Why ‘Friends’ Alum Matthew Perry Doesn’t Want To Do A Revival Of The Sitcom

Matthew Perry has a pretty valid reason why he would say no to a “Friends” revival.

In a recent interview with Variety, Perry revealed that he has a “recurring nightmare” about him and his fellow “Friends” alums doing the sitcom again. “I’m not kidding about this. When I’m asleep, I have this nightmare that we do ‘Friends’ again and nobody cares,” shared the Golden Globe-nominated actor, who played Chandler Bing on the NBC series. “We do a whole series, we come back, and nobody cares about it. So if anybody asks me [to do a reunion show], 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’s “Friends” co-star Jennifer Aniston shares the same sentiment. “Honestly, I don’t know what we would do,” Aniston told Lorraine Kelly of getting the gang back together during an appearance on her eponymous British series last December. “I think that period of time was sort of nostalgic. I think why people have such affection for it is because even though it was only 12 years ago it ended or 13 … there was something about a time where our faces weren’t stuffed into cell phones. We weren’t checking Facebooks and Instagrams. We were in a room together, in a coffee shop together. We were talking, having conversations. We have lost that.”

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“We were jokingly saying that if ‘Friends’ was created today, you would have a coffee shop full of people that were just staring into iPhones,” Aniston, who played Rachel Green on the series, said during the inaugural episode of Arianna Huffington’s new Thrive Global Podcast just last month. “There would be no actual episodes or conversations.”

Lisa Kudrow, who portrayed Phoebe Buffay on the show, wasn’t also keen on a “Friends” revival. “I don’t see it happening [because] what would it be about?” she told “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie last February. “The thing we liked about that show is it was like 20-somethings and they were their own family and now they all have families. So what are we going to watch?”

“Friends,” which also stars Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer, ran for 10 seasons and originally aired on NBC from 1994 to 2004.

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