We’re The Millers: 5 Questions With Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis

*Updated December 2025

Comedies have fared slightly okay in 2013 with This Is the End and The World’s End, arguably, being the best halfway through the year. Director Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball) gives us We’re the Millers, a typical Hollywood comedy with enough R rated laughs to allow a recommendation.

We’re the Millers plot

The story has David Clark (Jason Sudeikis), a small time pot dealer who, after losing his stash and cash to a trio of gutter punks, becomes indebted to his supplier, Brad (Ed Helms). In order to repay him, David must turn into a big time drug smuggler and bring Brad’s latest shipment from Mexico. To accomplish the task, David will need the help of his neighbors, cynical stripper Rose (Jennifer Aniston) and wannabe customer Kenny (Will Poulter), as well as streetwise teen Casey (Emma Roberts). After one fake wife, two pretend kids, and one shiny RV, the Millers finally got the vacation they deserved.

Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, and director Rawson Marshall Thurber were in New York City and I had a chance to speak with them about the film, which ultimately boils down to a very funny and enjoyable interview.

An interview with the stars of We’re the Millers

ShowBizCafe: Jennifer, you look so amazing in this movie. Can you give us some tips and secrets and tell us how you overcame the challenge of doing the stripper scene?

Jennifer Aniston: No secrets and not a few tips, there is not enough time for that answer. It was really just an amazing choreographer, a wonderful trainer, and a beautiful cinematographer, but I did work out a lot. There were a lot of celery sticks, salads, and cucumbers. They did let me eat ice chips, she laughs.

[And the stripper scene] I just had to do it. They rolled the cameras and I just had to bite the bullet. It was a little bit uncomfortable at first, but then you get used to it. At first, you’re doing all the rehearsals alone, and then all of a sudden you are on set with three cameras and a bunch of crew [members]. It was a little intimidating at first.

ShowBizCafe: Jennifer and Jason, the timing between you two is amazing, can you talk about your relationship doing this? Was there a lot of improvisation as you were doing this?

Jason Sudeikis: Well, we’ve worked together in the past, but then Jen she’s worked with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, every major [male] comedy star, and she’s made them look good, I just stood there and looked pretty. I think it was a refreshing change of pace for you [Jen]?

JA: It was so refreshing. But, no there wasn’t a lot of improv, we stuck to the script.

JS: Absolutely. Maybe some of the script stuff was spoken about with whoever was in the scene a day prior or the day of, but for the most part, it was all there. Specifically, the scenarios, whether the actual words were different I can’t remember.