For years, fans have clung to the fantasy that one day the six Friends will stroll back into Central Perk, older, wiser, and ready for a full-blown reboot. But David Schwimmer’s latest deep-dive interview about how Friends fame affected him quietly drops a bombshell: if even the theme song was too much for him to handle, how realistic is a 10-episode revival?
On the Making a Scene podcast in 2025, Schwimmer admitted that for a long time he couldn’t even listen to “I’ll Be There for You”.
Now add in his older comments about why a reunion “doesn’t make sense,” the creators’ repeated “absolutely not,” and Jennifer Aniston’s recent statement that Friends can’t come back without Matthew Perry.
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