“We are hoping to be able to shoot in August if all is well and there is no early second wave and the studio is open,” cocreator Marta Kauffman told The Wrap in June.
The reunion will include all six cast members, ennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc, as well as Kauffman, 63, and cocreator David Krane. This will be the first time the entire cast is back together on screen since the show wrapped. The special is still set to film on Stage 24 of the Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank, the same stage the sitcom was filmed for 10 years.
“Guess you could call this ‘The One Where They Get Back Together,’” HBO Max’s chief content officer Kevin Reilly said in a statement in February. “I became aware of Friends when it was in the very early stages of development and then had the opportunity to work on the series many years later and have delighted in seeing it catch on with viewers generation after generation.”
The show, which consisted of 236 episodes between its 1994 premiere and 2004 finale, has become one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. The comedy was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards (four wins), 10 Golden Globe Awards (one win), 14 Screen Actors Guild Awards (two wins) and 11 People’s Choice Awards (11 wins).
Although many details about the special have yet to be announced, the cast has spoken out about it many times since the news broke. Scroll through the gallery below to see everything they’ve said about the upcoming special.
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.”
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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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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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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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