Cole Sprouse explained why he found it so difficult working on Friends with Jennifer Aniston
Topics: Cole Sprouse, Jennifer Aniston, Friends
Lucy Devine
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Topics: Cole Sprouse, Jennifer Aniston, Friends
Cole Sprouse has opened up about why he found it so difficult to film scenes with Jennifer Aniston.
Sprouse, now 32, first joined the case of Friends in season six, where he played Ross Geller's son, Ben Geller.
Sprouse was on the show for around two years, starting when he was aged just seven years old.
Being on one of the world's biggest and most successful sitcoms is pretty huge for a kid, and Sprouse has since opened up about some of the difficulties he had on set.
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One of them related directly to Jennifer Aniston, with Sprouse explaining he had a really hard time working with her.
But why?
Well, he was distracted by the fact he was in love with Jennifer.
"I had a really, really hard time working with Aniston because I was so in love with her," Cole told The New York Post.
“I was infatuated. I was speechless - I'd get all bubbly and forget my lines and completely blank. It was so difficult.”
Credit where it's due, he did a decent enough job.
So decent, in fact, that he sometimes reminded his elders of their lines when they forgot them.
Meanwhile, Aniston has previously opened up about why she would never star in another sitcom.
Speaking on the SmartLess podcast, Aniston was asked what had been her favorite job in her career and Friends fans will be happy to learn that the popular show was a ‘no brainer’ as her favorite.
She added: “I would have to say that is number one.
“Every single day I miss the schedule of filming... it’s the best schedule ever on the planet.”
This tied into her reason for being reluctant to star in a sitcom again, simply because it is unlikely to compare to the award-winning show.
She said: “If I knew it would be the same experience as I had with those guys, yes, but I doubt that will ever happen.”
If you spend a lot of your time on the Internet then you'll probably be aware there's loads of stuff in Friends that people missed the first time, only for it to be rediscovered 12 years after the series finale.
Fans have noticed famous scenes where Matthew Perry almost cracked-up, and people have even spotted pies going missing from tables when Brad Pitt appeared on the show.
Oh, and there's the moment an extra chewed her coffee.
But there's also this one where Courtney Cox is clearly replaced with a double.
"I must've seen every Friends episode a million times and never noticed the world's worst stand-in for Monica," the person who found it wrote on X, alongside a clip of Courtney Cox nodding at Lisa Kudrow's Phoebe - only to suddenly morph into someone completely different when the camera changes angle.