Jennifer's battle of the hair ways

Studio bosses fought Jennifer Aniston's plans to dye her hair darker for her latest film Horrible Bosses because they feared fans would fail to recognise her as a brunette, she revealed today.

The Friends star dyed her blonde locks brown and added a heavy fringe for her role as a raunchy dentist in the comedy -- as in the picture below where she's trying to seduce her employee Charlie Day. She admits the new look was her idea, but said studio chiefs weren't impressed.

 
She told the Chicago Sun-Times: "We had this wonderful period of time I do call Hair Gate. The studio didn't want me to wear a wig. I was told, 'No one will know who you are.' I said, 'They will know my name from the credits.'

"I'm the one who insisted on the dark hair. I was doing a movie right before this and one after that had me looking more like me, and I knew this character had to be different... I just felt such a freedom."

Horrible Bosses, which also stars Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey and Donald Sutherland, is the tale of how a group of disgruntled workers hire a "murder consultant" to kill their extremely obnoxious bosses but don't realise he's a conman.