Lisa Kudrow on which ‘Friends’ reunion guest shocked her

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The hotly predicted “Friends” reunion particular, which hits HBO Max on Thursday, May well 27, was “emotional” to film, Lisa Kudrow claimed. 

“It was every emotion,” Kudrow, fifty seven, advised the Put up. “It was a great deal of laughing and then serious blubbering — which, I really don’t know if that will be in there, but the puffy eyes are in there, so which is superior. It was an emotionally exhausting and fantastic couple times.”

Named “Friends: The Reunion,” the particular reunites the stars of the hit sitcom, which aired from 1994-2004 on NBC. The particular was at first scheduled to be component of HBO Max’s start in May well of 2020 — but after getting delayed by the pandemic, it’s eventually premiering a single yr later on. 

Kudrow, who rose to fame starring as the eccentric Phoebe Buffay, will be joined by Jennifer Aniston who performed trend-ahead Rachel, Courteney Cox, who performed uptight Monica, Matt LeBlanc, who performed flirty Joey, Matthew Perry, who performed sarcastic Chandler, and David Schwimmer, who performed neurotic Ross. 

The cast associates won’t appear in character, Kudrow claimed. 

“It’s totally unscripted. It is us observing each other and they rebuilt the sets on [the show’s unique Warner Bros soundstage] Phase 24. It is completed truly effectively, too. But it’s us, and also just cutting close to — there are clips and items.”

For occasion, Kudrow claimed, the cast will be viewing some online video footage chronicling their time on the sequence that they hadn’t noticed right before. 

“It turns out [a crew member] was taking home films that I didn’t know about, and that was amazing [to see]. There’s so significantly fantastic things.”

In the particular, the core cast will reunite on the iconic “Friends” sets this sort of as the gang’s infamous espresso shop dangle-out location Central Perk, Monica and Rachel’s improbably spacious purple-walled apartment, and Joey and Chandler’s bachelor pad — finish with their reclining chairs. 

As HBO Max has declared, they’ll also be joined by a staggering who’s who of popular visitors, together with David Beckham, BTS, James Corden, Cara Delevingne, Girl Gaga, Kit Harington, Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon, Malala Yousafzai, and more. 

“There’s just a great deal of surprises — like, items we weren’t anticipating,” claimed Kudrow. “People displaying up that we were being surprised by. There’s a great deal heading on in it.” 

Some of the particular visitors were being notably shocking to the “Friends” cast. 

“I was like, ‘Wait, which is Justin Bieber. Suitable? Would he be here? Is he here? He’s truly here which is Justin Bieber!” claimed Kudrow. “That was kind of exciting. I’m throwing in a ‘kind of’ so that I appear to be a little cooler. It was exciting. I really don’t get enthusiastic about assembly men and women — but Justin Bieber, he’s exciting.”

Kudrow claimed she’s grateful that “Friends” created its cast popular in the ‘90s and early 2000s. 

“I feel we’re often happy about the way items happened when they did. Mainly because if it were being now, it would be overpowering with social media and every thing else. But even in the ‘90s you had to make an exertion like ‘Don’t search yourself up on the online! You won’t like it.’”