if the Pals reunion wins. “This can be a massive step for me to simply be right here. Simply child steps.”
She informed Kimmel that she’s been staying house so much, whereas additionally safely filming Season 2 of Apple TV Plus’ The Morning Present, doing press and visiting her associates Courteney Cox and Jason Bateman. “We had this little bubble of associates — thank God, I like all of you a lot — however yeah, it was arduous. Bizarre occasions,” she mentioned.
After going digital in 2020, the TV Academy is taking security precautions and reducing down the variety of friends at this 12 months’s in-person ceremony. The present is restricted to round 600 attendees, which means that every manufacturing nominated solely will get a handful of invitations. The open-air occasion will happen in a high-end tent on the L.A. Reside deck, subsequent to the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Proof of vaccination and a damaging COVID-19 check end result are additionally required for every individual attending.
Aniston helped Kimmel hand out the primary award eventually 12 months’s digital Emmys, and extinguished a rubbish bin fireplace within the course of when a skit that concerned burning the winner’s envelope went incorrect.
The Pals reunion was additionally nominated for manufacturing design, directing and lighting design/lighting course for a spread particular, which had been introduced final weekend on the Inventive Arts Emmys. Within the selection particular (pre-recorded) race, it can face off in opposition to Bo Burnham’s Inside, Disney Plus’ Hamilton, Dave Chappelle’s 8:46 efficiency, HBO and David Byrne’s American Utopia, and the West Wing reunion and voting particular on HBO Max.
Reps for Aniston declined to remark additional.
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