that friend The cast was known to be a tight-knit group both on and off screen. Lisa Kudrow‘s recent revelations were shocking. us!
Actress Phoebe Buffay, 61, said she and her famous friends: Jennifer Aniston, courteney cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and late matthew perry — After the show ended, they met for dinner just once before their 2021 TV reunion.
“The six of us have only had dinner once since the show ended,” Kudrow said in the Tuesday, Dec. 10 episode. modern family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson‘S ‘Dinner’s On Me’ Podcast (via sky news).
The dinner took place about 10 years after the hit NBC sitcom ended in 2004, and the stars “didn’t miss a beat,” according to Kudrow.
He added, “It was so good that I thought, ‘I need to do more of this.’”
Alas, the next time all the famous friends get together is in 2021 on HBO Max. Friends: The ReunionThey revisited famous characters and storylines.
Little did the cast or fans know that it would be the last time we would see all six stars together. Perry died in October 2023 at the age of 54 from the acute effects of ketamine.
“I would say it shook us up,” Kudrow told Ferguson on a podcast Tuesday. “He said it wouldn’t be surprising, but it would be shocking, and he was right. Too smart to be true. “It wasn’t surprising, but it was shocking.”
“It was a huge shock,” she added.
speaking Dax Shepherd Kudrow said on her “Armchair Expert” podcast on Monday, December 9, that she took some comfort in the fact that Perry was happy at the time of his death.
“This is going to sound strange. “It gives me more comfort to know that he was happy on the day he passed away.” “He should die happy. And that was a gift to me.”
Kudrow also said the bond between the six was friend A star is not born overnight.
“It was really nice. “We got along really well.” she said “We tried really hard to become friends. A six-way relationship took some work and we did it.”
“If someone said something or did something, it didn’t really become a big deal. It was ‘Can I talk to you?’ — Usually not me. Because I had to learn how to say, ‘Can we talk about something?’ Because I had no idea that was allowed!” Kudrow explained. “But I saw Courteney, Jennifer and Matt model really well. Respectful communication.”