Here's more about that same day.
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ny-lijenn2212989746jul21,0,7553968.story
(and a couple of pics here: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-jenniferaniston-photos,0,7056629.photogallery)
Jennifer Aniston gives a wave, but co-star steals the show
BY MARISSA BHOLAN | marissa.bholan@newsday.com
12:53 PM EDT, July 21, 2009
He signed autographs, posed for pictures, even chatted it up with a fan on a cell phone.
She briefly smiled and waved before slipping away.
Gerard Butler, the Scottish actor, and Jennifer Aniston, the mega-superstar actress, had two different responses to fawning fans Monday after the pair shot a movie scene for their romantic comedy on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
"He was polite enough to sign for whoever he could," said Mike Struck, 34, of Levittown, who stopped by the neighborhood to catch Aniston. "She didn't really want to be bothered."
Butler and Aniston were in Seaford to shoot a scene in the Columbia Pictures production "The Bounty Hunter."
The scene involved Butler, who plays the bounty hunter, driving a car with Aniston, his ex-wife, in the trunk. At the end of the scene, the car starts smoking and Aniston is released.
After the scene was shot, Aniston finally stepped out of her trailer around 7:30 p.m., fans said.
"She said hello, waved at the crowd, jumped back into her Suburban and left the scene completely," said Christopher Labarbera, 34, of Seaford, who also was there to see Aniston. "She didn't really interact with the crowd."
Aniston's rumored lover, but definite co-star, Butler walked up and down Seamans Neck Court, smiling and waving.
He stopped at a street corner directly across from the entrance to Route 135 to sign autographs and take pictures while cracking jokes with the crowd, Struck said.
Michelle Calderon, a resident of Seamans Neck Court, said she was thrilled to see Aniston make something of an appearance - even if she didn't stop to take pictures.
But it was Butler who engaged the fans.
After the shoot ended, Calderon, 19, and her father walked over to Butler's trailer. Calderon gave Butler her cell phone, where her anxious friend waited on the other line, she said.
"He said, 'Hey, what's up?' and my friend said, 'I'm a big fan of yours!' and he responded with 'I'm a big fan of yours, too,' " Calderon said. "He's such a nice, chill guy."