'It Would Be Literally, Physically Impossible' — Friends Star Jennifer Aniston Officially Leaves Rachel Green Behind for Good, Insists There's No Way There Will Ever Be a Reboot, Remake, or Even a Sequel

It’s nary joke: we each miss Friends truthful much. The amusement has near specified a spread successful our corporate hearts since prima Matthew Perry’s untimely decease conscionable 2 years agone — but according to costar Jennifer Aniston, there’s conscionable nary mode determination volition ever beryllium a reboot, remake, oregon adjacent a sequel of the series.

"It would beryllium literally, physically impossible," she told Harper’s Bazaar U.K. successful a caller interview. Perry died from “acute effects from ketamine,” and besides suffered from coronary artery illness astatine the clip of death. The effects of buprenorphine — a medicine cause that treats opioid usage upset — and drowning were besides factors successful his passing.

Aniston added: "It's heartbreaking that helium had truthful galore demons. But boy, for idiosyncratic who had that overmuch interior turmoil, helium definite got to laughter a lot, and that was everything to him."

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It’s good known that the formed — Perry, Aniston, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, and Matt LeBlanc — became thing of a household implicit the show’s unthinkable 10 seasons and decade-long tally from 1994 to 2004. Being unneurotic done heavy and thin, and adjacent nonrecreational struggles specified arsenic high-profile wage negotiations, has surely made them admit the fantastic acquisition they had backmost then.

"It wholly formed who I was. It was axenic joy," Aniston gushed to the mag astir her clip connected the series. "I looked guardant to it each day. I couldn't hold to get to work. I couldn't hold to spot those people. I couldn't hold to work the scripts — we'd sprout the amusement each Friday night, and close aft we wrapped, we'd find the caller publication for Monday greeting successful our dressing room. I was conscionable arsenic excited to find retired what was going to hap arsenic I'm definite the assemblage was."

The afloat cast, including Perry, famously had an authoritative reunion special, Friends: The Reunion, backmost successful 2021. Last year, Aniston revealed that lawsuit was the last clip she and her costars were each together.

“We did everything we could erstwhile we could,” she told Vanity Fair successful August 2024. “But it astir felt similar we’d been mourning Matthew for a agelong clip due to the fact that his conflict with that illness was a truly hard 1 for him to fight. As hard arsenic it was for each of america and for the fans, there’s a portion of maine that thinks this is better. I’m gladsome he’s retired of that pain."

Aniston, then, has officially near Rachel Green down for bully — but astatine slightest we inactive person the reruns. "People volition accidental that they spell backmost and ticker episodes to assistance their intelligence health," Aniston continued, "that if they’re stressed astir the quality oregon the world, they’ll conscionable beryllium down and ticker a Friends episode. And that’s the eventual compliment.”

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.