Greg Kinnear Recalls Guest Starring on 'Friends,' Working With Courteney Cox on 'Shining Vale' (Exclusive)

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Greg Kinnear is talking about crossing paths with Courteney Cox before starring in their upcoming horror comedy series,. The two spoke with ET's Matt Cohen about their new television show on Starz, and Kinnear also recalled having a memorable guest-starring role on .

Kinnear played Dr. Benjamin Hobart in the episode titled «The One With Ross' Grant» during season 10 of. Ross (David Schwimmer) was up for a grant and had to appear before Dr.

Hobart, who turned out to be an ex of Ross' girlfriend at the time, Charlie (Aisha Tyler). Kinnear said he actually pretaped a lot of the episode because his eldest daughter was just born, and therefore missed his chance to work with Cox, who played Monica in the beloved series.«You know, it's crazy, my oldest daughter was born like the night before I was going to go on and subsequently something happened where my stuff — which I was so excited to go do it in front of the live audience and the whole thunderous crowd and hang with the whole gang here — and I ended up having to pretape all my stuff,» he shares. «Funny enough, we shot [] at first in a very haunted house out in Pasadena, seriously, and then we moved to Warner Brothers and the first studio stage that we worked at Courteney's like, 'Yeah, I did here,' and the whole thing came rushing back to me that she has this incredible legacy with the show.»«But I had a great time doing it,» he continues. «Unfortunately, I didn't get to work with Courteney.

I had to wait for but it was all wonderful in the end.» is about a family who moves from the city to a small town — Shining Vale, Connecticut — after Patricia, a depressed author (Cox), is caught cheating on her husband, Terry (Kinnear).