{"id":126935,"date":"2024-09-23T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/courteney-cox-says-friends-reboot-would-be-too-hard-to-recreate\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:01:33","slug":"courteney-cox-says-friends-reboot-would-be-too-hard-to-recreate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/courteney-cox-says-friends-reboot-would-be-too-hard-to-recreate\/","title":{"rendered":"Courteney Cox says Friends reboot would be too &#8216;hard&#8217; to recreate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-09-23\" datetime=\"1727085693\" pubdate=\"\">23 September 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/courteney-cox\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,courteney-cox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Courteney Cox<\/a> can&#8217;t imagine a reboot of &#8216;Friends&#8217; happening.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Courteney Cox says a &#8216;Friends&#8217; reboot wouldn&#8217;t be the same<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old actress starred as Monica Geller in the iconic sitcom &#8211; which ran for a decade from 1994 to 2004, and followed the lives of a group of friends living in New York City &#8211; and she finds it &#8220;hard&#8221; to envisage the programme being re-done.<\/p>\n<p>The group also included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jennifer-aniston\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jennifer-aniston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a> as Rachel Green, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, and the late Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing.<\/p>\n<p>And the show&#8217;s creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane recently revealed they keep getting pitched ideas of a reboot involving their children.<\/p>\n<p>Courteney reacted in an interview with PEOPLE: &#8220;It\u2019s hard to try to redo anything.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Anything with &#8216;re&#8217; in front of it with this group\u2026 I think it&#8217;s so special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actress cannot believe the show is celebrating its 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;It&#8217;s just insane to me because it feels like time, it goes so fast and I don&#8217;t realise it.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We used to say, &#8216;Oh, I can&#8217;t wait for this month&#8217; or &#8216;god, it feels like forever.&#8217; I would never say that line anymore.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Scream&#8217; actress is forever &#8220;grateful&#8221; that \u2018Friends\u2019 has stood the test of time &#8211; and declared Monica is very much &#8220;alive and well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;That show is incredible. Every joke holds up, all the characters are just so amazing, and we [had] the best writers in the world. I&#8217;m lucky that it continues on through all the generations. And that&#8217;s very fortunate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDavid and Marta admitted fans have been begging for a reboot.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe former said: &#8220;I would imagine it\u2019s kind of what it must feel like when your kid turns 30 and you\u2019re like, \u2018How did that happen?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMarta added: &#8220;We get that a lot. I get emails about it all the time. Everybody has a great idea, and the great idea is: their kids, grown up, doing a &#8216;Friends&#8217; show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking previously about how fans could celebrate Matthew &#8211; who died in October 2023 from the \u201cacute effects&#8221; of ketamine aged 54 &#8211; for the show&#8217;s 30th reunion, Marta told The Times: &#8220;Two things come to mind [about how to celebrate him]: one of them is to donate to drug treatment centres \u2014 let\u2019s fight the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And the second way is to watch &#8216;Friends&#8217; and remember him not as a man who died like that but as a man who was hilariously funny and brought joy to everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/courteney-cox-says-friends-reboot-hard-recreate-1406713.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 September 2024 Courteney Cox can&#8217;t imagine a reboot of &#8216;Friends&#8217; happening. 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