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Friends reunion...

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Timeisavirtue · 24/05/2021 22:58

For all of you uk friends fans out there if your not already aware , the friends reunion is on Thursday at 8pm on sky one.
Just a bit of fun...
who’s your favourite character and what’s your favourite epsiode?
Mines chandler...
And I love the episode with all the kissing, when chandler kisses Monica in front of Rachel and phoebe and then has to kiss them too as to not let them know he’s in a relationship with Monica. Cracks me up everytime 🤭😄

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happinessischocolate · 30/05/2021 15:07

I was obsessed with MP in my youth, he is such a mess. All the others went on and did other work, married, had children. I can’t remember seeing him in anything else apart from 17 Again.

MP has done other work, he's just does more tv than films.

MLB, DS and CC are all divorced with 1 child, JA has divorced twice and no kids, LK is the only one who is still married and has 1 child, so MP who has never divorced but who is currently engaged is hardly a failure at relationships compared to the others

happinessischocolate · 30/05/2021 15:11

@Delatron

Do we think it’s too much filler for JA/CC?

Lisa Kudrow is 57. She looks great. Are we thinking she has no work/subtle work/ better work.

What’s with the crush thing for JA/DS? Really? Who were they both with at the time? Not Brad Pitt?

MLB with his lack of Botox and fillers was the most real one there, I think his reaction of "bullshit" to the JA and DS crushing on each other but not doing anything about it was also very real. 🤷‍♀️
Delatron · 30/05/2021 15:17

Yes @happinessischocolate MLB was my favourite. Interesting he called ‘bullshit’!

covetingthepreciousthings · 30/05/2021 15:32

I find it quite amazing it went for a decade and seemingly there were no major fall outs between the cast, I would be more surprised if the cast hadn't had crushes on each other - I definitely can believe the DS / JA stuff, the behind the scene stuff of them cuddling between takes etc seemed v real.

It was too early for her to be with Brad Pitt I think they got together around '98.

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 30/05/2021 16:00

She was with Tate Donavon for a couple of years before Pitt but even that seems a bit late. Presumably it was no one famous since they weren't really known in the industry for long at that point.

PhillipPhillop · 30/05/2021 16:06

LK 57! Wow! Looks amazing

Rosewood017 · 30/05/2021 16:38

Didn't DS go out with Natalie Imbruglia for a while? Probably after season 1 though!

I wonder if they would ever look at a Friends next generation spin-off - with Ben, Emma, the triplets and twins.. and whoever Phoebe & Mike went on to have. Maybe Janice's kids Grin

Passiveobserver · 30/05/2021 17:05

My favourite character has to be Ross, so many great moments and such great acting.
But all of them together = magic x

covetingthepreciousthings · 30/05/2021 18:01

@Rosewood017

Didn't DS go out with Natalie Imbruglia for a while? Probably after season 1 though!

I wonder if they would ever look at a Friends next generation spin-off - with Ben, Emma, the triplets and twins.. and whoever Phoebe & Mike went on to have. Maybe Janice's kids Grin

Yes I think he did! Also apparently Tina Barrett from S Club 7. Grin
rc22 · 30/05/2021 18:12

I've just started watching and have noticed there is so much filler on CC and JA's faces. LK looks great and so much more natural.

covetingthepreciousthings · 30/05/2021 18:18

@rc22

I've just started watching and have noticed there is so much filler on CC and JA's faces. LK looks great and so much more natural.
I might be wrong but I think CC had a lot of filler but actually got it all dissolved, I think her face is just left how it is after that procedure. As I say I might be wrong, but I think she regretted getting so much as decided to try age more naturally.
ChessieFL · 30/05/2021 18:41

I think CC started getting work done while she was still in Friends. Her lips look very different in the last couple of series compared to earlier series. However at that stage she hadn’t had too much so still looked good.

Andylion · 30/05/2021 19:43

I thought Jen looked fantastic. Hmm

Ross was always my favourite. I thought both he and CC were great at physical comedy.

janlevinson · 30/05/2021 20:13

@Delatron

Do we think it’s too much filler for JA/CC?

Lisa Kudrow is 57. She looks great. Are we thinking she has no work/subtle work/ better work.

What’s with the crush thing for JA/DS? Really? Who were they both with at the time? Not Brad Pitt?

JA went out with Tate Donovan for years and also Paul Rudd for a bit. I read somewhere that she and DS had an on/off "thing" for 4 years until she married BP.
covetingthepreciousthings · 30/05/2021 20:29

I think both JA and DS are single currently.. so maybe the reunion might make them rethink things and go on a date..

Rosewood017 · 30/05/2021 21:04

@covetingthepreciousthings Tina from S Club!? Loving this thread.

I think my favourite character has changed through the years. Loved Chandler as a teen but he lost a bit of sass when he got with Monica. Ross probably now, he's a great physical actor.. didn't like how he tried to stop Rachel going to Paris but his scenes are so engaging.

Favourite episode is the one where everybody finds out. But from the early years I loved the one with the blackout!

covetingthepreciousthings · 30/05/2021 21:38

@Rosewood017

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/s-club-tinas-schwimming-lessons-1600120

trancepants · 30/05/2021 22:54

@rc22

I've just started watching and have noticed there is so much filler on CC and JA's faces. LK looks great and so much more natural.
I've got to say LK looks like an aged Pheobe. I don't mean that in a bad way. She looks older, as she is, and she looks like herself. Undoubtedly she's wearing heavy tv make-up over good primer and the signs of her being older than she was are there. The naso-labial lines, the slight jowlyness of her cheeks and neck which is to be expected in a woman nearing 60. But she still looks like the same person. Neither CC nor JA have deep lines, they don't have any jowliness, their skin is tight around their necks and jawbones. But it doesn't look good. JA looks better than CC but they both look slightly inhuman from certain angles. They both look unnatural. And one of the things that struck me was in some of the promo photos from the start of the series, CC's face was more lined when she smiled at 30 than it is now nearly 30 years on.

I have to say that as a woman in my 40s who's lines are deepening and growing, or appearing in brand new places, along with the beginnings of cheek drooping. I have occasionally started to wonder about fillers or some sort of procedure or two to turn the clock back a little. But fuck it. Looking at those three women, I know which of them I'd rather look like in 15 years time. I'd rather have the deeper lines and jowliness when I'm not smiling than be smooth and droopless but not quite right.

RacMonPhoChaRosJoe · 30/05/2021 23:55

I wonder if part of the problem with the fillers is that we normally see still shots. So you don’t get quite such a sense of how unnatural it is for the skin to be so taut when they are speaking, if that makes sense.

Without commenting on anybody in particular, it is a huge shame that society in general, and then especially the entertainment industry, cannot accept ageing naturally. Not everybody is lucky enough to get to see their 50’s and 60’s. It should be celebrated!

(Apart from wiry grey hairs. Those little bastards can get dyed and smoothed down to the far side of fuck Grin.)

janlevinson · 31/05/2021 07:19

Not sure it's just fillers and Botox tbh. Looks more like a facelift, especially JA.

EachandEveryone · 31/05/2021 09:22

Same with Reese Witherspoon has she had no work or just food work? SJP is another one who comes to mind she looks very good but her face moves. It will be interesting when the SATC remake comes out to see how they have changed.

MadameOvary81 · 31/05/2021 09:32

Lisa Kudrow has been moved right to the top of my laminate list. ;)

But what was the deal with JA sitting on her phone reading emails whilst MP was speaking candidly about his feelings. They were filming a TV show due to be watched by millions, not sitting in Costa having a catch up! Only Lisa seemed to genuinely respond to him. No bloody wonder he was so quiet and subdued the whole time.

PhillipPhillop · 31/05/2021 09:32

This is from last year's Emmy awards and JA looks a bit odd but I don't know why.

Friends reunion...
MadameOvary81 · 31/05/2021 09:41

@PhillipPhillop I'm no plastic surgery expert but i'd say too many fillers has made her puffy and it looks like she's had an eye lift...they seem too tight. It's given her that cat-like appearance that they all get and if she doesn't sack it, she'll end up looking like Madonna.

trancepants · 31/05/2021 09:47

Lisa Kudrow is in a selfie here either without make-up or in very light make-up and looking at it, I think it's pretty unlikely that she has had much or tbh, any work done on her face. The really, really fucked up thing is, these people are all tv and film actors. Having an expressive face is a huge part of their work. The very best actors all have the ability to look sad or pensive while smiling, to run through a range of emotions and/or thoughts in a few seconds while the camera is focussed on them. Being able to let an audience know their character is having intense or complicated feelings just by small adjustments to their facial expression is a really important part of their job. And all these facial procedures hinder that ability to really communicate in all the ways they need to.

I know the tv/film industry is insanely shallow but how the hell has it come to a place where women in particular, but also increasingly men, so often feel it's necessary to inhibit their ability to do their bloody job? Why aren't directors and producers actually saying no, do not do that. You are 40, 50, 60, or however old they are. You are better to look your age and be able to move your face. Christ, let them push non-invasive tactics like dermarolling, facial massage and exercises, advice about supplements, diet and sleep, etc. But how can the people who make the shows and movies not very, very strongly tell their actors not to ruin their faces?

The same goes for their weight. First Cox and then Aniston became far, far too thin from the middle of Friends onwards. And with Cox in particular it truly impacted her work. Her whole energy changed, the way she moved her limbs became awkward, she had a weird nervous energy and looked deeply unwell a lot of the time, especially in the series where she and Chandler are hiding their relationship. Her weightloss impacted her ability to do her job as well as she had been doing. I also suspect it was part of the reason she started to alter her face as she was so thin her face became long and drawn. Why weren't the people running the show copped on enough to help foster an environment where their actors were encouraged to maintain the healthy looking weights they had at the beginning? Yet, it's very likely the opposite is what happened with the women put under pressure to weigh less and have facial procedures that ultimately made them worse at their jobs.

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