Jennifer Aniston reminisces emotional return to ‘Friends’ sets during reunion special

Washington: It’s not solely the followers of the beloved sitcom ‘Friends’ who’re nonetheless reminiscing the reunion special, but additionally the Emmy-winning star Jennifer Aniston, who’s recalling her `emotional` return to the sets of the present nearly after 17 years.

People Magazine reported that Aniston lately appeared on Gayle King`s SiriusXM present, the place she opened up about stepping onto the set of the enduring sitcom once more for the primary time in 17 years.

“It was a sucker punch in the heart in a way,” Aniston stated of the expertise, which was filmed for `Friends: The Reunion`, now streaming on HBO Max.

She went on to clarify that being in that house took an emotional toll on everybody, not simply her. “It was for all of us, I think. Even Courteney [Cox] we got tears out of! And I don`t even know she`s so, you know, not emotional,” the 52-year-old actor stated.

Aniston additional advised King that whereas everybody concerned within the reunion knew “the production crew would be recreating the Friends sets” for the two-hour special, she was nonetheless “unprepared for just how meticulous those recreations would be.”

“We were very naive in what we were expecting,” Aniston stated including that the sets have been rebuilt. She advised King that everybody was excited to return to the sets like, “This is going to be so fun to walk onto the set and they`re bringing all of the sets out from storage and putting it all back together.` We romanticized it.”

Aniston went on to clarify to King why the expertise of being on set once more impressed all these feels, “You also have to remember we haven`t been there. That time was a very specific time when we were saying goodbye to something that we didn`t want to, we cared deeply about, but we knew it was the time to say goodbye.”

“Our lives were ahead of us. We had our future ahead of us. And it almost felt like time had stopped and we time travel,” she added. Aniston performed Rachel Green on ‘Friends’, which initially aired for 10 seasons on NBC from 1994 to 2004. The beloved sitcom adopted the story of six mates of their 20s and 30s who dwell in Manhattan, New York City.