Lisa Kudrow Reveals “Friends” Cast Only Had Dinner Together Once Between Finale and 25th Reunion

While they might not all get together frequently, the Friends cast still has an unbreakable bond.

Lisa Kudrow appeared on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s On Me podcast on Dec. 10, where she reminisced on the beloved sitcom. Thinking about their 25th reunion episode in 2019, Kudrow revealed it was the first time she and all her costars had gotten together in a decade.

“It was so good,” she said of the reunion. “We'd only had dinner the six of us once before since the show ended.”

“How soon after the show?” Ferguson asked.

“Ten years!” Kudrow replied, adding that it was “fantastic.”

“It was like we didn't miss a beat,” she said, speaking of the core group of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry. “Just us at someone's house and had dinner and didn't miss a beat.”

Just four years later in October 2023, Perry died of an accidental drug overdose. While Kudrow said she had talked to Perry about his death before he passed, nothing could have prepared the cast for what his loss would feel like.

“It shook us up, I have to say,” Kudrow explained. “I mean, he said, ‘It won't be a surprise, but it will be a shock.’ And that was exactly right. He's so smart, like, how did he know? So smart. That is true, it wasn't a surprise, but it was a shock. It was a big jolt.”

She added: “I think, personally, I think he died happy. I think in the days around his passing, he was happy and excited about what's happening next.”

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To help with the grief, Kudrow said she decided to relive their days working together, so she started to rewatch Friends.

“God forbid anybody walk into my house and saw me watching my show, I'd be mortified,” she joked. “But after Matthew passed away, there were marathons and I wanted to watch. It felt like part of the remembering, grieving, remembering, all that, and just enjoying, and celebrating. And, boy, I appreciated everybody on it.”

“Like, Ben!” she continued. “Schwimmer’s hilarious. Matt LeBlanc is making me laugh out loud. Jennifer, come on! She's so good. Look what she just did, she's so good. And Courteney, it's like, oh my god, you're hilarious. How did you never get nominated for an Emmy? And Matthew, of course. Genius. At the time he was blowing me away.”

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Kudrow then admitted there are still episodes of the show that she hasn’t ever seen and she is “still deciding how to work my way through it.”

“I was at the table read,” she said. “I don't know what the rewrites were for the other stories. You know, cause then everyone's busy and doing things. I had a kid, I was married — I was the first one. And then I was doing movies, so sometimes I was doing them and come back to do pickups for the scenes I was in. There were episodes I just never saw and still haven’t.”

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