Jennifer Aniston Thinks Sebastian Stan ‘Would Have Been Joey’ If He Was On ‘Friends’

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“Friends” was an important part of Sebastian Stans life. In the latest instalment of Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series, the “Pam & Tommy” star sits down for a conversation with Jennifer Aniston. READ MORE: Jennifer Aniston Talks ‘Friends’ Ending, Getting A Divorce And Going Into Therapy Talking about their careers, Stan reveals to the “Friends” star that the iconic sitcom got him through “a lot of lonely nights.” Aniston agreed, “It’s a friend to have in the room sometimes.” Commenting that Stan would have been “a great cast member” on “Friends”, Aniston shares, “You would have been Joey.” Stan then admits that his friends actually had a different character in mind for him. “And my friends would always go around and be like, ‘Who are you most like?’ I always came closest to Chandler because I get very sort of neurotic,” he says. “And I just used to die laughing.” Along with starring in “The Morning Show”, last year, Aniston also appeared in the long awaited “Friends” reunion special, and she now admits she didn’t expected it “to sucker punch us as hard as it did in the emotional gut.” She explains, “We just had the idea this is going to be so fun — we’re going back to the sets exactly the way they were.

And literally, every single nook on a shelf was the same. It was so creepy. But each and every one of us, we walked in, it was just like, ‘Oh!’… Time travel.” Aniston also shares that the cast have remained close since “Friends” went off the air in 2004. “It was ’04 when it ended.

And we were different. We were so little. Our lives were ahead of us. And so much has changed,” she says. “We kind of had rose-colored glasses going into it.