Lisa Kudrow has published the cast of Associates only had one group dinner after the show ended in 2004.
For the length of an interview for the Dinner’s on Me podcast on Tuesday, host Jesse Tyler Ferguson asked the actress what it was like to salvage reduction alongside alongside with her co-stars for the 2021 reunion special.
In response, Lisa explained that it was the fundamental time that she and her outmoded sitcom colleagues – Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer – had all met up in over a decade.
“It was so good,” she said of the reunion. “We’d only had dinner the six of us once before since the show ended.”
Jesse then asked, “How soon after the show?”
To which Lisa spoke back, “Ten years!”
“It was like we didn’t miss a beat,” she persisted, adding: “Just us at someone’s house and had dinner and didn’t miss a beat.”
Lisa went on to repeat on Matthew’s loss of life from the extreme effects of ketamine on the age of 54 in October 2023.
“It shook us up, I have to say,” the 61-year-damaged-down insisted. “I mean, he said, ‘It won’t be a surprise, but it will be a shock.’ And that was exactly right. He’s so smart, like, how did he know? So smart. That is true, it wasn’t a surprise, but it was a shock. It was a big jolt. I think, personally, I think he died happy. I think in the days around his passing, he was happy and excited about what’s happening next.”
In other locations within the conversation, Lisa mighty that she began to seek opt out episodes of Associates to reduction her navigate disaster.
“God forbid anybody walk into my house and saw me watching my show, I’d be mortified,” she joked. “But after Matthew passed away, there were marathons, and I wanted to watch. It felt like part of the remembering, grieving, remembering, all that, and just enjoying, and celebrating. And, boy, I appreciated everybody on it.”
Lisa is currently promoting her original TV sequence, No Honest Deed. The dark comedy, moreover starring Ray Romano, premieres on Netflix on Thursday.
