David Schwimmer responds to fans hopes for a Friends reunion: 'It ended in the perfect way'
Like his co-stars, actor and director has moved on from the show that brought them worldwide fame
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Your support makes all the difference.David Schwimmer is the latest Friends cast member to respond to the idea of reunion, and he doesn’t sound convinced.
The actor and director, who played Ross Gellar on the hit sitcom, appeared on The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan over the weekend where he said that he believes all of the original “Friends” feel the show ended “in the perfect way”.
“Well, no. I mean… no,” he said. “I think we all feel it kind of ended in the perfect way.”
Schwimmer’s comments mirror his former co-star Matt LeBlanc’s last year, with the actor saying he didn’t want fans to see what had become of the group so many years later.
“I understand that people really want to see that reunion but that show was about a finite period in those characters' lives, between 20 and 30,” he said.
“To see what those characters are doing now, I think it's almost a case of that the book is better than the movie. Everyone's imagination of what they're doing now is better.”
Lisa Kudrow, who portrayed Phoebe Buffay, made similar comments: “That was about people in their twenties, thirties. The show isn’t about people in their forties, fifties,” she said. “And if we have the same problems, that’s just sad.”
However, not everyone is ruling it out, as Jennifer Aniston – who starred as Rachel Green – admitted that there is a chance that a revival could happen.
“Why not? You know what, because, listen, I told you this,” she said earlier this year. “I would do it... The girls would do it. And the boys would do it, I'm sure. Listen. Anything could happen.”
Friends is being removed from streaming service Netflix in 2020, with Warner recently confirming that all 236 episodes will only stream on the new HBO Max platform, following its launch next year.
See our definitive ranking of every Friends episode here.
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