‘Drill, baby, drill” takes on a whole new meaning in Horrible Bosses, thanks to Jennifer Aniston’s lewd, crude turn as a sexually-voracious dentist. At a press conference promoting the comedy, Aniston—sleek and glowing in a Calvin Klein top, Tom Ford skirt and Michael Kors shoes—laughed off any questions about taking on the role to tamper with her all-American image.

“I just took it because I loved it and I thought it would be a fun challenge and fun for me to step out of what people usually like to see me play,” she says.

She had no qualms about some of her more colorful lines. “The raunchier the better. It was pretty easy,” says Aniston.

Aniston, 42, has been back in the tabs thanks to her romance with actor/writer Justin Theroux. She told the appreciative crowd of reporters that she feels sexy and confident in her own skin.

“At the age of 60, I’m doing pretty good,” quips Aniston. “I absolutely get more comfortable in my body as I get older, way more than when I was in my 20s. I was so awkward and uncomfortable.”

Her Julia Harris has brown hair—by design, says Aniston, even though the studio was worried about her going dark. “I knew I wanted her to look different. I wanted her to have dark hair. I felt such freedom. That was really fun,” she says.

And since she plays a pretty horrific boss, what was the most challenging gig she’d ever had? “The toughest job I ever had was being a bike messenger in New York City. Yeah. I was 19,” she says.

“Extraordinarily klutzy. I was very uncoordinated. I should have never been allowed on a bicycle.” A large number of questions were directed at Aniston, who sat flanked by her co-stars Charlie Day, Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis. Mostly, she charmed the audience by saying a lot without saying very much. “You don’t want to play it safe all the time. I’ve never had a script come to me that allowed me to go into this direction. It was a great opportunity,” she says.

Below are excerpts from the press conference.

Jennifer, one of the stunning aspects of Horrible Bosses is your character’s outrageousness.  Do you think there’s a shift in comedy toward gorgeous women saying really naughty things?

Jennifer Aniston: I’m not going to answer that. (Laughs) I know I had no hesitation to answer that part of your question at all. 

Jason Sudeikis: She made them dirtier. (Laughs)

Aniston: I did. 

Michael Markowitz (screenwriter): I can say that when we wrote the script—and now the truth can be told—I always had actors in mind. 

Aniston: You had actors in mind?

Markowitz: Yes, I did, and Jason Bateman and yourself were the actors I had in mind for those parts.  I never knew whether it would be rude to tell you that I thought of you for that part, but...(Laughs)

Aniston: Are you kidding?  It’s a compliment.

Markowitz: I knew you could do it. And then I broke my leg and I was watching DVDs. I watched Friends start-to-finish and said, “Oh, well, she’d be great at this.” So, I always knew Ms. Aniston could do it.  

Jennifer, did you work with director Seth Gordon to develop the character and how much did he encourage you to use your potty-mouth?

Aniston: It wasn’t really encouraged.  It was on the page, so I was just doing my job.  But there was nothing that happened that he wasn’t just getting, I think, so tickled and excited about.  After every take, he would just be like, “The raunchier, the better.”  So, it was pretty easy.  It really was.  

Seth Gordon: I was cackling between every take, especially all the stuff in the dentist’s office, just all the nuances of the foul mouth.  I just loved it.  There was always a little wheeze and a cackle you can hear on some of the takes. 

Aniston: You don’t want to play it safe all the time.  And I’ve never had a script come to me that allowed me to go into this direction.  So, it was a great opportunity.  I really thought it would just be fun for everybody. I would hope.

Jennifer, can you talk a little about satirizing male sexist behavior when it is seen in a female?

Aniston: That’s what I think was so fun about the part, sort of being a female that is usually the male character.  I thought of her as just like a guy and that’s what made it that much more fun. 

Charlie, please tell me that the photo shoot you did with Miss Aniston actually happened and wasn’t photo-shopped. 

Charlie Day: Yeah, that was an actual photo shoot.  We took those photos together and we got to know each other. 

Aniston: We were together.

Day: We had a nice little private session and took some photos.  I’ve never been more embarrassed about my body in my life than standing next to this woman.  But I’ve since started to see a trainer....

Jennifer, were you sort of one of the guys?  And what was the atmosphere like behind the scenes on this movie?

Aniston: I just kept apologizing to Charlie for everything that had just happened.  I wasn’t with the guys, really.  It was just me and Charlie and Seth. So, we would just sort of get to know each other in between straddling. 

Your character’s obviously an extreme, but do you think that older women particularly are more confident in their sexuality, and does that make them scary to men?  And do you find yourself becoming more confident with yourself or happier with yourself as grow older?

Aniston: Absolutely.  I think I absolutely get more comfortable in my body and in who I am as I get older, way more than when I was in my 20s. I was just so awkward and uncomfortable. And are men intimidated by sexually confident women?  I think men are intimidated by any woman who’s sexually confident no matter what age.

***Opening across the Philippines on September 21, Horrible Bosses is a New Line Cinema distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.