Jennifer Aniston leaves her hotel in downtown Manhattan in late March to begin work on “The Switch.” The movie, which was then called “The Baster,” filmed in New York from March-May 2009.
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Still bundled up to brave the cold, early spring weather, Jen is photographed heading to the set again a few days later.
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In the film, shooting in Brooklyn in this photograph, Jen plays an unmarried 40-year-old woman who decides to get pregnant using a turkey baster and a sperm donor.
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Jen doesn’t look too happy about the paparazzi on the movie’s Williamsburg set. Sorry, that’s the price you pay for being one of the world’s biggest stars.
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Jen was often accompanied to and from set by this burly bodyguard (left).
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Here Jen films several takes of a scene with Jason Bateman, who plays her best friend, Wally. Wally initially objects to Jen’s character’s decision to get pregnant but ends up becoming intimately involved in the baby’s conception.
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Jason Bateman leaves the set surrounded by his real-life family: wife Amanda (left) and daughter Francesca (on his shoulders). The movie was filming in the Roundabout Theater on West 47th Street.
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Jen looks a little perturbed by all of the crowds in Manhattan as she continues filming “The Switch.”
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Jen smiles from under an umbrella as she braves the traditional April rain.
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This passionate kiss on Park Avenue is probably just for the movie. In “The Switch,” Bateman’s character has always had feelings for Jen’s character, but he thinks he missed his chance for a real relationship. Could their son bring them together?
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Jen looks contemplative as filming continues in Central Park in May. Perhaps she’s wondering if the plot will lead reporters to incessantly ask her if she’s considering having a baby using a sperm donor. After all, like her character, she is in her 40s and unmarried.
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Meanwhile, Jason Bateman shows off the baby he had the old-fashioned way: his daughter Francesca.
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