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Jennifer Anistonsays filming theFriendsreunion special earlier this year brought up some tough memories.
Aniston, 52, opened up toThe Hollywood Reporterabout her experience reuniting with herFriendscostars for theHBO Max special, which aired on the streaming platform in May. Aniston said she expected the reunion to be “fun,” but ended up walking out of filming “at certain points” after becoming emotional.
“I think we were just so naive walking into it, thinking, ‘How fun is this going to be? They’re putting the sets back together, exactly as they were,’ " she said. “Then you get there and it’s like, ‘Oh right, I hadn’t thought about what was going on the last time I was actually here.’ "
She described the experience as “very jarring,” explaining, “Of course, you’ve got cameras everywhere and I’m already a little emotionally accessible, I guess you could say, so I had to walk out at certain points. I don’t know how they cut around it.”
Aniston previously revealed that she felt “melancholy” filming the reunion. During a conversation onRob Lowe’sLiterally! With Rob Lowepodcast in September, Aniston said the reunion “really took us all down way harder than we anticipated.”
“Going back there, it’s nostalgic in a way that’s kind of also a little melancholy, you know,” she said at the time. “Because a lot has changed and we have all gone down different roads, not so easy and some easy … for each of us.”
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Friendsalso starredCourteney Cox,Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc,Matthew PerryandDavid Schwimmer, all of whom joined Aniston for the HBO Max reunion. She told Lowe that at one point, she and her costars were “all kind of in a puddle.”
“Even LeBlanc broke at one point. You know, Mr. Tough Guy,” she said. “You know, our brother. Mr. Impenetrable. Our big brother who would kill anybody if they looked at you wrong. Even he got a little misty.”
Greta Bjornson
source: people.com
