With the wave of 1990s TV shows revival that has been going on this year, you would expect for the epic ‘Friends’ series to come back. But there’s no way that’s going to happen, as Matthew Perry is definitely not interested. Just the thought of it gives him nightmares – literally.
“Will & Grace,” “Roseanne,” even “Twin Peaks.” There’s this nostalgia going on around the ‘90s shows. But Perry isn’t so convinced about bringing ‘Friends’ back.
“I have this recurring nightmare — I’m not kidding about this,” the actor, who played Chandler Bing in the series, told Variety. “When I’m asleep, I have this nightmare that we do ‘Friends’ again and nobody cares. We do a whole series, we come back, and nobody cares about it.”
Although many would disagree with that, Perry’s got a point to say no to a ‘Friends’ reunion: “If anybody asks me, I’m gonna say no. The thing is, we ended on such a high. We can’t beat it. Why would we go and do it again?”
Perry is not the only one who thinks that way
Someone else in the cast of the situational comedy that aired on NBC from 1994 to 2004 thinks the same as Perry. Jennifer Aniston totally shares his views on not filming any new ‘Friends’ episodes.
The acclaimed actress, who portrayed Rachel Green throughout the series, isn’t interested in adapting ‘Friends’ to 2017. In an interview with Lorraine Kelly last year, she said that she’s not sure what the cast would do, because when recording the show, there were no cell phones around all the time, with Facebook and Instagram waiting to be refreshed.
“We were in a room together, or at a coffee shop together, and we were talking and having conversations. And we’ve lost that,” the 48-year-old actress said.
In a previous interview, she joked that if the television series were created today, there would be no conversations or anything, just people staring at their iPhones.
Perry is currently working on an off-Broadway play
The actor has had many other TV projects since the end of ‘Friends.’ He’s acted in ‘The Odd Couple,’ ‘Mr. Sunshine’ and ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.’
But at the current time, he’s focusing on another project – a much more personal one. He’s starring in a play he wrote himself, called ‘The End of Longing.’
He told Variety that he has been writing for over 10 years, but he had never written alone. He did the dialogues while someone else helped him with the story. But a couple of years ago, he sat by himself and started writing. What started as a series of monologs became a play after realizing how theatrical the content was.
He also shared that the play is a really personal story, but focuses on an exaggerated version of himself. He said the play intends to deliver two messages: “The main one is that there’s a popular notion out there that people don’t change, but I don’t believe that’s true. All of the characters in this play change and become better. That’s a big message. And also, I try to use humor as a device to tell a story about addiction and how difficult it is to overcome,” referring to his past struggles with Vicodin and alcohol.