On Saturday, Jennifer Aniston celebrated her ex’s 59th birthday Friend co-star and co-star, Lisa Kudrow, with some hilarious shots. The 53-year-old actress tagged her friend with a happy birthday in her Instagram Story, sharing a photo from 2003 taken on the 29th. People’s Choice Award.
On the next slide, she writes, “I love you” over a GIF from their show playing Rachel Green and Phoebe Buffay, jumping and screaming.
In the last photo, it looks like one of Aniston’s blurry selfies, in which she’s giving Kudrow a kiss. She added some affectionate emojis for emphasis.
The two women worked together for 10 years from 1994 to 2004. The group had a brief reunion in early 2021, and Aniston admitted in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that it brought back a lot of unexpected emotions and memories of the hardships she faced when the show ended.
“I think we were very naive when we walked into it, thinking, ‘How interesting is this going to be? They are putting the sets back together, exactly as they were originally. ‘ Then you go there and be like, ‘Oh yeah, I didn’t think about what was going to happen the last time I was actually here,'” Aniston said. “I was just surprised because it was like, ‘Hi, past, remember me? Remember how that sucks? You think that everything is in front of you and life is just going to be gorgeous and then you might have gone through the hardest time of your life? ‘”
She added, “It was all very jarring and of course, you had cameras everywhere and I had a little bit of an approachable emotion, I guess you could say. I have to go out at certain points. I don’t know how they cut around it.”
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamor, Marie Claire and more. Her first book, lonely hunter, will be released by Dial Press in February 2022.
