Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman pours water on reunion rumours: 'Why mess up a good thing?'
Jennifer Aniston has expressed interest in bringing show back
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Your support makes all the difference.Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman has offered her opinion on a potential reunion, saying it would be a mistake to bring the show back.
Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green throughout the sitcom’s 10 seasons, has said she would be willing to reprise the role for a possible reunion.
She has also claimed that her cast mates Courteney Cox (Monica Geller) and Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay) would be open to participating as well.
But Kauffman doesn’t seem to share Aniston’s enthusiasm. Asked about a possible reunion, she told the AP: ”Why mess up a good thing?
“We wouldn’t want a reunion to disappoint fans.”
Earlier this week, Aniston told the Today show that Rachel and her partner Ross Geller (David Schwimmer), who finally got together in the 2004 finale after a decade of will-they-won’t-they, would still be a couple today and that their daughter Emma would now be in high school.
In an earlier appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’s show, Aniston said she would be “OK” to do a Friends reunion, adding: “I told you this. I would do it. The girls would do it and the boys would do it, I’m sure. Anything could happen.”
Kauffman, who co-created Friends with David Crane, has expressed concern in the past that a reunion would run the risk of disappointing viewers.
She has also suggested the sitcom’s premise would no longer make sense.
“One, the show is about a time in your life when your friends are your family. It’s not that time anymore,” she told Rolling Stone in March.
“All we’d be doing is putting those six actors back together, but the heart of the show would be gone. Two, I don’t know what good it does us. The show is doing just fine, people love it. [A reunion] could only disappoint.”
Additional reporting by agencies
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