Matthew Perry Knew Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer Were ‘Crushing Hard’ on Each Other During ‘Friends’
03.11.2022 - 05:45
/ usmagazine.com
Could it be any more obvious? Matthew Perry got candid about his crush on Jennifer Aniston during the early days of Friends — and how he was well aware she was interested in someone else from the cast.
During a Wednesday, November 2, appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, cohost Julia Cunningham asked Perry, 53, if he was “seething” during HBO’s Friends reunion in 2021 when the Breakup star, 53, and David Schwimmer admitted that they were crushing on each other while filming the comedy series.
“I was like, ‘Was Matthew seething with anger on the set of the reunion hearing about this unrequited love?'” Cunningham wondered while reading his new memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, to which the Fools Rush In star replied, “Oh, I knew. I knew. Yeah, I knew what was going on. And eventually, my crush dissipated.”
Perry — who starred opposite Aniston and the American Crime Story alum, 56, as Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom from 1994 to 2004 — previously revealed that he had a special affection for The Morning Show actress during an ABC News interview with Diane Sawyer on Friday, October 28.
According to the Massachusetts native, he met his Aniston before they were both cast on the hit series — but when he asked her out, she said no and suggested they stay pals instead.
On Wednesday, Perry opened up about what it was like working alongside someone he had feelings for.
“At first it was like, she would walk in, I’d be like, ‘Hey, good to see you.’ And I’d go to my dressing room and just go, ‘Oh, I’ll never, I’ll never be able to be with her,'” he recalled. “But how can you not have a crush on Jennifer Aniston, you know? But I did at one point just go, ‘All right, that’s enough.'”
During last year’s HBO reunion,