Lisa Kudrow Speaks Candidly About ‘Hard’ Parts Of Relationships With “Friends” Co-Stars

The cast of Friends’ real-life bond outside of the show is often attributed to their on-screen chemistry.

But in a new interview with Dax Shephard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Lisa Kudrow has admitted this wasn’t something that always came easily.

Lisa said that she and Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and the late Matthew Perry “worked hard at being friends”, but noted that it was a “six-way relationship” that “took some work”.

“If someone said something or did something, it didn’t get too big because it was, ‘Can I talk to you?’,” she explained, recalling how she and her co-stars would “really talk things through” whenever there were disagreements.

But she also said this was something she initially struggled with, confessing it was “usually not me” who would broach difficult subjects as she wasn’t used to such open communication.