Rachel on Friends could have been played by someone else - and Jennifer Aniston could have been a memorable Saturday Night Live cast member.
Aniston spoke to Howard Stern about turning down an SNL audition, saying that she was offered the chance to audition before filming the Friends pilot.
“I didn’t think I would like that environment. I remember showing up and Sandler was there and Spade was there and I had known them already,” she said about meeting Adam Sandler and David Spade when she was in her early twenties.
“I was such a young twit, I was like ‘I think the women need to be treated better here, because it was such a boys’ club. You’re just not the brightest when you’re in your early twenties,” she said about speaking to Saturday Night Live’s creator Lorne Michaels, who was extremely interested in Aniston's comedic skills.
“I didn’t lecture - I was just saying what I would hope if I would do this what I would hope it to be," Aniston told Stern about the run-in.
The actress also spoke about recently reuniting with the Friends cast for dinner joking, “No one got naked, it was very civilized, but we just laughed a lot,” adding that “We all miss [Friends] everyday.”
And don't expect your favorite Friends to return to their coffee shop anytime soon.
Aniston said that while she’d like to do a reunion show she doesn’t think it would ever be as good as the original. “If there is a reboot of the show it won’t be even close to as good as what it was, so why do it? It would ruin it!”
