Courteney Cox is 'so excited' for the 'Friends' reunion

If you’ve been sipping oversized coffees, playing foosball nonstop, and singing a little more Rembrandts lately, Courteney Cox feels you. Because as it turns out, after 15 years she’s just as ready as you are for the Friends reunion, and she can’t wait to dig up those memories from her Monica Geller years. In fact, she thinks it’s, “Gonna be fantastic.”The actress said as much when she hit the trails with Kevin Nealon (of SNL fame) for his talk show Hiking With Kevin. There, he grilled the actress about all things Friends as they trekked through the grassy terrain, because what could be more Los Angeles than that? Right now it seems like Cox knows as much about the HBO Max special as fans do; that it will be an unscripted reunion that takes place on the sound stages at Warner Bros. where the show filmed. The cast won’t reprise their iconic characters, but they will come together to talk about them. Cool.[video_embed id='1895552']RELATED: This is not a drill, a Friends reunion is happening[/video_embed]At this point anything that gets the OG six—Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer—in the same room again is an answer to fans’ prayers, especially given all of the other series rebooting and reviving lately. Cox knows it, too.“So the exciting thing is that we’re all going to get together for the first time, in a room, and actually talk about the show, and it’s going to be on HBO Max, and I’m so excited,” she told Nealon. “We’re going to have the best time. It’s going to be great. But we really haven’t all done that and actually sat there and talked about and reminisced about this incredible experience that we had.”HBO Max confirmed the long-swirling (and pretty solid) rumours that a Friends reunion would happen on February 21, announcing the cast would get back together just in time to launch their new streaming service in May. The announcement hit on a Friday, and fans everywhere basically lost their cool over the weekend when they realized their favourite friends really were just on a break.

 

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Naturally, some fans might have been disappointed by the news if they were holding out hope for their favourite characters to return, but the cast has been pretty clear in the past that they have no interest in messing with such an iconic run and potentially ruining it.“I just don’t think it’s possible, given everyone’s different career trajectories,” Schwimmer said in a recent interview with The Guardian. “I think everyone feels the same: Why mess with what felt like the right way to end the series? I don’t want to do anything for the money.”Still, viewers can only hope that when these guys get back together and reminisce about all of the good times they had, maybe they’ll change their minds and be open to some kind of an actual scripted reunion. In the meantime, Cox knows exactly what her perfect reunion would look like IRL.“The ideal for me — and we just actually recently did this, and it took forever. I don’t know how many years it was, maybe 15 years — and we finally all got together and had dinner,” Cox told Nealon. “And when we get together, which is never — it only happened… it just doesn’t happen very often, like twice since we ended the show — it’s just the most fun. We laugh so hard.”Cox is referring to the dinner the cast had together last October, which Aniston captured in her first-ever Instagram post. That post was liked nearly 16 million times, which is only slightly more than the $15 million it supposedly cost to bring the cast together (they’re being paid a reported $2.5 million apiece to do this thing). That doesn’t mean Cox did it for the payday though. Like it does to so many fans out there, Friends meant everything to her.“I was thrilled to be on a show that people actually learned how to speak English because they watched the show,” Cox continued to Nealon. “I mean, it’s just touched so many people’s lives.”And now, thanks to HBO Max, it’s going to touch so many more.[video_embed id='-1']Before you go: Dog and baby are best friends who love spending time together[/video_embed]