Courteney Cox, 49, was on Letterman earlier this week, where she was promoting her film directorial debut, Just Before I Go. The film stars Sean William Scott, best known as Stifler from American Pie. Scott’s character is suicidal and returns home to confront his painful past. Courteney said that when Scott asked her for the part, he was so confident that it freaked her out and she asked him if he was a Scientologist. He’s not!
The first thing Letterman asked Courteney when she sat down was whether a Friends reunion would happen, and she ruled it out. Courtney explained that she couldn’t get all her former castmembers together for dinner, saying that the other women would come and maybe Matthew Perry but that Matt Leblanc canceled on her the last time and that David Schwimmer lives in NY City so he’s out. She also said the set wouldn’t translate to film, primarily Monica’s apartment. Here’s how she explained it, and a clip is below.
Holding out hope for a “Friends” reunion? Then Courteney Cox has some bad news for you.
The “Cougar Town” actress put rumors of a reunion to rest Monday during an appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman.”
“It’s not gonna happen,” Cox, 49, said.
As she pointed out, she can’t even get her former co-stars together for a meal, let alone a reunion project.
“There’s six friends and I have been trying to put together a cast dinner for 10 years,” Cox told Letterman. “It doesn’t happen. I mean, I can get the girls to come, maybe Matthew Perry. Matt LeBlanc canceled last time right at the last minute, [David] Schwimmer lives [in New York City], so it’s just not going to happen.”
Courteney told a story about how she went to Italy with her boyfriend and with her daughter Coco, nearly 10, “to meet my boyfriend’s family.” Courteney has been dating an Irish musician named Johnny McDaid, 37, who plays for Snow Patrol. They’ve been together about six months from my count and are possibly engaged. Courtney was seen wearing what looked like an engagement ring earlier this week, but we haven’t heard anything else.
Courteney is still friendly with Coco’s dad, her ex David Arquette, and even cast him in her movie. She told Letterman “We’re really close friends and we are the ‘modern family.’ My boyfriend and David are friends. I’m friends with his girlfriend, who’s pregnant. She’s going to have a baby in June. It is strange, but we’re not doing it just for Coco. We actually really like each other.” That’s nice and I get the impression that she’s just being honest.
As nice as Courteney is, I have to say something about how stiff she looks. Her face barely moved and there was something going on with her mouth. She’s admitted to wanting to look younger and it’s a shame because all this work has the opposite effect.
Here’s a clip of Courtney’s appearance on Letterman where she talks about Friends.
Here’s Courteney on 4-21 outside Letterman with her boyfriend and on 4-20 flying out of LAX. I didn’t spot a ring on Letterman but she was wearing what looked like an engagement ring at the airport. Maybe she’s not ready to announce it yet.
Photo credit: FameFlynet
Her face 🙁
She’s morphing into Janice Dickinson.
I know, in that one shot where she’s waving she is so unrecognizable that I gasped. She looks like Janice Dickinson.
ETA: Oops. I see you said Janice Dickinson, too, I didn’t see that line at first.
Speaking of Cougar Town…..I happened on TBS the other night and the show was on…hadn’t seen it in a few years and OMG!!! Every cast member, except for Busy Phillips looks like they have masks on. It was actually quite entertaining and a little surreal to see such a sudden rather than gradual transformation. Nobody’s faces were moving. 🙂
Oops, Esmom…. I meant to reply to doofus. 🙂
yeah, I didn’t even mention that actress who used to be on Drew Carey and Scrubs…she’s as bad as Cox.
Yep, I’m pretty sure the show employs someone to inject botox between takes. Even the actor who plays Jules son is starting to look like he’s partaking.
It was so weird when Matthew Perry had a cameo earlier this year. His face actually moved, he has some wrinkles…you get used to all the jacked up faces if you binge watch it then suddenly there’s a normal looking person in the mix and it really made everyone else look like they were wax figures slowly melting. Plus it really emphasized how much of the ‘acting’ is them just doing loud voices because they can’t make normal facial expressions.
@justpassingthrough– the masks!!! It reminds me of the show “The Folliowing” where they wear the life-like Joe Carroll maks. Very close to life but you can still tell they are wearing masks, like a wax figure.
she really f-ed it up, huh? I always thought she was so pretty, and that “Monica” was prettier than “Rachel” (BALLS)…and she had to go and mess up her face.
when I see promos for that crappy show she’s currently on, I cringe because A) she looks so terrible, B) she looks SO plastic and C) she looks like she has trouble just moving her mouth to get her lines out.
Yes! Totally agree and bonus points for “BALLS”.
But yeah..all the injections are really distracting. It’s just a very bad idea for an actress to do this to her face. It’s a career-killer for sure.
Just wanted to add that I love Cougar town, it’s really super fun. And although in each season her face looks WORSE, (she really messes up her face) she’s really good and really funny. I can’t even dismiss it, regardless of how her face looks lol.
OAN her body is banging…
That’s exactly right. I couldn’t put my finger on who she reminds me of lately. How tragic.
Some people have claimed that she’s a class A Bitch but she’s still my favorite Friend. But yep, she has jacked-up her face when there wasn’t a need for her to touch it.
She’s veering into Brandi Glanville territory..ugh. She was so beautiful, why did she have to do that to her face?
If you painted her face green she’d look like she was doing Jim Carrey’s part in The Mask. That’s not good.
I am socked
The World is shocked.
I have to give Courtney and David credit for remaining friends post divorce. Sorry to hear that Friends reunion won’t happen.
Wow. People have asked why Cougartown wasn’t a bigger hit, and its because Cox has rendered herself unwatchable. That face. Its absurd how much she has injected into it.
I never watched Cougar Town but i did like Dirt, she really knows how to play a bitch.
I loved Dirt! I was actually sad when I heard it was cancelled.
Yup. It’s actually pretty funny (or was in the first few seasons) but I had to give it up because it hurts to watch her.
that entire show is unwatchable.
I tried…I really did, because I saw one promo that had one joke that made me chuckle. but it’s pretty lame…the jokes aren’t funny…and Busy Phillips’ character is SO F-ING ANNOYING.
The show does however have a fan base, and for a while was the subject of a lot of “why isn’t this more popular?” column inches. Blame was placed on the network, on the crappy title being off-putting, but no one ever mentions what Cox did to her face as a reason why people might not want to watch. Its ridiculous, with her rubber lips and frozen, overly plumped face – and its especially ridiculous when you catch an old episode of Friends and see how much she’s done to herself.
I love that show but it’s so hard to watch that face! Christa Miller is just as bad.
I watched part of it once but I couldn’t look at her face even through one show. It made me feel queasy. She started messing with it when she did Dirt but it was bearable then at least. I know lots of women her age who are still hot without doing stuff to themselves.
She looks like Janice Dickinson in that second photograph.
I think she looks fantastic for almost 50. But I am one of those high maintenance women, I would rather look like hard plastic than soft and wrinkly and filled with liver spots,lol. Just being honest.
Too bad about the Friends reunion. It could have introduced a new generation to a fun series. I see a lot of young people watching Sex and the City.
I started watching it when I was at my grandma’s (she has tv), and I really liked it. It was enjoyable and thought provoking–at least the episodes I saw. I liked the one where Carrie started dating a bisexual, and started freaking out about whether or not he was checking out a guy or a girl.
People are still religiously watching Friends reruns in my home country – thousands of miles away from NYC! :))
I visited the Friends’ set in Warner Bros studio, posted my picture there on my FB, and in seconds got swamped with comments and likes from my multinational friends LOL.
I wouldn’t want to see a Friends reunion anyway.
If she is engaged, good for her, have always liked her.
Her face is looking scary. She was so pretty. It’s sad she felt the need to do that. It also looks like she has new boobs.
Her face looks better here, but go back & watch the beginning of the most recent season of Cougar Town. It is really just sad, her face looked terrible. At one point it almost looked like she had an allergic reaction because her face was so puffy & swollen. She should have left her face alone & put on 10 lbs. At least that would have filled her face out a little, & in a natural way. It made me sad just looking at her.
Does it ever wear off? Or does it wear off and then stretch out the skin, making you look worse, and making you get more?
If she’d just done ‘a sprinkle’ here and there of botox, she would’ve looked AMAZING–probably even without the botox, because she looks like she takes care of herself–she has beautiful skin. Does she smoke?
her face is horribly frozen and it looks difficult to move it.
I think she looks “done”, but for 49 and in a competitive madhouse called Hollywood … she is ok. And she is doing really well, I have to admit: good show, a movie, hot boyfriend.
I’d say she is much better off than Aniston
They should leave that one well alone, if they did a special maybe but a movie would be ridiculous and would lose the spark. Sex and the City was able to do a movie due to the various locations of the city but Friends was a sitcom filmed in a studio. Makes no sense!
They just want more money.
I suspect that none of them want to be compared to their younger prettier selves and I’m totally looking at the guys when I say that.
Everyone involved has been saying no way since day one. If they were going to do it this would be the year (20 years since it first aired, 10 years since it ended), but everyone, from the actors to the showrunners to the writers just keeps shutting it down.
They’ve all done a good job of holding onto their Friends money, none of them are desperate for a big pay-day.
Some musings: Cougar Town is unwatchable; not just because of Courteney’s face, but it’s just terrible. Johnny McDaid is extremely handsome. I am glad for her; she deserves happiness. I agree with @Teresa Maria; she has one up on Aniston.
Her boyfriend, Johnny McDaid, is not cool. He dated my friend’s daughter (also a musician like JMcD) for two years and then dumped her when he met CC. Funny thing is that my friend’s daughter really resembles a much younger, prettier CC.
Who wouldnt dump their girlfriend for Courtney? Im sure your daughters friend is nothing compared to her.
Interesting opinion since you’ve never met either woman.
Oh how interesting! Not about the poor girl he dumped, though. I feel for her. Any details about Johnny you can divulge?
I think he is a pretty good guy from a close knit Irish family. Just unfortunate he jumped ship when someone high profile paid him attention. They were talking marriage before CC came on the scene.
Boo. I was thinking he was kinda cute. Now, maybe not so much.
That’s rough, but she’s better off. Any guy who would dump a 2 year relationship for another woman might’ve gone on to cheat on her anyway.
I agree but it was a very tough break up for her. She’s gorgeous and talented. Ironically, her dad is one of the two members of The Rembrandts who wrote and sang the “Friends” theme song, “I’ll Be There For You.”
I’ve always loved her personality, she seems really grounded and refreshingly honest. But geesh, that botox isn’t doing her any favors!
Gurrl those cheeks. Looks like 2 bumpits under there.
It still makes me sad that someone as beautiful as she was felt the need to do plastic surgery. She is an crazy good shape though! I don’t watch her show but am glad to hear she is getting into directing.
Blue is her color. But she needs to stop jacking with her face.
Wasn’t it the producers or writers that said no reunion because none of the actors looked the same anymore? (E! live)
It is such a shame what she has done to her face. I always thought CC was the prettiest one on Friends (and Lisa Kudrow the funniest. As for the other one, I never understood her appeal, at all, ever. Balls! ;)). I always wondered why Courtney never really had a break out star making role though. I always thought she’d have a ‘bigger’ career than she has.
I was only watching a re-run of Friends the other night (as I do every night!) and thinking to myself just how stunning CC looked. She never needed to touch her face *le sigh*
OAN, I only just realised that CC’s daughter’s name is a derivative of the first two letters from her first and last name. Can’t believe it took me 10 years to realise that *facepalm*