Courteney Cox: ‘Friends’ Reunion ‘Not Gonna Happen’
Courteney Cox seems to be sick of being asked when the world’s beloved cast of Friends would be getting back together for a reunion episode, or maybe a movie or at least some hokey appearance at the Emmys. Anything.
Maybe friends are friends forever, she might as well have told David Letterman during her interview on Monday night, but not these Friends. Letterman predictably worked his way toward asking the 49-year-old Cox about when “Friends thing” might be happening, and she hemmed nor hawed a second before saying, “It’s not gonna happen.”
Nobody was shocked or anything. Just last week, Friends creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman told Entertainment Weekly pretty much the same thing. “The show is over,” said Kauffman. What was at the heart of the show is done. And let’s be honest, it’s 20 years later. Nobody looks like they did then. And you’re going to spend the whole time going, ‘Wow, he’s aged’.”
Added Crane: “If anyone wants Friends, turn on your TV! Marta and I have talked about this a lot, and the more that we say it’s a bad idea, people disagree. But I think if we actually gave it to people, there would be such backlash.”
So don’t get your hopes up when you come across that contrived 10-year reunion poster making viral waves. It’s a phony.
Last year, ex-cast member Matthew Perry made the same assertion about the Friends franchise being finished. The closest anyone’s come to flirting with the idea was when Jennifer Aniston told Conan O’Brien that she had a nightmare that she hadn’t been invited to the reunion.
It’s not like Cox, who played Monica Geller then Monica Bing on the show, doesn’t have plenty on her plate anyway. She just wrapped up her fourth season of TBS hit Cougar Town, and she’s about to debut her directorial debut at the Tribeca International Film Festival, according to EOnline. As long as it isn’t Scream 5, it should be worth a watch.
Courteney’s also balancing all these career moves with the addition of Snow Patrol star Johnny McDaid to her private life. Courteney and Johnny showed up beaming, arm in arm, to the Ed Sullivan Theater for the Letterman taping on Monday.
After shutting down Letterman’s Friends query, Cox tried to explain that getting the whole cast together for anything these days is tricky. She told him about trying with no success to just get the whole crew together for a dinner date.
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