The timing of “Friends” was perfect for Jennifer Aniston.
The actress costarred with Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, and Matt LeBlanc in the popular comedy for ten seasons, from 1994 to 2004. In a recent interview, she acknowledged that the cast didn’t have to deal with any backlash on social media, which is why she’s happy the program was recorded at that particular time.
“We had the luxury of not having social media or the internet in the ’90s and ’00s, so we were so isolated and protected,” she said in an interview with Quinta Brunson, the creator of “Abbott Elementary,” for Variety.
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“You weren’t faced with what people are saying, tearing you apart, or anything like that,” she went on. We had far more freedom to travel the world at that innocent time.”
Once more, though, there were no phones. It’s not like you have to read what it is on hundreds of displays.”
Brunson, who is a writer, producer, and actor on “Abbott Elementary,” expressed her jealousy of Aniston for being able to go through that. She also mentioned that she strictly enforced a “no social media” policy for the first season to keep everyone working on the sitcom from being influenced by what other people were saying about it online.
