Scroll through the gallery below to see everything they’ve said about the upcoming special.
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Guest Stars
“It was really thrilling, a little intimidating, and then thrilling,” Kudrow told Entertainment Tonight in May of celebs’ guest appearances in the upcoming special. “Because they like Friends so much. Shooting any of it, being in the same room with these people and getting to hug them [was my favorite].”
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Can’t Wait
Shortly after the announcement, Cox went on the “Hiking With Kevin” YouTube series and explained she’s extremely excited. “We’re going to have the best time,” she said in February. “It’s going to be great. We really haven’t all done that and actually sat there and talked about and reminisced about this incredible experience that we had. … It’s going to be fantastic.”
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No Instruments
In April 2020, LeBlanc shared his reaction to the reunion series, telling Kelly Clarkson that it’ll be nice to reminisce. “It’s more like the six of us together talking about the good old days,” he said at the time. “We got the band back together without the instruments.”
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Why They Agreed
“Look, we’re all incredibly grateful, and we all knew it then, and know it now, that that was such a unique situation,” the Comeback creator told Entertainment Weekly in May. “We all loved — and love — each other. And genuinely had so much fun. And laughed for 10 years every day. We’re just really grateful. When we have been able to get together — I think that’s maybe twice and not even all of us — some people remember stuff the rest of us don’t remember at all. And then it’s fantastic. It’s like you’re being introduced to something that everybody else knows that you forgot.”
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Not Scripted
Most of the cast have revealed that the show is not scripted, but instead just the six actors together talking about the series. “I will not be Rachel, although I kind of am. Well, we’re all sort of little fragments of them. Not really,” Aniston quipped during a Variety interview in June 2020.
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Back on Stage
In July 2020, Schwimmer said the thing he was most excited about was just the actual reunion. “I guess what I’m honestly most looking forward to is just being in the room with those other five actors,” he told E! News. “But being on the actual soundstage on the actual set for the first time in 10 years, the set that we shot on for 10 years, that to me is going to be a really meaningful experience.”
During a July 2020 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Schwimmer added that the special will be “basically a really fun interview and then some other surprise bits.”
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Postponed Again
Aniston spoke out after the reunion was delayed again in August 2020 amid concerns about shooting the special with a live audience amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Unfortunately, it’s very sad that we had to move it again,” she told Deadline, admitting “it’s not a safe time” to shoot with a studio full of people. But she insisted that when they do finally get together in front of a camera, “It’s going to be super.”
“You know what? This has also given us more time to make it even more exciting and more fun than it would have been. So I choose to see it as the glass is half-full that it got postponed,” she said. “Look, we’re not going anywhere. You’re never going to get rid of Friends, sorry. You’re stuck with us for life, guys.”
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Host on the Hook?
Kudrow hinted that Ellen DeGeneres could be hosting the special while appearing on a September 2020 episode of SiriusXM’s Radio Andy. “Um, you may [have heard that], I don’t know,” she told host Andy Cohen. “I don’t know that that’s been decided.” The Web Therapy actress also joked about what kind of reunion fans can expect, saying, “Well, I think we’re going to sit around like a really nice restaurant, and have you host and start screaming at each other … No, that’s not, I don’t know. I can’t say.”
