She’ll be there for you.
The hotly predicted “Friends” reunion specific, which hits HBO Max on Thursday, May possibly 27, was “emotional” to movie, Lisa Kudrow claimed.
“It was each and every emotion,” Kudrow, 57, informed the Publish. “It was a good deal of laughing and then authentic blubbering — which, I don’t know if that will be in there, but the puffy eyes are in there, so that’s great. It was an emotionally exhausting and good several times.”
Known as “Friends: The Reunion,” the distinctive reunites the stars of the hit sitcom, which aired from 1994-2004 on NBC. The unique was initially scheduled to be portion of HBO Max’s start in May of 2020 — but after acquiring delayed by the pandemic, it’s eventually premiering one particular yr afterwards.
Kudrow, who rose to fame starring as the eccentric Phoebe Buffay, will be joined by Jennifer Aniston who performed vogue-ahead Rachel, Courteney Cox, who played uptight Monica, Matt LeBlanc, who played flirty Joey, Matthew Perry, who performed sarcastic Chandler, and David Schwimmer, who performed neurotic Ross.
The solid users won’t seem in character, Kudrow mentioned.
“It’s completely unscripted. It’s us seeing each and every other and they rebuilt the sets on [the show’s original Warner Bros soundstage] Stage 24. It is performed really properly, way too. But it’s us, and also just reducing all-around — there are clips and items.”
For occasion, Kudrow said, the cast will be viewing some video footage chronicling their time on the series that they hadn’t found ahead of.
“It turns out [a crew member] was using property motion pictures that I didn’t know about, and that was amazing [to see]. There is so a great deal good things.”
In the particular, the main cast will reunite on the legendary “Friends” sets these types of as the gang’s infamous coffee store dangle-out location Central Perk, Monica and Rachel’s improbably spacious purple-walled condominium, and Joey and Chandler’s bachelor pad — total with their reclining chairs.
As HBO Max has introduced, they’ll also be joined by a staggering who’s who of famed attendees, such as David Beckham, BTS, James Corden, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Kit Harington, Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon, Malala Yousafzai, and more.
“There’s just a great deal of surprises — like, issues we weren’t anticipating,” explained Kudrow. “People exhibiting up that we have been shocked by. There’s a good deal likely on in it.”
Some of the exclusive attendees were specifically shocking to the “Friends” cast.
“I was like, ‘Wait, that is Justin Bieber. Ideal? Would he be below? Is he in this article? He’s seriously right here that’s Justin Bieber!” said Kudrow. “That was sort of remarkable. I’m throwing in a ‘kind of’ so that I appear a minimal cooler. It was interesting. I really don’t get enthusiastic about meeting men and women — but Justin Bieber, he’s interesting.”
Kudrow claimed she’s grateful that “Friends” produced its cast renowned in the ‘90s and early 2000s.
“I consider we’re constantly glad about the way items transpired when they did. Since if it were now, it would be too much to handle with social media and all the things else. But even in the ‘90s you experienced to make an exertion like ‘Don’t glimpse your self up on the world-wide-web! You will not like it.’”
