Why Jennifer Aniston Almost Didn't Return For Friends' Final Season
2022/12/16
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It’s hard to imagine the final season of Friends without the whole group back, but it nearly happened as Jennifer Aniston almost didn’t return. 


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But the final season of Friends as the world now knows it almost didn’t happen, as Aniston wasn’t sure she was going to return, and unlike many other cases in the entertainment industry, it had nothing to do with her contract.
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Why Jennifer Aniston Almost Didn’t Return For Friends’ Final Season

Speaking to NBC in 2004, Jennifer Aniston admitted she almost didn’t join the rest of the Friends gang in the final season. Aniston explained she had a “couple of issues” she was dealing with, and she wanted the series to end while people “still loved them”. She went on to explain she wasn’t sure how much more of Rachel she had left in her, and she worried about the series’ quality declining if they continued looking for new stories. Aniston eventually decided to return, and the series finale of Friends was very well received.
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Friends season 10 might not be the strongest of the bunch, but in general, it did justice to the main characters and gave them closure (except for Joey), with Chandler and Monica becoming parents and moving out of the apartment, and Ross and Rachel getting together (supposedly for good this time, as it’s implied in the spinoff series Joey that they got married). The final season of Friends without Jennifer Aniston back as Rachel would have been very different, and her absence would have affected the arcs of the rest, especially that of Ross, but fans are surely relieved she decided to come back and realized she still had more Rachel to offer.
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