Here's How Much the 'Friends' Cast Members Were Paid for HBO Max Reunion

Friends is proving it’s still the best show out there.

The real reunion! While fans were thrilled to see Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc together again on HBO Max’s Friends: The Reunion, it was the actors themselves who were even more excited.

Friends: The Reunion delighted us last week and helped us escape reality for a bit as the six friends reunited. The show was high on its nostalgia factor as fans across the globe wept and celebrated with them.

Friends may be long behind us, but you better believe the Friends cast still make BIG bucks when they all sit on a couch together!

Friends fans seemed to thoroughly enjoy the reunion special when it aired on HBO Max last week, and now we’re getting more details on how it all came together, including what the cast was reportedly paid to film it. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer were all initially offered $1 million to appear in the special but turned it down, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Friends: The Reunion” has finally arrived, and cast member Lisa Kudrow opened up about the experience during a virtual visit to Thursday’s edition of  “The Talk”.

The Friends reunion has happened and promptly reminded the world about everything we loved about the smash hit series.The sitcom, which ran for a decade, made instant stars of its six cast members, who soon became millionaires, with each banking a serious amount from acting on the show.

Friends makes a return to TV screens today with a special reunion show airing on HBO and Sky. James Corden is the host of the one-off special, which sees the cast reminisce about their time on the show and welcome back some of the sitcom’s guest stars such as Tom Selleck, who played Monica’s boyfriend Richard.

long-awaited but also slightly dreaded reunion. The cast has (sensibly) always firmly batted off any suggestions of re-visiting the Friends glory days.

The Friends reunion special is finally available to stream on HBO Max after months and months of patiently waiting!

Spoiler alert! Major spoilers ahead for “Friends: The Reunion”. Turn back now if you don’t want them to know that you know that they know!

cast will always be there for each other, but they say their new HBO Max special is the last time that they will reunite publicly. Courteney Cox made the declaration toward the end of as she and her castmates -- Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc -- tearfully looked back on their time together. «Honestly, this will really make me cry, but this will be the last time that we’re ever asked about the show as a group that we will do this,» she said. «Like,

Could the FRIENDS cast BE more grateful for the show that made them all stars?!

Friends: The Reunion is set to debut tomorrow (May 27) on HBO Max.

The “Friends” cast discussed their favourite episodes of the beloved sitcom in a new interview with “Good Morning America”.

The “Friends” cast discussed their favourite episodes of the beloved sitcom in a new interview with “Good Morning America”.

special is coming, and fans couldn't be more excited.

"Friends" fans were treated to the first full-length trailer for HBO Max’s upcoming reunion special, but the experience was marred for some by the inclusion of late-night host James Corden.  The trailer featured the entire cast of the beloved 1990s sitcom, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer, reuniting for the first time since the show ended in 2004.

Following last week’s first look teaser at the long-awaited Friends reunion, HBO have released a full trailer showing fans exactly what they can look forward to on May 27. HBO Max released the video on Tuesday, May 19 – at round 6pm for all the fans tuning in from the UK – and in just 12 hours it was viewed over 4 million times on Youtube alone.