Rashida Jones filtered her own relationship history — and a few heart-wrenching break-ups — into this weekend's Celeste and Jesse Forever, an L.A.-set look at one couple's struggle to remain besties through separation, divorce, and the complicated disentanglement that follows the world's best-worst break-up.
Co-written with fellow actor Will McCormack, whom Jones dated for three weeks years ago, the sweet, affecting dramedy is peppered with moments inspired by real life events that carry Celeste through her journey of painful but necessary self-discovery — including one legendarily awful date with a guy who turned out to be, in Jones' words, "a serial masturbator."
Like Celeste, Jones, who looks back on her past relationships as life lessons, has learned the hard way that not all love stories are meant to last. "I?m no better at break-ups," she admits. "I haven?t gotten any stronger, I just try to learn my lesson in a way where I don?t have to re-learn it, and that?s the only thing I can do," she says.
As I was watching, I realized these are revelations you can only really have by experiencing them firsthand.
Yeah, totally. Will always says, ?The cure for the pain is the pain." I hate when he says that, but I definitely feel like it?s the first step in real adulthood, when you?re like, ?Oh, things are not going to be the way I thought they would.? In some ways they?re going to be better, and in some ways they?re going to be way worse. But regardless, I have no control over it, and my need to control it only makes it worse. It definitely came from a real place. It?s a very personal story for me, and hopefully it?s the kind of thing I can leave in the movie and…
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