James McAvoy recalls his first meeting with celebrity crush Jennifer Aniston: ‘It was rough, but she was lovely’ |

James McAvoy recently opened up about meeting his celebrity crush Jennifer Aniston for the first time. The ‘Split’ actor reminisced that meeting the ‘Friends’ star ‘wasn’t great’, not because of Jennifer Aniston, but because of something else.
James McAvoy recently appeared on the Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen show, and spoke about meeting Jennifer Aniston, when he first moved to Los Angeles.
The conversation began when McAvoy was asked about his childhood celebrity crush. Confessing that Jennifer Aniston is his childhood crush, McAvoy revealed that he met her when he was 22. He was at a party in LA, and met Lucy Liu, who introduced him to her friends, which includes Jennifer Anniston.
“She was like, ‘Come meet my friends.’ There was a big circle of her friends and one of them happened to be Jennifer Aniston, and I got parked right beside Jennifer Aniston. And just as [Liu] was like, ‘Hey guys, meet my new friend James’ … instead of saying that, she got pulled aside by a guy she went to high school with and she went away. I was just left standing with all these people going, ‘Hey, what’s up, I’m new in town,” he recalled.

James McAvoy added that the conversation went more awkward, when he said, “So you’re Jennifer Aniston and you’re in Friends.” The actor recalled that the encounter was ‘rough’, however, Jennifer Aniston was lovely.