Nearly two decades after Friends’ finale, the sitcom’s six major cast members all have good ideas about where their characters are today. During Friends’ 2021 reunion on HBO Max, the actors gathered to share behind-the-scenes secrets, confirm rumors, and reminisce about some of the most iconic aspects of the 1990s sitcom. With the 10-season show having come to an end back in 2004, the Friends reunion also featured the cast members reflecting on what they believe their characters had been up to over the past 17 years.

Friends’ season 10 finale saw a largely satisfying ending for the main characters, which included a major reconciliation between the core will-they-won’t-they couple Ross and Rachel. After 10 years of being off-and-on, Ross and Rachel finally got back together when she got off the plane to Paris and chose to stay in New York instead. Meanwhile, Monica and Chandler said goodbye to Friends’ iconic apartment as they moved their twin son and daughter out to the suburbs. While Joey prepared to move to LA to further his acting career, Phoebe and her new husband Mike (Paul Rudd) considered having children of their own in the future. In true Friends fashion, the hit sitcom concluded with the main characters walking down to get coffee at Central Perk.

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When asked where Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey would be in 2021, Friends’ cast members Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, and Matt LeBlanc each had perfectly fitting answers for their characters. While Joey, Friends’ 1-season spinoff, did give a few clues for the title character's future, the short-lived show was largely ignored by the actors. Instead, the major Friends actors addressed where their characters are now in terms of where they’re living, whether they have more kids, and how they would have matured over the past two decades.

Jennifer Aniston (Rachel Green)

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Having risen to fame as Rachel Green, Jennifer Aniston felt the natural progression for her character after Friends would be for Rachel and Ross to have gotten married after the season 10 finale. Aniston also mentioned that she believes Rachel and Ross would have had more kids in the future, thus growing their Geller family beyond Ross’s son Ben (played by Cole Sprouse) from his first marriage and their daughter Emma, who was born in Friends’ season 8 finale. Aniston’s prediction falls in line with what Rachel and Ross had agreed upon when getting together in Friends’ ending. While the two had considered getting back together several times, they never wanted to risk breaking up again and making it hard on their daughter. With Aniston suggesting that Ross and Rachel would still be together today, Friends’ season 10 finale made their years of will-they-won’t-they drama worth it.

David Schwimmer (Ross Geller)

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David Schwimmer’s prediction for what became of his Friends character Ross Geller goes hand-in-hand with where Aniston thinks Rachel is today. Aniston suggested that Ross would still be “playing with bones,” after which Schwimmer clarified that Ross would, indeed, still be a paleontologist today. The dinosaur-obsessed character finished Friends’ season 10 finale as a professor of paleontology, so it’s reasonable to assume he’s still teaching new generations about bones and fossils.

Schwimmer also agreed with Aniston that Ross would have had a few more kids with Rachel, which aligns with how the character originally envisioned their characters’ future back in Friends season 2. Ross predicted that he and Rachel would eventually have two kids together; specifically, a boy and a girl, with the girl coming first so Ben wouldn’t be too competitive. Since Ross and Rachel truly did have a daughter together first in Friends season 8, Schwimmer’s character may have correctly predicted their future if they had a son after Friends’ ending.

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Courteney Cox (Monica Geller)

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Rather than going into how many more children Monica and Chandler may have adopted, Courteney Cox answered the question in terms of how Monica Geller’s personality would be largely the same today. As Ross’ younger sister, Monica was known for being particularly competitive with those around her, with Cox suggesting that this would have been made even more apparent as she became a hands-on mom to the twins Jack and Erica Bing. Since Jack and Erica would have only been about 17 years old and still in high school during 2021, Friends’ Monica actress believes the character would be in charge of every bake sale and heavily involved in the PTA.

Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing)

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While Perry didn’t reveal too much about where he thinks Chandler Bing would be after Friends' ending, he made sure that Cox included his character in her assessment of the married couple’s future. After getting a nudge from Perry during the Friends reunion, Cox explained that Chandler would still be making Monica laugh every day, suggesting the pair is still happily married as they raise their two children. When Friends season 10 ended, Chandler got a full-time job at an advertising company, which he likely stayed in and climbed the corporate ladder after having a major career switch.

Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay)

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Phoebe Buffay actress Lisa Kudrow thinks that the beloved Friends character is still happily married to her husband Mike Hannigan, who was portrayed by Paul Rudd. Kudrow also suggested that she and Mike are living in Connecticut after having a few kids, which pays off Mike’s suggestion at the end of Friends’ finale that they should “make one of those” after meeting the infants Erica and Jack. Staying true to the character, the actress believes that Phoebe advocates for her kids and others who are “just a little different.” Expanding on this prediction, Kudrow thinks that Phoebe later created an arts and music program at her kids’ Connecticut school, which likely includes teaching the kids the guitar chords and lyrics to her memorable Friends song “Smelly Cat.”

Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani)

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Playing off of the reveal that Joey Tribbiani had moved to Los Angeles, California for his acting career in FriendsJoey spinoff, Matt LeBlanc said the character is likely running a sandwich shop at Venice Beach. While the rest of Friends’ characters had unconfirmed futures, the one-season spinoff revealed a little bit of what happened to Joey Tribbiani after all of his best friends got married and started families. However, LeBlanc’s suggestion that Joey opened up a sandwich shop hints that he’s no longer an actor today, but instead turned his love of hot sandwiches into a career path.

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