‘Friends’ star David Schwimmer has opened up about how he marked 30 years since ‘Friends’ first aired.
David Schwimmer took Matt LeBlanc “out to dinner” to celebrate 30 years of ‘Friends’.
The 58-year-old actor – who played Ross Geller in the iconic sitcom, which aired from 1994 to 2004 – has revealed how he and Matt (Joey Tribbiani) marked the show’s 30th anniversary in September last year.
During an appearance on the ‘Smallzy’s Surgery’ podcast, host Kent Small asked: “Do you reflect on when you hit a milestone like 30 years? Do you think: ‘how did that happen? Wow, what a great run. I don’t even know.’
“Or do you go: ‘God, I feel really old. Like, don’t say that?’
David replied: “All of the above.”
The ‘Goosebumps’ star added: “I happened to be back in Los Angeles around the day that marked the 30th year of when we aired, and I took [Matt] LeBlanc out to dinner, actually, and we reminisced and we toasted to the 30 years.
“I mean, it’s amazing. It’s amazing to me that people are still watching and find it funny and comforting, and I feel nothing but gratitude, really.”
David and Matt starred on the show with Courteney Cox (Monica Geller), Jennifer Aniston (Rachel Green), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay) and late actor Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing), who died aged 54 in October 2023.
Lisa previously revealed the actors met up for dinner around a decade after ‘Friends’ went off-air in 2004 and they weren’t all in a room together again until they filmed 2021’s’ Friends: the Reunion’ TV special.
During an appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s ‘Dinner’s on Me’ podcast, she explained: “It [the reunion special] was so good.
“We’d only had dinner the six of us once before since the show ended.”
She revealed the dinner took place around “10 years” after the end of ‘Friends’ and added: “It was like we didn’t miss a beat. Just us at someone’s house and had dinner and, like, didn’t miss a beat.”
Appearing on Dax Shepard’s ‘Armchair Expert’ podcast, she confessed the “six-way relationship took some work”, and the group “worked hard at being friends”.
Over the 10 seasons, the castmates became genuine pals away from the camera, and so they would try to “really talk things through” if there were any disagreements.
She recalled: “If someone said something or did something, it didn’t get too big because it was, ‘Can I talk to you?'”
David Schwimmer reveals lowkey way he celebrated Friends anniversary
