It does not seem that Michelle Houllebecq had seen the reunion of the cast of

Friends

when she assured that nostalgia is never linked to a memory of happiness.

If he had done so, he would have had to change the statement in the first minute of the 105 that the special program that HBO premieres worldwide this Thursday lasts.

Because as soon as the door is opened for the first time, it is precisely those two feelings that begin to intertwine.

Anyone who has not seen it can stop here, turn on the television and in an hour and 40 minutes come back to this point. Here these lines will be waiting for you, without moving from place to place. That place is number 90 Betford Street, in New York, where as soon as they put their feet

the first thing that came out of the eyes of Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston were tears

. The beginning and the end of this reunion 27 years later: crying.

Because if there is something in

Friends: The Reunion, it

is tears that are mixed with smiles. In short, nostalgia. "It is the initial shock of being together in the same room", state the six protagonists of a

sitcom

with 236 episodes, six years in a row at number one, millionaire audiences, translated into 18 languages ​​and with more than 100 billion reproductions on platforms (North American metric). And since 2004,

Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey and Rachel are

back together.

"Where is everyone? I want to see everyone."

Is

David Schwimmer

the first to reach the apartment where the six friends shared ten years of recording.

A few minutes later, wish granted.

By his side are

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt Leblanc, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow

to remember their years of

Friends,

fame, love and complicity.

But how did NBC manage to put together a cast that, according to information at the time, ended up making a million dollars per episode in the final seasons?

To answer the question on the screen, the creators

David Crane and Marta Kauffman

, in charge of the afternoon,

parade

.

Not easy, by the way.

Schwimmer had to be persuaded not to abandon television as he intended; Kudrow did nothing of what was asked of him, "he got through it all"; Cox arrived despite the fact that they did not want stars in the series; Leblanc appeared with his nose almost broken because he had drunk the night before, but no one had his grace, and Perry and Aniston had his presence

welcomed

in two other

sitcoms

,

but they ended up being disregarded by

Friends.

"I saw these five people, I went to the other series and asked that they let me go because I wanted to stay here.

The producer told me that

Friends was

not going to make me a star,

" recalls Anniston.

An accurate eye for prediction, no doubt.

Because the fame of this

sitcom,

according to the creators, came in the second season and they found out at an airport.

As the actors began to notice that people stopped them, Kauffman and Crane saw during a trip in an airport store that all the covers of the magazines were taken by their protagonist cast, even that of the

Rolling Stones

with the six together.

But there was another key moment: Chandler and Monica's first mess.

"We saw how people reacted, we knew we had to give them a bad time and as it was the end of the season we had time to ruminate on it." Thus was born one of the most remembered couples in the history of television. Because in that, in setting moments in the collective memory,

Friends

is the queen. Almost three decades later, every fan remembers phrases from Joey, the song

Smelly Cats,

Joey and Chandler's sofa talks or the trivia of the six friends. All of this remembered in this reunion with the occasional stellar appearance. More dose of nostalgia.

Because it is the actors themselves who are in charge of feeding that feeling, remembering that they do not have daily contact but are always "available" for the rest on the other side of the phone; that for the first two years they ate every day together, "even on weekends," or reminiscing about the love between Aniston and Schwimmer.

"We all knew that you were meant for each other, there was nothing you could do

,

"

recall his co-stars.

But not everything is happiness and nostalgia because Lisa Kudrow and Matthew Perry also confess that there are seasons of the series that they have not managed to see in their entirety and that even their teenage children enjoy them more than they do.

"I do not believe my interpretation because I know who I am and what I am doing," complements Matt Leblanc before reaching the end.

"It was not only the end of a series, it was the end of 10 years of relationship," conclude the creators and protagonists, who with the images of the last episode and the farewell return to tears because, according to what they say, when the cameras were turned off their hearts were broken "to pieces".

And 27 years later they got back together again.

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