“I mean, the first season, I had a major crush on Jen,” Schwimmer confessed. “It was reciprocated,” Aniston noted. Although the pair had mutual crushes on each other, the timing wasn’t right. “At some point, we were both crushing hard on each other, but it was like two ships passing because one of us was always in a relationship and we never crossed that boundary,” Schwimmer explained. “We respected that.” “Bullsh*t,” Matt LeBlanc joked. “I’m kidding. I’m kidding. I’m kidding.” Aniston admitted on the reunion special that she and Schwimmer channeled their love for each other into their TV characters. “Honestly, I remember saying one time to David, ‘It’s gonna be such a bummer if the first time you and I actually kiss is gonna be on national television.’ Sure enough, the first time we kissed was in that coffee shop,” she said. “So, we just channeled all of our adoration and love for each other into Ross and Rachel.” Schwimmer recalled cuddling on the couch with Aniston during rehearsal breaks in the first year or two of the show. “We would spoon and fall asleep on the couch,” Aniston shared. While the TV stars’ crush confessions blew host James Corden and Friends fans’ minds, Schwimmer and Aniston’s costars apparently were aware of the actors’ feelings all along. “We knew. We knew,” Matthew Perry declared. “We knew for sure,” Courteney Cox added. “Great. Now. Thanks,” Schwimmer told his fellow costars. “It was a situation that we couldn’t, we couldn’t do anything about it”…but perhaps that was a good thing, or so Cox seems to believe. She said, “How great though, ultimately cause if you had and it didn’t work out, it would not have probably been as great.” Friends: The Reunion is now streaming on HBO Max. Next, pivot your attention to these 67 unforgettable quotes from Friends.
