The forged of US sitcom Buddies solely met up as soon as between the present’s closing episode and the reunion particular, Lisa Kudrow has mentioned.
The actress, who performed Phoebe Buffay within the hit present, mentioned her and her co-stars Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, hardly ever received collectively as a six after the present completed in 2004.
She mentioned there was just one event a decade after the ultimate episode had aired the place the group had dinner.
After that, it wasn’t till Buddies: The Reunion, which aired in 2021, that they have been all in the identical room collectively once more.
“We only had dinner, the six of us, once before, since the show had ended,” Kudrow instructed Trendy Household star Jesse Tyler Ferguson on his podcast Dinner’s On Me.
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(L-R) David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc. Pic: Reuters
Regardless of reuniting 10 years after the present ended, the actress mentioned she felt the group “didn’t miss a beat”.
“It was so great that it was like ‘we should do this more’,” the 61-year-old mentioned.
Talking in regards to the reunion particular, the place the forged appeared as themselves and mirrored on a number of the present’s most iconic moments and well-known units, Kudrow mentioned: “To have all of us together on the set, you never know when it will be impossible.”
‘It shook us up’
Final 12 months Perry, who performed Chandler Bing within the present, died on the age of 54 from the “acute effects of ketamine”. He was discovered lifeless at his dwelling within the Pacific Palisades space of Los Angeles.
Kudrow mentioned the loss of life of her former co-star was “a big jolt”.
“It shook us up, I have to say,” she mentioned, including: “He [Perry] mentioned it will not be a shock, however will probably be a shock, and that was precisely proper. So sensible, that’s true – it wasn’t a shock, but it surely was a shock.
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“It was a big jolt.
“Personally, I feel he died joyful. I feel within the days round his passing, I feel he was joyful and enthusiastic about what’s occurring subsequent.”
Kudrow said she began to rewatch old episodes of Friends to aid the grieving process.
“Schwimmer was hilarious, Matt LeBlanc was making me giggle out loud, Jennifer, come on, she’s so good, look what she simply did,” she mentioned.
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Perry died in October 2023. Pic: AP
“And Courteney, oh my God, you’re hilarious… And Matthew, of course, at the time he was blowing me away.”
Out of the 236 episodes of the present, Kudrow mentioned there are nonetheless some she has not seen, as there’s a “certain amount of anxiety around watching”.
“I’m afraid of what my takeaway is going to be,” she mentioned.
“When Phoebe got married and she’s walking down the aisle and has this huge smile on her face, I teared up because she was so happy, she was so honestly happy.
“It was actually touching to me, she deserves to be this joyful.”
Buddies centered on a gaggle of six twentysomethings residing in New York and first aired within the US on 22 September 1994.
By the point it left screens a decade later, it was a popular culture phenomenon and stays one of the in style exhibits on tv.
