The solid of US sitcom Pals solely met up as soon as between the present’s closing episode and the reunion particular, Lisa Kudrow has stated.

The actress, who performed Phoebe Buffay within the hit present, stated her and her co-stars Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, not often acquired collectively as a six after the present completed in 2004.

She stated there was just one event a decade after the ultimate episode had aired the place the group had dinner.

After that, it wasn’t till Pals: The Reunion, which aired in 2021, that they had been all in the identical room collectively once more.

“We solely had dinner, the six of us, as soon as earlier than, for the reason that present had ended,” Kudrow instructed Trendy Household star Jesse Tyler Ferguson on his podcast Dinner’s On Me.

Regardless of reuniting 10 years after the present ended, the actress stated she felt the group “did not miss a beat”.

“It was so nice that it was like ‘we should always do that extra’,” the 61-year-old stated.

Talking in regards to the reunion particular, the place the solid appeared as themselves and mirrored on among the present’s most iconic moments and well-known units, Kudrow stated: “To have all of us collectively on the set, you by no means know when will probably be not possible.”

‘It shook us up’

Final 12 months Perry, who performed Chandler Bing within the present, died on the age of 54 from the “acute results of ketamine”. He was discovered lifeless at his house within the Pacific Palisades space of Los Angeles.

Kudrow stated the loss of life of her former co-star was “a giant jolt”.

“It shook us up, I’ve to say,” she stated, including: “He [Perry] stated it will not be a shock, however will probably be a shock, and that was precisely proper. So sensible, that’s true – it wasn’t a shock, but it surely was a shock.

“It was a giant jolt.

“Personally, I believe he died completely happy. I believe within the days round his passing, I believe he was completely happy and enthusiastic about what’s taking place subsequent.”

Kudrow stated she started to rewatch outdated episodes of Pals to assist the grieving course of.

“Schwimmer was hilarious, Matt LeBlanc was making me giggle out loud, Jennifer, come on, she’s so good, look what she simply did,” she stated.

“And Courteney, oh my God, you are hilarious… And Matthew, in fact, on the time he was blowing me away.”

Out of the 236 episodes of the present, Kudrow stated there are nonetheless some she has not seen, as there’s a “specific amount of hysteria round watching”.

“I am afraid of what my takeaway goes to be,” she stated.

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“When Phoebe acquired married and she or he’s strolling down the aisle and has this big smile on her face, I teared up as a result of she was so completely happy, she was so actually completely happy.

“It was actually touching to me, she deserves to be this completely happy.”

Pals targeted on a bunch of six twentysomethings residing in New York and first aired within the US on 22 September 1994.

By the point it left screens a decade later, it was a popular culture phenomenon and stays one of the crucial common exhibits on tv.