Lisa Kudrow, who played the free-spirited Pheobe Buffay on the hit NBC sitcom “Friends,” revealed that the entire cast of the ’90s mainstay met only once in the seventeen years between the 2004 series finale and “Friends: the Reunion’. ”, which premiered in 2021.
“The six of us had only had dinner once before since the show ended,” Kudrow said on a Tuesday episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast.
Despite the hiatus, Kudrow added that once the cast of “Friends” — consisting of Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc — finally reunited “10 years” after the show ended, she felt that they “don’t miss a beat.”
‘Just us at someone’s house and [we] I ate and didn’t miss a beat,” Kudrow said.
Perry, who played the funny Chandler Bing on “Friends,” died on October 28, 2023 at the age of 54 from complications caused by ketamine use. Authorities found him unconscious in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home. While emergency responders were initially called for cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office toxicology report later revealed that the actor died from “the acute effects of ketamine.”
In August, five arrests were made in connection with Perry’s death, including two doctors and his assistant who “took advantage” of Perry by selling him the drugs, the Justice Department said.
“We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just castmates. We are a family. There is so much to say, but right now we are going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss,” Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc and Schwimmer wrote in a joint statement following Perry’s death. “We will say more in due course, as soon as we are able to do so. For now, our thoughts and our love are with Matty’s family, his friends and all who loved him around the world.”