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THEY have been largely reluctant to discuss their relationship over the past nine months.

But recently, Jennifer Aniston felt relaxed enough to even joke about how romantic her boyfriend Justin Theroux is in a new interview.

“He’s just the most cold, icy, fishy kind of a guy,” she laughed on Good Morning America while promoting her new movie Wanderlust. “I’m trying to warm him up but you know...” The actress then agreed with interviewer Lara Spencer when she proclaimed that Theroux was ‘really cute and great in this movie.’ “He is really cute,” she said. “He is great - he’s a great actor.” The movie sees Aniston star as one half of a New York couple who find themselves living in a ‘hippie’ community after being made unemployed. While there, she meets hippies Seth (Theroux) and Eva (Malin Akerman).

However, Aniston said the romance between Theroux and her did not begin while making the film.

“Nothing happened on that movie, it’s the easy rumour,” she said. “Nothing happened, we were just friends. I have known Justin a long time.” While she claims nothing happened on set according to The Wrap, the actress asked for topless scenes to be deleted from the film, because of her new relationship.

According to the website, ‘When the film was edited with the frontal nudity in it, Aniston pleaded for an alternate version due to her blossoming relationship with Theroux, whom she met on the set of the film.’ The 43-year-old also mentioned how she valued her anonymity away from the bright lights of Los Angeles on the Georgia set of the film.

“The main thing that was so refreshing for me was being in Clarksville, Georgia,” she said. “You felt this weight lifted off your shoulders. No being on guard and looking over your shoulder - ‘Who’s that over there, who has a cell phone?’ The anonymity was regained and I loved it.” She said that if she could be invisible to the paparazzi for a day she would ‘go shopping.

I would go to movies, I would go to museums, everything you could squeeze into a day.’ The movie stars Paul Rudd, who Aniston also worked with on the sitcom Friends.

“He’s the easiest person - the most fun,” she said. “He’s so funny, sweet and exciting.

It was fun to work with him.” Along with Wanderlust, Aniston has also recently stepped behind the camera to direct a short film as part of Lifestime movie Five, an array of interconnected short films about breast cancer.

She said she would like to direct more films but joked that her agent is reluctant.

The star also shared her top style rule on the red carpet. ‘You sparkle. Don’t let the dress out sparkle you,’ said Aniston, who wore a strapless black and white geometric number to the Wanderlust premiere, although she did not pose with Theroux on the red carpet.

However, the couple were spotted sported matching gold chunky name rings on their engagement fingers, a sign of the pair’s commitment to each other.

But the couple’s pledge of love and fidelity might have been better if the rings were slimmer, and perhaps made of silver rather than the incredibly chunky gold rings they opted for.

Talking recent about her relationship with Theroux, Aniston told America’s GQ magazine, “It’s a growing like literally living thing. There’s going to be growing pains, there’s going to be awkward moments - your lanky phase, your pimpled phase. I think that’s the beauty of a relationship.” And the pair are also furthering their relationship by making the decision to adopt... a dog.

Theroux told New Yorkmagazine that he and Aniston had added to their family with a three-year-old pitbull-boxer mix called Sophie.

He said, “She’s the most adorable little cookie you’ve ever seen. She looks like she just smoked an exploding cigar!” However, the couple are generally reluctant to discuss their relationship, with Theroux, who said in an interview this week, “I understand the curiosity, but other than saying I am happy, I am not going to indulge it. That’s building your own torture device.”