Why Reese Witherspoon Turned Down a Second Guest Episode on Friends
In another Friends-universe, we could have gotten more of Rachel Green's sister Jill and her younger sibling antics, but Reese Witherspoon revealed she turned down a chance to guest star on the show again.
In an interview alongside Jennifer Aniston with Associated Press, Witherspoon said she was asked to come back to Friends, but declined — due to a fear of performing in front of a live studio audience.
"Did you know they asked me back, and I said 'I can't do it?'" she told Aniston during the interview. "I was too scared."
"How dare?" Aniston replied, echoing all of our sentiments.
Reese Witherspoon (@ReeseW) reveals that she was asked back to #Friends but declined. Unlike Jennifer Aniston, she did not enjoy performing in front of a live studio audience when she played Aniston’s sister on the show. pic.twitter.com/tdSpE3Eo7S
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) November 15, 2019
“She’s so good in front of a live audience. You are so good!” Witherspoon told Aniston, to which she replied, "You are too, you forget it because you blacked out from fear."
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Unfortunately, we'll never find out what another episode of Jill Green would have been like, but at least we'll always get to obsess over her monochromatic crop top and thigh-high slit skirt outfit.
