PICTURED: Friends cast seen ahead of HBO Max reunion as Jennifer Aniston reveals she thought: ‘How are we going to get through this without crying our faces off?’
All six Friends cast members have been seen together again.
The star got together to cover the latest issue of People magazine ahead of the show’s reunion special on HBO Max.
Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry – who shot to fame on the iconic sitcom which ran from 1994 to 2004 – were seen posing together in a new image.
And Jennifer, 52, shared that they would all be too emotional about their reunion to do any work: ‘I thought, “Oh God, how are we going to get through this alive, without just crying our faces off?”‘
Together again: All six Friends stars got together to cover the latest issue of People magazine ahead of the show’s reunion special on HBO Max
Courteney also revealed that during the process of making the reunion: ‘I was flooded with 10 years of irreplaceable memories.’
Matt admitted that the reunion had been a bit ‘melancholy,’ while Lisa acknowledged it was an ’emotional’ time for them.
During the 10-season run of the NBC sitcom the six stars formed a famously close bond with one another personally and professionally.
They even banded together to negotiate an equal salary hike for all of them, resulting in a $1 million payday apiece per episode.
Matthew said their rapport was still ‘magic’ and when Matt joked that it was ‘awkward,’ Matthew meet him in the middle with ‘awkwardly magic.’
Matt’s character Joey and Matthew’s character Chandler begin the series as roommates and remain bosom buddies throughout.
The unscripted reunion special will see them chat about their memories of the show and even read through the episode The One With The Jellyfish.
During that episode Chandler infamously urinates on the leg of Courteney’s character Monica to alleviate the pain from a jellyfish sting.
At the end of that season Monica and Chandler get romantically involved with one another, eventually becoming the series’ most enduring couple.
The show concludes when Monica and Chandler finally leave their Greenwich Village apartment to move to a house in Westchester with their newborn twins.
Courteney has theories on Monica’s future: ‘I always just feel like Monica would be doing something competitively with other mothers and trying to outdo them.’
She added: ‘Whether it’s the bake sale at school or something. I mean, she’d be so annoying. She’d be at the head of the PTA or something.’
In the last season Lisa’s character Phoebe marries a pianist called Mike Hanigan played by Paul Rudd in the role that made him famous.
Once Monica and Chandler have their babies – through a surrogate played by Anna Faris – Phoebe decides she wants children with Mike as well.
‘Ooh, we could teach them to sing and then we could be like the Von Trapp family,’ she gushes on the finale, ‘only without the Nazis, although that sounds kinda dull.’
Lisa told People that in her mind Phoebe currently ‘is living in Connecticut with Mike and their kids, and she’s in charge of the arts program for the school.’ says.
Phoebe, who was always the oddball of the group, has become ‘the advocate for her kids because they’re different like she was,’ according to Lisa.