Associates endlessly. Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox’s chemistry as Chandler Bing and Monica Geller was so sturdy that many followers questioned if the actors had an offscreen romantic connection.
Regardless of falling in love and getting married on Associates, Perry and Cox’s real-world relationship has all the time been platonic. The Cougar City actress was married to David Arquette from 1999 to 2013 and has been relationship Johnny McDaid since late 2013. The 17 Once more actor, for his half, by no means married, however has dated A-listers together with Julia Roberts and Lizzy Caplan.
Whereas selling the 2021 Associates: The Reunion HBO Max particular, Perry shed some mild on why nobody within the solid ever acquired collectively.
“There was a rule that we had, it was actually vital to the six of us, that we saved a friendship; that we had been buddies. And if we had been hooking up or if there was any strangeness occurring, which may mess with issues,” he instructed Entry in Could 2021. “So, we saved a friendship, and we did turn into actually good buddies. And we’re actually good buddies to at the present time.”
After the beloved sitcom led to 2004, the Odd Couple alum and his TV spouse stayed in one another’s lives. A decade after the season finale, Perry made a visitor look on Cox’s present Cougar City. “It was so nice to work with him. He’s so candy,” the Scream actress mentioned of her costar throughout a January 2014 look on CONAN. The Alabama native then gushed in regards to the Virtually Heroes actor’s humorousness. “Once I labored with him on Associates, he actually gave me my persona for 10 years,” she mentioned.
The pair reunited onscreen once more for the Associates reunion in Could 2021. Through the particular occasion, Cox mentioned she thought Monica and Chandler would nonetheless be collectively within the current. “And you make me snicker every single day,” she instructed the Go On alum of his sarcastic character.
Perry struggled with drug and alcohol habit all through his time on the enduring tv sequence and within the years after the finale. He acquired sober in early 2021, previous to filming the reunion, wherein he admitted that he “felt like I used to be going to die if [the Friends audience] didn’t snicker.” Cox commented on her former costar’s frame of mind in the course of the present in a February 2022 interview with The Instances of London.
“That was quite a lot of stress he placed on himself. That’s loads to suppose how a lot he relied on that for his personal self-worth,” she mentioned. “He’s simply struggled for some time. I feel he’s doing nice now.”
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