Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon may star on and executive produce The Morning Show together (with Season 4 currently airing on the 2025 TV schedule with an Apple TV+ subscription), but their friendship goes back much longer than this workplace drama. In 2000, Witherspoon guest-starred on Friends as Rachel’s sister Jill, and while their characters weren’t exactly besties, there’s definitely something sisterly about the way the actress defended Aniston against the public’s misconceptions about her.
Reese Witherspoon had only glowing things to say about Jennifer Aniston when visiting Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, calling her longtime friend “really lovely and nurturing and warm and friendly and kind.” But the narrative that has surrounded the Friends star has also given her reason to be guarded, Witherspoon said, which really bothers her. She said:
