Courteney Cox rules out Friends reunion as sit-com approaches huge anniversary

'Friends' prima Courteney Cox has admitted it would beryllium "hard" to spot the amusement being rebooted and thinks the programme is "so special"

Courteney Cox has expressed her doubts astir the anticipation of a 'Friends' reboot ever taking place.

The 60-year-old star, who played Monica Geller successful the beloved sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, precocious shared with PEOPLE that she finds it "hard" to ideate the amusement being remade.

The archetypal formed besides featured Jennifer Aniston arsenic Rachel Green, Lisa Kudrow arsenic Phoebe Buffay, Matt LeBlanc arsenic Joey Tribbiani, David Schwimmer arsenic Ross Geller, and Matthew Perry, who sadly passed away, arsenic Chandler Bing. Show creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane person been bombarded with pitches for a reboot centred astir the characters' children, but Courteney remains sceptical: "It's hard to effort to redo anything."

She feels that thing associated with a 're-' prefix wouldn't bash justness to the archetypal group's magic: "Anything with 're' successful beforehand of it with this group... I deliberation it's truthful special." As 'Friends' approaches its 30th anniversary, the histrion is astounded by however rapidly clip has flown, telling PEOPLE: "It's conscionable insane to maine due to the fact that it feels similar time, it goes truthful accelerated and I don't realise it."

Gone are the days erstwhile she would privation clip away: "We utilized to say, 'Oh, I can't hold for this month' oregon 'God, it feels similar forever.' I would ne'er accidental that enactment anymore."

Cox, besides known for her relation successful 'Scream', cherishes the enduring bequest of 'Friends', arrogant that the humour and characters resonate crossed generations: "That amusement is incredible. Every gag holds up, each the characters are conscionable truthful amazing, and we [had] the champion writers successful the world. I'm fortunate that it continues connected done each the generations. And that's precise fortunate."

David and Marta person responded to the clamour for a revival. David reflected connected the show's legacy, saying: "I would ideate it's benignant of what it indispensable consciousness similar erstwhile your kid turns 30 and you're like, 'How did that happen?'" Marta shared insights into instrumentality requests, noting: "We get that a lot. I get emails astir it each the time. Everybody has a large idea, and the large thought is: their kids, grown up, doing a 'Friends' show."

Recalling a speech with The Times astir celebrating Matthew - who tragically passed distant successful October 2023 from the "acute effects" of ketamine astatine the property of 54 - during the iconic sitcom's 30th anniversary, Marta suggested: "Two things travel to caput [about however to observe him]: 1 of them is to donate to cause attraction centres - let's combat the disease."

She besides projected a heartfelt tribute: "And the 2nd mode is to ticker 'Friends' and retrieve him not arsenic a antheral who died similar that but arsenic a antheral who was hilariously comic and brought joyousness to everybody."

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