Since the renegotiation talks were being reported on in great detail in the press, the Friends cast received some backlash for demanding such large paychecks, with Aniston once saying in an ET interview, "They gave us all a hard time and aren't we bratty little spoiled actors to go in and do whatever it is we did.
And the series finale was watched by To me, that's such a strange question. It's like, well, that's irrelevant. Are you worth it? How do you put a price on how funny something is? If you're in a position in any job, no matter what the job is—if you're driving a milk truck or installing TVs or an upholsterer for a couch—if you're in a position to get a raise and you don't get it, you're stupid.
You know what I mean? We were in a position and we were able to pull it off. Reports back in tried to blame the six-episode cut on Aniston wanting to start a family with then-husband Brad Pitt , with the New York Post reporting at the time that a source had told them, "Brad was really angry when she went back for another year.
It's not like they or anyone else on Friends needs the money But she also wants to keep Brad happy. So Jennifer said she would do one more year, but insisted on only 18 shows and that filming would be done by January. Aniston's rep at the time vehemently denied this claim, releasing a statement that the main cast members all agreed to the filming schedule: "It was to everybody's advantage to be done filming by January.
In an interview with EW , the show's creators revealed they were more than ready to say goodbye and knew heading into season 10 it was the end of Friends after a few seasons of uncertainty. Or season 9. So each of those seasons we had an eye toward, 'Okay, if this is the last year, what are we doing? He continued, "Season 10, we said, 'We can't keep stopping and starting and rethinking everything. The very first thing Crane and Kauffman knew about the series' ending was that Ross and Rachel had to end up together, no questions asked.
However, they did initially consider having the couple end on a slightly more ambiguous note, with Crane admitting, "We did talk about, with Ross and Rachel, a gray area of where they aren't together, but we hint there's a sense that they might be down the road.
But we thought, 'No, if we're going to do it, let's do it. So they did and Rachel got off that plane, with viewers briefly believing Rachel really did chose Paris over Ross, with the co-creators acknowledging they had to try and make the inevitable ending a bit surprising for viewers. I don't think this was about making people happy as much as, 'What's going to be satisfying? As you can imagine, the taping of the series finale featured a whole lot of waterworks, mostly from the cast, long before their final bow.
For Schwimmer, he was able to keep it together until their pre-show ritual huddle, saying, "I started to lose it. That was the moment I was dreading. In a appearance on the Scandinavian talk show Skavlan , LeBlanc admitted, "I had quit smoking and the last episode I started smoking again.
It was very sad. Marvel' Release Date to How To Watch on Peacock. It used to be that the grand finale of a popular show was an event, either for the niche audience that obsessed over it or the mainstream that united over it.
Okay, that undersells some of the big finales since then. In terms of wide attention, the kind measured in Nielsen ratings, the Friends finale was the last great cultural TV moment not revolving around football or a presidential debate. This staggering stat is just a reminder of how TV culture used to operate. It falls behind Seinfeld Frasier , which wrapped just a week after Friends did, drew a decent-sized Barbara Platts Dec 11, Share Now on:.
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