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Aniston Looks Forward Past 'Friends'

Posted on: Thursday, 19 February 2004, 06:00 CST

Jennifer Aniston says she's looking forward to leaving "Friends" character Rachel Green behind after a decade on the hit NBC sitcom.

Aniston, in London Wednesday to promote her new romantic comedy, "Along Came Polly," said she'll always be grateful for the character that made her famous, but she wants to focus on big-screen roles.

"I loved `Friends' so much, and I don't know how you would follow that act (on television)," she said. "No one can say, `I would never go back to that, ever.' But for now, I feel like I've done it."

The final episode of "Friends" is due to be aired in May.

Aniston, 35, said she'd like to do more films such as 2002's "The Good Girl," in which she played against type as a frumpy and miserable small-town store clerk.

"It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only," she said at a news conference. But, she added: "I think there are opportunities for women in comedy. I've had some good luck over the last few years, in spite of the television thing."

NBC has announced that Matt LeBlanc will star in a spinoff series, but Aniston said she has no plans to revisit Rachel - and hopes her fans will let her move on.

"This part I've done for 10 years is going to be hard to get out of people's minds," she said. "I'm just going to try to do my job as good as I can and hope it goes away."

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