Justin Theroux and fiancée Jennifer Aniston have remained mum about their upcoming nuptials but the “Leftovers” star says the actress changed his life.
“My life changed a lot,” Theroux, 42, said in an interview in the August issue of Elle. “More people are like, ‘Hey, man!’ And I don’t think that’s from my role in ‘John Adams.'”
While the attention wasn’t something the actor was used to, he’s learned to live with it.
“But it only changed as much as I engaged with it, and I learned very quickly: Don’t ever engage with it,” he continued. “Just JKL. It was a learning curve, but it wasn’t as traumatic as you might expect. It’s just annoying. Occasionally you’ll get a stewardess congratulating you, on, I don’t know, whatever, some three-headed baby we just had.”
Something that does bother Theroux, who’s also a writer, are the over-the-top stories about him and the former “Friends” star, 45.
“I can’t get over how terrible the narrative is, just how poorly written it is,” he said. “It’s worse than a telenovela. It’s so dramatic. Like, ‘They’re broken up, they’re together, they’re storming out, storming in, rushing out, rushing in.’ They make every celebrity look like a schizophrenic.”
Theroux began dating Aniston, who recently gushed about her fiancé’s eyeballs, in 2011 and the couple were engaged a year later.