Still, even if it’s impossible to get them back together, we can be thankful all of the Friends cast stayed on board throughout the ten seasons, even as their fame skyrocketed and other work offers must have been coming in from all directions. But this almost wasn’t the case.
By the end of its run, Aniston had become more famous than any of the other five, thanks to starring roles in films like Bruce Almighty and Along Came Polly and to her high-profile marriage to Brad Pitt. This led to her being hesitant to return to the sitcom. “I had a couple issues that I was dealing with,” she explained. “I wanted it to end when people still loved us and we were on a high. And then I was also feeling like, how much more of Rachel do I have in me?”
We can be thankful Aniston did eventually sign up for the final season, as otherwise, we would have been robbed of the perfect end to Rachel’s story.
