Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston: We nearly fell in love very seriously as we played the lovers' league in 'Friends'

A true love story almost arose between David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston at the start of filming the series "Friends", in which they assumed the roles of the famous lovers Ross and Rachel, according to what the two actors revealed during a special episode about this series that gathered its stars and a number of celebrities and is now available on the HBO Max platform. »As of Thursday.

"In Season 1, I was very attracted to Jane," David Schwimmer said in a panel discussion featuring the six main actors. "It was reciprocal," Aniston replied. This attraction did not go unnoticed by other "friends", as Matthew Perry (Chandler) and Courtney Cox (Monica) admit.

"But it was like two boats meeting up because one of us was still in another relationship," the New York actor added. “We never got past that. We respect that ».

As for the actress who won an Emmy award for the role of Rachel in 2002, she said, "I remember telling David, 'It would be really unfortunate if we had our first kiss on television.'"

"And of course our first kiss was at this cafe," which became famous, "Central Burke," in the seventh episode of the second season, Aniston added. "So, we invested our love and our love in Ross and Rachel," she said.

The special episode of "Friends" was full of a group of other anecdotes and anecdotes, especially about the relationship between Monica and Chandler.

The creator of the series, David Crane, said, "It was originally planned to break in love in London," but it was supposed to be a "short story", referring to the final episode of Season Four, in which Monica and Chandler end up in the same bed.

But the screenwriters were astonished during the filming of the series, which was taking place in front of spectators, at the reaction of the audience, which was elated for more than 20 seconds when Monica came out from under the sheets.

"We realized that more could definitely be done and we had to pay attention to it," said Marta Kaufman, co-creator of the series.

And in a more serious tone, Matthew Perry briefly told about the difficulties he encountered during filming.

"I felt I would die if the audience didn't laugh," he said.

"It is clear that this is not healthy," he added.

"She never told us that," answered Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), amazed. The actor, who has suffered for a long time from drug and alcohol addiction, repeated that he was now freed from it, "I used to feel it all the days" of filming.

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