Jennifer Aniston Takes Flight In Camilla Akrans Images For Harper's Bazaar US April 2016

Actor and super celebrity Jennifer Aniston covers the April issue of Harper's Bazaar US, styled by Julia von Boehm in Versus Versace, Anthony Vaccarello, Alexander McQueen, Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane, Tiffany & Co, Cartier and more. Photographer Camilla Akrans captures the megastar in Jennifer Aniston Takes Flight with an interview by Laura Brown.

Aniston loves to be at home, and the sentiment extends to her work: These days, she will work only on projects that make it worth leaving. "I really have to love something to be leaving my home, my dogs, my husband. The older you get, the more you realize that." She is providing her easy gleam to this month's lady-ensemble comedy, Mother's Day (alongside Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson, and a legion of other Hollywood smilers), but the future will see her in more ambitious, testing fare. Of her career, she observes, "There's a steadiness, for sure, but also this desire to peel away more. You know, like 'Fuck it.' " She laughs. "What's a more graceful term?" Following her feted performance as a chronic-pain sufferer in 2014's Cake, Aniston has just finished shooting The Yellow Birds, an Iraq War drama in which she plays the mother of a troubled young soldier. As with Cake, she is also a producer on the film.

The great triumph of Cake was reinforcing what Aniston had teased at all along: "I can do other things. I feel a sense of freedom that I hadn't necessarily felt before. Also, you have to start taking chances in an industry that's very insecure about taking chances on people." Especially when you've become, as Aniston has, a megabrand. "People forget who actors are. They say, 'You're too known to play that part. You can't disappear.' And we're like, 'Give us a chance. We'll disappear.'"