I’ll be there for you! David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston stole hearts as Ross Geller and Rachel Inexperienced, respectively, throughout their 10 seasons on Pals — however the duo had a bond exterior of the sequence as effectively.
The pair dropped a bombshell on followers throughout the Might 2021 Pals reunion once they revealed that they each had emotions for each other firstly of the NBC comedy, which premiered in 1994.
“The primary season, I had a significant crush on Jen,” Schwimmer shared throughout HBOMax’s reunion particular.
Aniston added: “It was reciprocated.”
Schwimmer defined that whereas they each had crushes, neither of them acted on these emotions. As an alternative, the costars stayed shut mates.
“I believe in some unspecified time in the future we have been each crushing laborious on one another, nevertheless it was like two ships passing as a result of one in every of us was at all times in a relationship, and we by no means crossed that boundary,” he clarified. “We revered that.”
Aniston, for her half, mirrored on the best way their first onscreen kiss performed a job in them by no means taking their connection additional in actual life.
“I keep in mind saying one time to David, ‘It’s gonna be such a bummer if the primary time you and I really kiss goes to be on nationwide tv,’” she mentioned throughout the particular. “Positive sufficient, the primary time we kissed was in that espresso store. We simply channeled all of our adoration and love for one another into Ross and Rachel.”
Whereas the forged members by no means explored a romance, their emotions for each other weren’t a secret.
“It was a extremely popular matter on the set as a result of the electrical energy between them within the scenes was like, ‘Oh, my God, they’ll’t be appearing that, there’s received to be one thing!’ Everyone was suspicious that one thing was happening,” producer Kevin S. Vivid advised The Hollywood Reporter in regards to the twosome in Might 2021.
He continued: “Folks made up their very own rumors at a sure level. However all of us thought one thing might need been happening as a result of they have been simply so good collectively. We have been so invested in Ross and Rachel, like the remainder of you. There was one thing about them. However just like the present, in a sure manner, you needed to wait a very long time after which it by no means occurred. The blissful ending is within the present.”
Scroll down for a glimpse at among the sweetest issues Schwimmer and Aniston have mentioned about one another:
