“When Matthew Perry really struggled with addiction and got so sick, they closed ranks.” “The cast would never talk to outsiders about each other,” said the production source. It was a Cobb salad that Jennifer doctored up with turkey bacon and garbanzo beans and I don’t know what … if you’re going to eat the same salad every day for 10 years, it’d better be a good salad, right?”Īnd when any of their friends went through hard times, the actors grew even more tight-knit.
And we always had the same thing - a Cobb salad,” Cox recalled in 2010. “Jennifer and Lisa and I ate lunch together every single day for 10 years. The guest stars were put at the other end of the studio, and they rarely talked to them,” the production source said. “The cast was so close that they had all their dressing rooms moved to one end of the soundstage upstairs. The intense level of fame the young cast found on “Friends” quickly brought them together - as they were the only ones who could understand what they were all going through. We were in a room together, in a coffee shop together. We weren’t checking Facebooks and Instagrams. Her comments echoed those of Aniston, who said in 2016: “I think why people have such an affection for is because … there was something about a time where our faces weren’t stuffed into cell phones. “Now, they all have families, so what are we going to watch?” It would be fun, but what would it be about? … The thing we liked best about the show was that they were 20-somethings and they were their own family,” Kudrow has said. The cast has been outspoken until now about not wanting to reunite as the characters. “Although there is one section of it that, I don’t want to give away, but where we, we all read something.”Ī post shared by Jennifer Aniston They got back together for a 2019 group selfie on Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram page. We’re not in character,” he recently told talk-show host Graham Norton. It’s not, according to Schwimmer, a continuation of the show. “Security was so tight as they’re desperate to keep things top secret.” Just to see the cast together gave me chills,” the insider said. It’s also meant to help draw subscribers to HBO Max, now the exclusive streaming home for reruns of the show.īut a source who was one of the very few people on set, told The Post: “It couldn’t have gone any better … I love these six people!”Īnother insider revealed that strict pandemic and security measures were in play, with phones and laptops banned from the set.
The reunion was meant to air on May 27, 2020, to mark the launch of streaming service HBO Max, but was pushed back multiple times because of lockdown.Ī post shared by Friends have been nerves among TV execs - and the stars themselves - as there is a lot riding on the reunion thanks to the big paychecks and anticipation from fans around the world eager to see Rachel Green (Aniston), Monica Geller (Cox), Phoebe Buffay (Kudrow), Ross Geller (Schwimmer), Joey Tribbiani (LeBlanc) and Chandler Bing (Perry) together again. It’s a gift to have that kind of friendship.” “Everything they went through together bonded them. “They’re a very tight-knit group,” a production source who worked on the show told The Post. In the 17 years since “Friends” ended, the six have experienced births, marriages, divorces and devastating personal struggles, but throughout it all, they have remained, as the show’s theme song goes, there for each other.
(It’s not yet known when the special will air).
She was even still driving her car of choice from back then, a Porsche.Īnd while it seemed like time has stood still, it actually took years - plus $3 million and an executive producing credit each, The Post is told by those familiar with negotiations - to get Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc on screen together again. Now 52, the actress still looks remarkably like she did back in May 2004, when one of the biggest TV hits of all time ended after 10 seasons. lot in Burbank, Calif., to join her former castmates in taping the “Friends” reunion special, which happened this week. Last week, it was just like old times as Jennifer Aniston pulled on to the Warner Bros. ‘Friends’ cast models new merch collection for charity