Friends: The Reunion was an emotional experience for fans and cast alike, with former cast mates Jennifer, Matt, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer walking together down memory lane. But amid the good times, Jennifer was caught off guard by some of the harder emotions that came up while filming the special.
“In your mind you think, ‘Oh, this will be really fun to time travel,'” she told Rob Lowe on his podcast Literally! with Rob Lowe in September 2021. “It turns out, ooh, ouch, it’s kind of hard to time travel.”
As she continued, Jennifer highlighted how surreal it was to see the set, which had “the exact same everything, down to the little tchotchkes on the shelves.” But while the set remained the same, Jennifer knew that she and her co-stars had not.
“You know, [in] 16 years, a lot has gone on for each of us,” she continued. “And 16 years ago, we were all sort of wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, and sort of had our whole lives ahead of us—even though we were heartbroken to say goodbye to these 10 years and this family and these people and the job we all loved to do.”
