In the first half of 2020, just before the coronavirus outbreak stopped, the world and WarnerMedia were preparing to launch their HBO Max broadcast service, plans for a special were underway. Friends meeting to shoot and do exclusively for the platform. Due to quarantine and blockades, plans for the meeting were delayed for more than a year. Friends: The meeting it was finally released in May 2021 with large numbers. Now, with some time to reflect on the reflection, the star of the series, Jennifer Aniston, says that the meeting was a difficult thing to achieve and that it was a bit annoying.
Gent makes news of this interview that was part of the last episode of the Literally! With Rob Lowe podcast. At first, Aniston revealed reluctance on his part and with his co-stars even to attend a meeting, but revealed that the take on producer-director Ben Winston is what made everyone agree to show up. “(His idea) resonated with everyone and it didn’t seem like something that would make it cheap or dirty something that would fit perfectly in its place.” But in the end he was unearthing the memories that seemed to be the hardest.
“I think it really took us all a lot longer than we expected,” Aniston revealed to Lowe. “Because in your mind, you think, ‘Oh, this is going to be a lot of fun traveling through time.’ the set was put back on exactly, it was exactly the same.small tchotchkes on the shelves and little little things that had been in a storage space all this time.Suddenly here you are.And, you know, 16 years, many things have happened to each of us. “
He added about the filming experience: “Going back there, it’s nostalgic in a way that’s also a little melancholy, you know, because a lot of things have changed and we’ve all come different paths, some easy and some not so easy for each of us … It was brutal, plus it can’t be turned off.There are cameras everywhere and I can’t stop crying … There was a time when we were all in a puddle. David didn’t (cry), I don’t think we broke him. But even LeBlanc broke at some point. You know, Mr. Tough Guy … Even he got a little foggy. “
You can play all episodes of Friends, as well as Friends: The meeting, and HBO Max.