Hollywood actor Vince Vaughn still speaks to ex-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston despite their break-up, the actor says.
The 37-year-old funny-man reveals that he is still on good terms with his former lover, saying: “I have such a great friendship with Jennifer.
“Really. I still talk to her constantly. I have a real genuine connection with Jen.
“And I have a real appreciation of her that continues to this day.”
Vaughn was talking about Aniston in an intimate chat with the latest issue of US magazine, Parade.
The actors starred opposite each other in The Break-Up – a comedy about the end of a couple’s relationship.
Aniston, 38, started dating Vaughn following her divorce from Brad Pitt.
Vince says: “In regular life, people date, and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t.
“We get more attention because we’re more known. I always try to keep my relationships quiet and my work at the forefront.
“I haven’t been someone to go and talk about those things because that’s not what I want to be known for.”
It’s a mature take on relationships for a man who openly admits he is still quite boyish in his outlook on life.
Listed among his pet hates are dressing up, wearing a watch and owning a mobile phone – all trappings of modern adult life.
Vaughn says: “I still dress, unfortunately, like I’m 12.
“When I was a kid, I’d hate it when school started because you’d have to go with your mum to the mall to get all your new clothes.
“I never liked that. To this day, when I do wardrobe sessions for films, I can get tired very quickly.
“I’ve never worn a watch. I don’t own a cell phone. When I had one, it always gave me a feeling of: ‘Uh-oh, someone’s calling me’.
“I like the times, like driving in the car, where I can just get quiet and reflect.
“If I’m out in public, and I need to call someone, I will borrow my friends’ phones.
“They’re like: ‘Mr Cool Guy doesn’t want his own phone but he’ll use ours’. I’m just trying to feel like I have a little sanity, with all that goes on.”
Vaughn says that his boyish charm hasn’t harmed him in the slightest so he is not offended when people tell him to grow up. He says: “Well, it hasn’t hurt my relationships.
“I’ve been fortunate that the women I’ve dated seriously get used to it because I think I’m attentive and aware in other ways. So it’s not a big deal.
“With relationships, for me, the biggest foundation always is that you can laugh with each other, that you have fun with each other, because life really is made up of all the little moments.
“Of course, I also got better at communicating.”
As childlike as he is the actor insists he can still keep things in perspective and, as such, seems untainted by some aspects of the Hollywood lifestyle. Vaughn says: “My grandfather got up at four in the morning to work the farm and had a second job to pay the bills.”
Vince’s father also worked hard and helped fund his way through university. “He was the first generation off the farm [to go to college],” Vaughn says. “My mum worked back when no one else’s mum really worked. She still took care of us.
“They didn’t give us a lot of stuff. They taught us: ‘You work hard and you tell the truth’.
“I was told that someone can make a lot of money but if they’re not honest or if they hurt people that’s not being a man or a woman.”
Family obviously means a lot to the Chicago-native, who says: “My two older sisters and I were raised so tight.
“When we were younger, we fought like crazy. But if someone else tried to hurt me, they would be protective.”
Vaughn, who moved to Hollywood from Chicago when he was 18, is also level headed when it comes to star treatment. He admits it sometimes makes him feel guilty and he questions the significance of his profession in the world.
“I’ve had those moments,” he says. “I remember being on the set of Wedding Crashers and I turned on the television.
“The story broke that former NFL [American football] player Pat Tillman had died [serving in Afghanistan].
“Something in that moment really moved me. He had walked away from his career for a higher purpose, for a sense of calling.
“I remember thinking: ‘God, there are people going to war and I’m getting makeup put on my face’.
“I just sort of felt like: ‘What are you doing, Vince?”
Behind the scenes – away from the glare of flashing bulbs and movie cameras – Vaughn apparently is doing his bit in his own quiet way.
“I’ve been over to Iraq twice,” he says, “and I’ve been to Afghanistan once.
“But I didn’t want a lot of publicity or to make a big deal out of it. I was raised that it’s good to do charity, but you don’t talk about it publicly. You do it for the sake of doing it.”
Despite the sober subject, Vaughn is not necessarily ready to grow up. He says:”I’ve reflected on that and, of course part of background is knowing that if you work hard and you do right, you get to play hard.
“I do still feel like I’m 20 sometimes. And, sadly, I probably am in certain areas. I play make-believe all day.
“What we do is very childlike. As you get older, you just get more used to being this way. It gets harder to be open to that switch of having a family and kids and that kind of stuff.
“I don’t mind responsibility. I’ve been in love and loved people. I don’t run away from that, but I’ve never been to the point where I’ve felt like: ‘Wow, this makes sense’.
“It’s funny. I look at some of the people I was with when I was in my 20s and now I go: ‘Boy, did I over-think it? Did I over-question it?’
“But it is difficult to maintain a relationship when you are off making a movie for three months.
“There’s no consistency. There’s no – what’s the word I’m looking for? Routine.
“There’s not a routine to fall into, which becomes difficult – especially if a routine is not what you’re sure you want.”
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