David Schwimmer Gives Update On Tricky 'Friends' Reunion

I'm not ashamed to admit that as soon as I finish the series, I simply start it over again.

I, essentially, have it playing on an infinite loop on Netflix.

ICYMI, it was announced back in February that the main cast of friends would be reunited for an unscripted Exclusive HBO Max Special.

(Screaming internally).

But while we wait, impatiently, some of the cast members have kindly kept us in the loop on when we can expect the new release date to be.

While regrouping has definitely been tricky due to the pandemic, things seem to be slowly coming together.

In a recent interview with The Guardian in early 2020, he touched how, in some ways, Friends has aged poorly. But ultimately, was quite groundbreaking for its time.

"Friends is nostalgic because it was a time right before the world profoundly changed in terms of social media and where our focus was," he said.

“I feel that a lot of the problem today in so many areas is that so little is taken in context," he said.

"You have to look at it from the point of view of what the show was trying to do at the time."

“Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends,” he continued.

"One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part."

“I can tell you that we are hoping to shoot [the reunion] in August, in mid-August," he said.

Cue the screaming fans.

“There has always been a hope that a component of that reunion show will have a live audience," he went on.

He clarified that even though he said they will likely be shooting in August, he truly has “no idea” when they will be able to shoot safely with a live audience.

Let us know what you think of David Schwimmer's recent update on the reunion and his comments about the lack of diversity on the show in the comments below!