Jennifer Aniston Reveals What ‘Blue Bloods’ Star Tom Selleck Is Like To Work Alongside With

Jul 02, 2021 by apost team

One of the most popular sitcoms of all time, “Friends” brought laughter to audiences for ten years. The show was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and ran from 1994 to 2004 on NBC. The series stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. The cast reunited in 2021 to film a reunion special for HBO Max.

“Friends” revolves around the lives of six friends living in New York City. In the beginning, Rachel Green, played by Aniston, flees her wedding. She seeks out her childhood friend, Monica Gellar, portrayed by Cox, and the two rekindle their friendship and move in together. Kudrow appears as the eccentric member of the group, Phoebe Buffay. 

Working on the show for so many years allowed the cast to form real friendships, and they are still close with each other to this day. During their years together on “Friends,” the cast banded together to ensure everyone was treated, and paid, equally. This type of camaraderie is not particularly common in Hollywood and really sets this show apart from the rest. 

Like with any workplace, there are sometimes coworkers we don’t get along with. This can be challenging as an actor because you have to work so closely with your castmates. There was one guest on “Friends” who made a very bad impression, and Aniston opened up about the topic to Howard Stern on his podcast in June 2021. Read on to find out more about this difficult guest star and how Aniston handled the situation.

On The Howard Stern Show, Aniston, Cox and Kudrow gave an interview opening up about their time on “Friends.” One thing that came up was how the cast banded together and fought to all be paid equally. “We’re all doing the exact same amount of work,” Aniston explained. “I wouldn’t have felt comfortable knowing I was making more.”

Cox added, “We all felt that way. I thought it was the most important thing—as we all did—that we all were equal in every single way. That was the first time that people had all stuck together in a cast. I think it was scary, probably, for productions after that.” When the show first began in 1994, Cox was the most well-known, and highest paid, cast member.

Despite being the most famous in the beginning, Cox was only interested in helping her costars. “I think Courteney had a lot to do with it, too, because she was the most well-known. When we got there she was like, ‘Let’s help each other if you think something’s funny, let’s give each other notes,’” Kudrow explained.

Making sure everyone was treated and paid equally made the cast members incredibly close, and they knew they could trust one another. Kudrow also shared with Stern, “It just got rid of bitterness. It was such a great relationship that is really rare and really lucky.”

Working so closely with genuine friends over 10 years made the cast into better people. Aniston said, “It was healing. We actually kind of parented and healed and loved each other.”

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Because the group worked so well together, it was very obvious when a guest star did not fit in with the others. This was the case when one mystery man appeared on the series for a few episodes.

"It was as if they were just too 'above' this, to be on a sitcom,” Aniston told Stern. “And I remember when we were doing a network run-through, the network and the producers would just laugh. And this person would be like, 'Listen to them, just laughing at their own jokes. So stupid, not even funny,'"

This type of behavior was frustrating to the original cast, although Aniston said the actor tried to make amends after the fact. "The funny thing is, that male did apologize about their behavior years later, and just said, 'I was so nervous, to be honest, that I wasn't on my best behavior,' It was just like, 'What are you doing here? Your attitude, this is not what we're all about. This is a wonderful, warm place to be, and you're coming into our home,” Aniston explained.

Stern asked the women if the mystery star was Tom Selleck. "It was Tom," Aniston joked. "You just don't know how cruel and unusual he is.”

Then she added with seriousness, “Tom has an angel's halo over his head, it's just a permanent halo over Tom's head." The rude guest star wasn’t Selleck, so the true identity of this mystery man will have to remain unsolved.

Aniston ended the interview with this sentiment: "It's still, to me, one of the greatest jobs I've ever had. It goes so beyond the work and what the show was, which was just a spectacular phenomenon, but the friendships and family that came out of it is just - you can't put words to that. It's priceless."

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