Jennifer Aniston started to cry in the course of the newest episode of Selection’s “Actors on Actors” YouTube sequence Thursday, when actor Quinta Brunson requested her in regards to the 30-year anniversary of “Friends.”
“Oh, god, don’t make me cry,” she mentioned after somebody off-camera advised Brunson to ask Aniston in regards to the sitcom’s anniversary.
Brunson comforted Aniston, telling her they don’t have to debate it, whereas Aniston wiped away her tears with a tissue.
“It’s happy tears,” Aniston mentioned.
Brunson went on to say she was 5 years outdated when “Friends” premiered in 1994 and mentioned “it continues to be one of the best shows on television.”
Aniston mentioned it’s “strange” to suppose that the sitcom is 30 years outdated as a result of she remembers the day it premiered, earlier than sharing a narrative about her and co-star Matthew Perry assembly up with Lisa Kudrow on the hair salon the day the present premiered on TV.
“The fact that it’s had this long, wonderful life and it still means a lot to people is one of the greatest gifts I think all of six of us never could have imagined,” Aniston mentioned.
She went on to say she and her 5 co-stars are a “family forever” and that she even FaceTimed with co-star Courteney Cox the night time earlier than.
The group of mates had been rocked final 12 months when Perry, who performed Chandler Bing on the present, died on the age of 54. Perry struggled with substance abuse whereas filming the present and later mentioned throughout a reunion that his substance abuse was so dangerous, he didn’t bear in mind filming seasons 3 by means of 6.
Aniston didn’t speak about Perry throughout “Actors on Actors,” however she advised Selection in December that Perry was “really healthy and getting healthy” earlier than his loss of life.
“He was on a pursuit,” she mentioned. “He worked so hard. He really was dealt a tough one. I miss him dearly. We all do. Boy, he made us laugh really hard.”
Cox opened up about Perry in March, telling CBS’s “Sunday Morning” that Perry “visits me a lot, if we believe in that.”
“I talk to my mum, my dad, Matthew – I feel like there are a lotta people that are, I think, that guide us,” she defined. “I do sense, yeah, I sense Matthew’s around for sure.”
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