Jennifer AnistonRachel Green had an unforgettable group of girlfriends on television, but even the Central Perk crew may not have had relationships as strong as the relationship in Jen’s real life with her Friends Kostari.
While the star celebrates her 56th birthday on Tuesday, February 11, is the perfect time to look back at the real relationships behind one of the most successful sitcoms in television history. 21 years have passed since Friends completed its emblematic cycle, but Aniston’s relationship with her colleagues are still so captivating to the NBC show fans as Her love lifeS From important celebrations to personal tragedies, the cast of Friends At first glance, they are still part of Aniston’s life in a very meaningful way.
Continue to scroll to look back what all the basic Friends The members of the cast have told Aniston on screen and off -screen over the years.
Courteney Cox
Cox and Aniston were one of the most ridiculous comedy duets of television in Friends And it is clear that the interaction of Monica Geller and Rachel Green is rooted in the deep attachment that the two actresses had to each other away from the cameras.
The couple every year send thoughtful birthday messages on social media, such as when Cox writes to Aniston On Instagram in 2020: “As much as you try to try … there is only one Jennifer Aniston. Happy birthday, dear friend. “
In February 2024, Cox shared vintage Friends clip From the season, the second episode “One where Heckles dies”, where their television alter Ego is in a huge dispute over Monica’s lamp, which breaks Rachel’s lamp. Lower Rachel has some sad news about Chandler, who tells him: “Hey, Chandler. Monica just broke my Seashell lamp. “
“I’m not sure why this is one of my favorite videos … I guess this is because no one else in the world could make this line sound so sweet,” Cox wrote via Instagram. “Happy birthday, my sweet Jenny Louise. I also don’t know why I call it that … But I certainly love you. “
Friends’s cast has mentioned the show – and their favorite episodes – many times since the end of the 2004 series. “Here’s what I love when I watch an episode, I usually remember where we broke during the stage,” Jennifer Aniston told Costar Lisa Kudrow during a joint interview with diversity in June (…)
Aniston, for his part Friends Costar in June 2024
Aniston wrote through Instagram: “Celebrating this powerful, magical, mystical, interesting, interested, fierce talented girl today !!! My sweet cc @courteneyCoxOfficial … it’s funny like no other, stunning on the inside and out. Independent in the most great way, takes care of everyone, even if he does not know you. “
Lisa Kudrow
Rachel’s friendship with the heartbreaking hook, Phoebe Buffai, did not always look as deep and meaningful as her relationship with Monica, but like Aniston and Kudow outside the camera, there is never a doubt how much they care for each other.
Kudrow admittedly admitted during an interview of December 2024 of A “armchair expert” podcape that Friends The roles “really got along” during the creation of the show.
Actress Phoebe admitted that “the six -way relationship of the cast had taken some work and (they) did it.” Kudrow also mentioned the training from the Cox and Aniston approach to disagreements.
“If someone said something or did something, it didn’t get too big because it was,” Can I talk to you? ” ” Kudow recalledBefore I add, “I had to learn to (to say):” Can I talk to you about something? “Because I never knew it was allowed, but I saw that it was modeling it very well from Corteni and Jennifer and Matt. Respectful communication. “
When Kudow turned 60 in July 2023, Aniston called his ex Friends Castmate “One of her favorite people on the planet.”
“She is a friend of mine and my family of nearly 30 incredible years. I appreciate you … I love you, my cute, “Aniston wrote through InstagramS “One of the most talented comedians/actors, with whom I had the great honor to work for all these glorious years and are yet to come.”
David Schwimer
Aniston and Schwimer have admitted that they “crush hard on each other” during Friends“Original running, but unlike their characters Rachel and Ross, They have never actually metS
Schwimmer revealed during the photos of Friends: The Union In 2021, there were times at the beginning of the sitcom when they “choke on the couch” between the scenes.
During a Live with Kelly and Mark The appearance in March 2023 Aniston said it was “quite nice” to shoot the kisses of Rachel and Ross with Schwimer. She acknowledged even once to examine the topic of real life romance with her Kostar.
“I remember, Friends: The UnionS “Surely enough, the first time we kissed was in this cafe. We just focused all our adoration and love for each other in Ross and Rachel. “
In a television special television in memory of the end of FriendsSchwimer cited his relationship with Aniston as one of the most important in his life.
Jennifer Aniston, Cortei Cox and more Kostari had their fair share of high -profile romances as the sitcom catapulted his career. In 1995, one year after the NBC series premiered, Aniston’s actress began to meet Tate Donovan. The couple called her to give up three years later, and while they were working through their separation, they were given a romantic (…)
– Jen, she surprised me. Also, (a) a very generous, warm, warm person. It just always puts the other person in the first place and I think it’s a gift, “he said.
In the same special 2003, Aniston acknowledged that the two had “a lot of history”, in addition to praise how useful Schwimer was during the shooting process.
“(He is) really smart and helps me understand things I don’t understand. … I can be really honest with David and speak my opinion and I really appreciate that you let me do it, “Aniston told him.
Mat
While Rachel and Joey had an unexpected but wonderful romance in the short seasons of FriendsLeblanc was quoted in the 2004 official licensed book. Friends … by the end The fact that he actually had an “little love” of Aniston in the early seasons of the show.
“I think the whole world did, so what will you do?” He declares at the time.
In recent years, Leblanc suggests that Aniston is more recently like her “little sister”, which is a different dynamic than she had with Cox and Kudrow.
“Korteni (Cox) and Lisa (Kudrow) are like my big sisters, but Jen is like my little sister,” he told People In 2015, “Matthew is like my little brother, and David (Schwimer) as my big brother. So everything fell apart. And it is literally just like chronological. “
Aniston offered a unique Birthday desire to Leblanc when he turned 57 in July 2024, writing via Instagram: “I hope you are doing so much today. I love you. “
Her joke refers to that of leblanc 2017 the appearance of Conan Where the actor expressed his desire to withdraw from acting.
“I would like to retire earlier than later, because I think I would like to not do it -something. I would like to do that. Just nothing. Nothing! Zero – shudder leblanc.
Matthew Perry
Like Schwimmer and Leblanc, Perry admitted that he fell in love with Aniston during their Friends Flourishing.
“In the end, my crush was distracted,” he told Radio Sirius XM In 2022, “At first she came in … and I’ll just go to my dressing room and (nourishment). “I will never be able to be with her.” But how can you not fall in love with Jennifer Aniston? “
The late Perry pointed to Aniston in an October 2022 interview with Diane Sawyer for continuing to register with him throughout his addictionS
“She was the one who reached the most. You know, I’m really grateful for it, “he said.
In the same interview, Perry remembered that Aniston tried to turn to him in a dark period through Friends“Production.
Warner Bros. Television/Getty Images The late Matthew Perry will always be remembered by the cast of friends. “We are all so devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just collected. We are a family, “said the show stars, Jennifer Aniston, Corteni Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Leblan and David Schwimer, said US Weekly (…)
“Imagine how scary it was,” Perry admitted, later said, “I had to be the toast of the city, but I was in a dark meeting with nothing but drug dealers and completely alone.”
When perry died tragically at the age of 54 From the acute effects of Ketamine’s use in October 2023, Aniston wrote by Instagram that she felt a “crazy wave of emotions that (she) has never experienced.”
“We all have a loss at some point in our lives,” she began. “Loss of life or loss of love. To be able to sit really in this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and gratitude that you loved someone so deeply. And we loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA. We were always 6 of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we are and what our path will be. “
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