Friends without Jennifer Aniston? It's not even worth thinking about. But, it very nearly happened, according to the actress herself.
Speaking at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at the weekend, where she finally won an award after being snubbed at the Oscars (you was robbed, Jen), she recalled the early days of her career and how she was nearly replaced on Friends because she had already agreed to star in another sitcom called Muddling Through.
Speaking at the film festival, she said: 'So there was a period where I had to stand out of the photographs for the group shots, and I had phone calls from girlfriends saying, "I'm auditioning for your part in Friends.'"
'They just took the chance that Muddling Through would fail after the [ten] episodes they picked it up for, and so I just started doing this back-and-forth from Sony to Warner Bros for two weeks.'
Jen also spoke about reports that the producers for Friends originally wanted her to play Monica Geller.
'They wanted Courteney [Cox] to play Rachel,' the Cake actress said, 'and unbeknownst to each other, I wanted to play Rachel and she wanted to play Monica. It worked out perfectly.'
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