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The Friends the cast was known to be a tight-knit group on and off screen, but Lisa KudrowThe latest revelation shocked Our!
Actress Phoebe Buffay, 61, said she and her famous friends – Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and late Matthew Perry — only met for dinner once after the show ended, but before theirs 2021 TV reunion.
“We had dinner, the six of us, only once before because the show was over,” Kudrow said on Tuesday, April 10. Modern family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson‘with “Dinner’s On Me” Podcast. (over Sky News).
According to Kudrow, the dinner took place about a decade after the NBC sitcom ended in 2004, and the stars “didn’t miss a beat.”
“It was so great that it was like, ‘We should do more of this,'” she added.
Alas, the next time all the famous friends get together is in 2021 to record HBO Max’s Friends: Reunionin which they revisited their famous characters and story lines.
Little did the cast — or the fans — know it would be the last time we’d see all six stars together. Perry he died at the age of 54 from acute effects of ketamine in October 2023.
“I have to say, it shook us,” Kudrow told Ferguson on Tuesday’s podcast. “He said it wouldn’t be a surprise, but it would be a shock, and that was exactly right. So smart, it’s true—it wasn’t a surprise, but it was a shock.’
“It was a big shock,” she added.
talk to Dax Shepard on her “Armchair Expert” podcast on Monday, Dec. 9, Kudrow said she’s somewhat comforted by the fact that Perry was happy at the time of his death.
“That’s going to sound weird. I am more comforted that he was happy the day he died,” she said. “He must die happy. And it was a gift for me.”
Kudrow also shared that bond between six Friends stars didn’t just happen overnight.
“It was great, we really got along,” she said. “We also worked really hard to be friends. That six-way relationship took some work and we did it.”
“If someone said something or did something, it wasn’t a big deal because it was, ‘Can I talk to you?’ – usually not me, because I had to learn to say, ‘Can I talk to you about something?’ because I never knew it was allowed!” Kudrow explained. “But I saw it modeled really well by Courteney and Jennifer and Matt. Helpful communication.”