Overview

• Aniston shared in a Vanity Fair career-retrospective video that she battled Warner Bros. to let her don a brunette wig in her 2011 comedy Horrible Bosses.
• The studio had argued that she should keep her blonde hair out of fear that audiences would not recognize her without it.
• She said the wig was crucial for fully inhabiting Dr. Julia Harris, a sexually aggressive dentist far removed from her familiar “girl next door” persona.
• Horrible Bosses earned just over $200 million worldwide and led to a 2014 sequel in which Aniston again wore the brunette wig.
• Her insistence on the look underscores a broader career shift toward edgier, R-rated comedies beyond her romantic-comedy background.