Matthew Perry’s Associates co-stars — (L-R) David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc — paid tribute to him on social media this week.
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Matthew Perry’s Associates co-stars — (L-R) David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc — paid tribute to him on social media this week.
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Within the days after Matthew Perry was discovered lifeless of an obvious drowning at his Los Angeles house on Oct. 28, his Associates co-stars stated in a joint assertion that ”we are going to say extra, as and after we are ready.”
This week, they’ve.
Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer took to social media on Tuesday and Wednesday to pay tribute to Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing for all 10 seasons of the hit NBC sitcom.
They reminisced on a few of their favourite moments from their years on the present and the shut bonds that continued lengthy after it wrapped in 2004. Their posts included pictures and movies from the set, in addition to loads of references to his character’s most emphatically delivered catchphrase.
”I think about you up there, someplace, in the identical white swimsuit, arms in your pockets, trying round,” Schwimmer wrote. ”May there BE any extra clouds?”
The 5 all praised Perry as an actor, with Schwimmer hailing his ”impeccable comedic timing and supply” and Kudrow thanking him for ”displaying up at work while you weren’t properly after which, being utterly good” — a reference to his decades-long wrestle with drug and alcohol habit.
In addition they described him as a form and beneficiant particular person, who not solely made them chortle however helped make their ”six-way relationship” work, as Kudrow put it. Aniston described Perry as ”such part of our DNA.”
”We have been all the time the 6 of us,” she added. ”This was a selected household that without end modified the course of who we have been and what our path was going to be.”
A few of Perry’s Associates castmates, together with Maggie Wheeler (who performed Chandler’s on-and-off girlfriend Janice) and Morgan Fairchild (who performed his mom) — in addition to the present’s co-creators — have additionally spoken out since his demise final month.
However that is the primary time his 5 essential co-stars have mourned him publicly, sharing their favourite recollections and messages of thanks. Here is what they stated.
Jennifer Aniston
Aniston, who performed Rachel Inexperienced, wrote on Instagram that she’s spent the previous few weeks studying over her texts with Perry, ”laughing and crying then laughing once more.”
”I discovered one textual content that he despatched me out of nowhere at some point,” she added. ”It says all of it.”
She shared a screenshot of a textual content from Perry, of a black-and-white photograph of the 2 of them laughing mid-conversation.
”Making you chortle simply made my day,” Perry had written, and Aniston responded that he had accomplished so hundreds of occasions.
”I speak to you daily… typically I can nearly hear you saying ’might you BE any crazier?'” she wrote on the finish of her submit. ”Relaxation little brother. You all the time made my day.”
Courteney Cox
Cox performed Monica Geller, a member of the buddy group who ultimately dates and finally marries Chandler in one of many present’s most beloved storylines.
In truth, as she wrote on Instagram, the 2 have been initially solely speculated to have a one-night fling in London — ”however due to the viewers’s response, it turned the start of their love story.”
She shared a clip of the long-lasting scene through which Monica and Chandler are practically caught in mattress the following morning by her brother Ross, performed by Schwimmer. It is adopted by an outtake, through which she seems at Perry and says ”your flip” earlier than they jokingly dive below the covers.
”Earlier than we began rolling, he whispered a humorous line for me to say,” Cox wrote. ”He usually did issues like that. He was humorous and he was sort.”
Cox stated that is considered one of hundreds of such moments with Perry she needs she might share, and that she’s grateful for each considered one of them.
Lisa Kudrow
Kudrow, who performed Phoebe Buffay, posted an previous Polaroid of her and Perry and recalled filming the pilot collectively.
”You urged we play poker AND made it a lot enjoyable whereas we initially bonded,” she wrote. ”Thanks for that.”
Kudrow thanked Perry for a lot of different issues: together with ”making me chortle so laborious at one thing you stated, that my muscular tissues ached, and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY” and for ”all I realized about GRACE and LOVE by way of realizing you.”
”Thanks for the time I received to have with you, Matthew,” she added.
David Schwimmer
Schwimmer, who performed Chandler’s finest buddy (and later brother-in-law) Ross Geller, shared a photograph of the 2 carrying Miami Vice-style fits and hair gel from one of many present’s flashback Thanksgiving episodes, which he described as considered one of his favourite moments with Perry.
”Now it makes me smile and grieve on the identical time,” he wrote.
Schwimmer thanked Perry for ”ten unimaginable years of laughter and creativity,” praising Perry’s potential to show a straight line of dialogue into one thing ”so solely unique and unexpectedly humorous it nonetheless astonishes.”
And, he added, Perry had coronary heart: ”Which you have been beneficiant with, and shared with us, so we might create a household out of six strangers.”
Matt LeBlanc
LeBlanc wrote on Instagram that it was an honor to share the stage with Perry and to name him a buddy.
”The occasions we had collectively are truthfully among the many favourite occasions of my life,” he wrote, later including, ”I’ll all the time smile after I consider you and I am going to always remember you.”
LeBlanc, who performed Chandler’s roommate Joey Tribbiani, shared a number of screengrabs of the duo’s most memorable moments — from defending their house armed with a pan and laundry detergent, to sitting within the canoe that was at one level their solely piece of furnishings.
And he closed with a joke straight out of the present: ”I assume you are protecting the 20 bucks you owe me.”