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Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow reunited on a virtual call to promote the upcoming Friends reunion and reflect on the hit television series for Variety‘s Actors on Actors feature.

As the two discussed their new projects, Lisa and Jennifer also brought up watching old Friends episodes.

“I love stumbling on a Friends episode,” Jennifer admitted. “This one time I was with Courteney [Cox], and we were trying to find something to reference, an old Friends thing. And then we stumbled on — there’s bloopers online — and we sat there at the computer like two nerds watching these bloopers laughing at ourselves.”

Lisa adds, “I’ve done it too. I’ve done that, hours watching bloopers.”

Lisa also admitted that she borrowed the iconic “My eyes, my eyes” line from Matthew Perry.

“When we’re at Ross’ and we’re seeing Monica and Chandler start undressing each other in front of the window. And then, [I’m like], ‘My eyes! My eyes!’,” she recalled the scene. “That’s how Matthew Perry said things.”

She went on, “I actually asked his permission before we shot it. I was like, ‘I don’t know if you’ve seen the rehearsals, but I’m saying ‘My eyes! My eyes!’ the way you do. So I just need to know that that’s OK with you. If not, I’ll say it a different way.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, go for it.’”

Jennifer added, “I feel like Matthew required us to ask permission when we borrowed Chandler’s cadence. We were like, ‘But it’s flattering.’ I think it’s going to be really fun also when we, if we ever get out of quarantine, get to do our reunion show.”

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If you were wondering what happened to the Cookie Time cookie jar that sat on Monica’s kitchen shelf in Friends, Lisa Kudrow has it!

The 56-year-old actress recalled the funny and cute story about the prop that she ultimately was gifted from the set.

“We’re shooting a scene, years before we were finished, and my line was, ‘Oh! I better get going,’ like, ‘Oh! I’m late, I better get going,’” she explained during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week.

However, Lisa realized that she actually didn’t have a watch and the first thing that she could find that kind of had a clock on it was the cookie jar.

“As the words were coming out, I went, ‘Oh, good. There’s a clock,’” Lisa continued. “I gestured to that, and said, ‘Oh! Look at the time. I gotta get going,’ and during shooting, Matthew [Perry] said, ‘Did you look at the cookie jar and say look at the time?’”

Then, when they wrapped the series, Matthew gifted her with the jar, to remember the improvised line.

“I think the first thing I asked was, ‘This was so nice, did you get permission?’ I mean, my car used to get searched every night when I left,” she shared.

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If you missed it, Lisa also opened up about her excitement for the Friends reunion special.

Lisa Kudrow is opening up about the upcoming Friends reunion special.

The 56-year-old actress, who played Phoebe Buffay on the smash hit sitcom, opened up in an interview with ET‘s Nischelle Turner about the upcoming HBO Max special.

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“I can’t wait for it to happen. The six of us haven’t been in a room together in front of people in 25 years and only once a few years ago, privately for dinner…I can only imagine. It’s gonna be fun. I mean, it’ll be really fun,” she said.

“To be honest, I think when it moved to Netflix and it did so well on Netflix…That’s why Mart and David are so great. [Friends co-creators] Marta Kauffman and David Crane, they knew what they were doing,” she said of their reunion.

She recently revealed she didn’t know this was real while filming her new show…

Lisa Kudrow is full admitting that she did not know that Space Force, the newest branch of the United States’ Military was an actual real thing.

The series, which will launch on Netflix next week, is a satircal comedy based on the branch, which President Donald Trump announced in 2018, and just recently, revealed the flag for.

“I had no idea,” Lisa told Entertainment Weekly. “I really did not know that the president said, ‘Let’s have a Space Force.’ I mean, I just can’t keep up, so I missed that one. ”

She adds that when she was approached to star in the project, “it was just, ‘We’re doing the show, why don’t you do it?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah! Of course! Why wouldn’t I?’ It’s Greg [Daniels] and Steve [Carell]. And then he said, ‘Yeah, John Malkovich is in it,’ and I was like, ‘Oh wow!’”

“But sorry, dumbass here didn’t know there was actually a Space Force,” Lisa continued, “It’s so embarrassing because when I saw the last State of the Union and he mentioned Space Force, I went, ‘Oh! It’s a real thing!’ The whole time we’re shooting, it didn’t come up.”

She went on, “I think everybody assumed I knew it was a real thing. I usually keep up with what’s going on, but to me there’s so much — and sometimes I don’t know what’s a joke and what isn’t. I don’t mean with this show, I mean in life — that I missed it.”

The logo for the sixth military branch was recently unveiled and a lot of people had some funny things to say about it.

Lisa Kudrow is opening up about the precautions she took at her mothers’ funeral, which happened at the end of February, just as the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing was rising.

The 56-year-old actress and producer talked with THR about what life is like now and shared that she was “the one who asked the rabbi to please let everyone know there was to be no hugging because we were all in an emergency room with her.”

Lisa added that having that request was a very hard decision for her.

“I’m a freak and all I could think that whole day was there has to be coronavirus here,” she says. “Some people [understood] and most people were just looking at me like I was a monster when I’d take two steps back, put up my hands and say, ‘Hi, thanks for coming.’”

Lisa went on, explaining that the request was something that broke her heart to do, but was necessary to happen.

“I just couldn’t bear it if I got someone sick,” Lisa added. “From that moment on, I just acted like I’ve got it, so what do I need to do?”

Despite not hugging, Lisa did recall getting sick afterwards.

“If I did [have coronavirus], then it was really mild. I know I was sick two days after the funeral, but there was no testing because it was a mild fever and I felt like I just had a cold,” she said. “Or I was just drained. So how do you know? But a couple family members did feel sick with the flu and it could have been a flu — but that was early March and there was absolutely no testing.”

If you missed it, Lisa recently opened up about what Friends would look like today.

Lisa Kudrow is addressing the criticism around the lack of diversity on Friends.

During a new interview, the 56-year-old actress who played Phoebe Buffay, was asked what changes would be made if the show had be shot in the current day and age.

“It would not be an all-white cast, for sure,” Lisa shared with the Times in the U.K. “But, to me, [Friends] should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong.”

Lisa added that for the ’90s, she thinks Friends was quite “progressive.”

“There was a guy whose wife discovered she was gay and pregnant, and they raised the child together,” Lisa explained. “We had surrogacy, too. It was, at the time, progressive.”

After all these years, Lisa thinks that Friends is still relevant to fans today.

“Yes, it’s a fun comedy, but it’s also about people connecting, and part of what appeals about it now is that young people have this unconscious nostalgia for personal connection,” Lisa said. “And not just right now during the pandemic, but before that.”

Find out what Lisa Kudrow also said about the upcoming Friends reunion!

Lisa Kudrow knows exactly what Phoebe Buffay would be doing in quarantine.

Speaking with The Sunday Times, the 56-year-old former Friends star revealed that Phoebe would be making her entire family embrace art.

“I feel like if they’d had kids she would be militaristic about creating art,” she shared. “So their place would be overrun with huge, outlandish projects.”

Lisa also opened up about the upcoming Friends reunion special, talking about the event would bring back a lot of memories for her, and the fans.

“No audience has seen us together since the show was over. We will reminisce, talk about what was going on behind the scenes. It’s not us playing our characters. It’s not an episode. It’s not scripted. It’s six of us coming together for the first time in I don’t know how long,” Lisa shared.

She added that she’s really “looking forward to it, because I think that I remember things, but then I talk to Matt [LeBlanc] or Jennifer [Aniston], and they remember everything. It’s really fun.”

HBO Max just announced when the Friends reunion special would be taping, after a few filming setbacks.