Jennifer Aniston was overcome with emotion when she and her fellow Friends co-stars filmed the recent reunion episode.It was a delight for fans to see all six actors — Jennifer, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and Davis Schwimmer — come together.There were plenty of tender moments during the special as well as many funny moments.
For Jennifer, she was transported back to the time when she was Rachel Green — but it wasn’t a place she had prepared to go back to.There were many reasons for this as the past came flooding back to her, having to think about the hard times she endured in her personal life while filming.
‘You get there and it’s like, “Oh right, I hadn’t thought about what was going on the last time I was actually here”,’ she told The Hollywood Reporter.Jennifer added: ‘And it just took me by surprise because it was like, “Hi, past, remember me? Remember how that sucked? You thought everything was in front of you and life was going to be just gorgeous and then you went through maybe the hardest time in your life?”‘
‘You get there and it’s like, “Oh right, I hadn’t thought about what was going on the last time I was actually here”.’ Pic: Jennifer Aniston/InstagramThe final episode of Friends aired in May, 2004 — and just eight months later she would announce her split from then-husband Brad Pitt.Speaking about the reunion, Jennifer said the experience was ‘all very jarring’ and she had to take breaks during filming so she could walk off set.Of course, you’ve got cameras everywhere and I’m already a little emotionally accessible, I guess you could say, so I had to walk out at certain points. I don’t know how they cut around it. Time travel is hard,’ the actress explained.
Speaking about the reunion, Jennifer said the experience was ‘all very jarring’ and she had to take breaks during filming so she could walk off set. Pic: Paul Drinkwater/NBCU PH๏τo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty ImagesJennifer reckons that her emotions were stirred by ‘more personal stuff that [she] had expectations about that sort of shape-shifted, so to speak’.Jennifer continued: ‘That was what was jarring, that we all had an idea of what the future was going to be and we were going to go hunker down and focus on this or that and then it all just changed overnight, and that was it.’But again, everything’s a blessing if you’re able to look at life’s ups and downs in that way. And if it all hadn’t happened, I would not be sitting here the woman that I am.’