When Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer broke their silence over the death of their Friends co-star Matthew Perry, it was as a group. Their joint statement was a short and eloquent message that pulsed with their palpable grief, in which they chose to share their pain collectively as “a family”, rallying around each other over this “unfathomable loss” of someone so special to them.
Putting on a united front is something that has always been one of the Friends cast’s main strengths. Perry highlighted this in his memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, last year when he spoke about how Schwimmer, who at the time was considered the breakout star of the show, approached his castmates with the idea that they should negotiate their salaries as a group rather than individually.
