Friends: Rachel Had Too Much in Common with Jennifer Aniston to Be a Coincidence
While all the lead actors in the main cast of Friends felt a special connection to their characters, Jennifer Aniston and Rachel actually shared similar episodes in their past.
Friends is an iconic TV show and one of the best sitcoms ever, and despite having ended almost two decades ago, it's still universally beloved all around the world. The lead actors are superstars even though their careers paths after Friends were very different: be it Jennifer Aniston or Matthew Perry, people still love them for their Friends characters.
Back in 1994, when the show was only starting off, it was more of an experiment than anything else, and it didn't have nearly enough budget to attract high-tier actors.
That's why the creators of Friends were looking for young and aspiring performers, and they found their folks — a brilliant cast who later became superstars thanks to the show.
Fortunately, this restriction partially became the reason why Friends found the perfect actors for their roles as the young guys who were eventually chosen shared many similarities to their characters.
Matt LeBlanc, for one, even played an aspiring actor in desperate search of his dream role just like himself before Friends! But he was far from being the only one.
Jennifer Aniston shared a lot of uncanny similarities with her character, Rachel Green.
Just like Rachel, the actress was a waitress in New York before finding her dream job. Just like Rachel, she was terrible at her previous job — not the waitress gig but the telemarketer one.
Jennifer Aniston claims she never made a single sale when she worked there. Just like Rachel, Aniston had a close one working on Days Of Our Lives, save for the fact it was her father and not a friend called Joey.
So yeah, Jennifer Aniston had quite a lot in common with her character — if not personality-wise than certainly in terms of life experience. It helped her nail all the auditions and finally make her long-anticipated breakthrough...in the movie industry, not in fashion.
But honestly, if she went for that, she would've nailed it, too: Rachel Green did, and Aniston was the perfect real-life Rachel Green herself.
Source: InStyle