Friends: Lisa Kudrow reveals cast of hit TV show met only once after series ended

The cast of hit 90s sitcom Friends.

The cast of hit sitcom Friends only met up once in 17 years after the show ended.

Lisa Kudrow – who played Phoebe Buffay in the series alongside Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry – has revealed the actors met up for dinner around a decade after Friends went off the air in 2004, and they weren’t all in a room together again until they filmed 2021’s Friends: The Reunion TV special.

During an appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s on Me podcast, she explained: “It [the reunion special] was so good.”

”We’d only had dinner, the six of us, once before since the show ended.“

She revealed the dinner took place around “10 years” after the end of Friends and added: “It was like we didn’t miss a beat. Just us at someone’s house and had dinner and, like, didn’t miss a beat.”

Even though the whole cast rarely got back together, Kudrow remained close to her female co-stars Aniston and Cox over the years.

Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox in an episode of Friends from 2001. Photo / Getty Images

Aniston previously explained the trio are like “family”.

Speaking with Variety for their Actors on Actors series, she explained: “We see each other. I talked on FaceTime with Court last night for an hour, and Lisa and the boys, and we just have a really – it’s a family forever.”

The show ran from 1994 to 2004 and Kudrow recently admitted the group had to work hard at becoming pals in real life.

Appearing on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, she confessed the “six-way relationship took some work”, and the group “worked hard at being friends”.

Over the 10 seasons, the castmates became genuine pals away from the camera, and so they would try to “really talk things through” if there were any disagreements.

She recalled: “If someone said something or did something, it didn’t get too big because it was, ‘Can I talk to you?’”

Kudrow admitted it was “usually not her” who would open up the conversations, because she “never knew that was allowed” in terms of having straightforward chats in that way.

She added: “I had to learn to be like, ‘Can I talk to you about something?’”