Courteney Cox has been celebrating the 30th anniversary of Friends, while saying she “can’t imagine” that a reboot of the show would work.
The hit sitcom ran for 10 seasons on NBC from 1994 to 2004, with Cox playing Monica Geller, alongside co-stars Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry.
With the show’s 30th birthday arriving on Sunday (September 22), series creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane have been reflecting on the show’s legacy, even discussing the possibility of reviving the Friends universe by following the six characters’ children.
In a new interview with People, however, Cox has expressed her scepticism about the idea, saying she “can’t imagine” a reboot series.
“It’s hard to try to redo anything,” she said. “Anything with ‘re’ in front of it with this group…I think it’s so special.”
She has, however, shared her love for the show and its legacy, describing it as “incredible”, and saying, “Every joke holds up, all the characters are just so amazing, and we [had] the best writers in the world. I’m lucky that it continues on through all the generations. And that’s very fortunate.”
The fallout from the tragic death of Matthew Perry in October 2023 continues to be felt, with five people having been charged last month, including ‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha and Perry’s personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa.
Hollywood addiction expert Joe Schrank recently said that Perry had surrounded himself with a “toxic” group of “enablers”, explaining: “It was toxic. But that’s what they do. Addicts like Perry are going to surround themselves with enablers – assistants who will not draw lines in the sand, sycophantic hangers-on who’ll do anything to be near a celebrity, including get them drugs – and distance themselves from people that will tell them hard truths.”
Perry’s co-star David Schwimmer revealed last week that he was surprised to learn that Perry had been complimentary about him, after he had been “reserved” with him so often in the past.
In other Friends news, one of the writers of the show, Andrew Reich, has said he would “bring more diversity” to the show now if he had the opportunity. On the same theme, Aisha Tyler, who played paleontologist Charlie Wheeler in the ninth and tenth seasons of the show, has also reflected on the lack of diversity on the show.
Cox, meanwhile, recently recreated her iconic dance from Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’ video on Instagram.
