Cole Sprouse admitted Jennifer Aniston was ‘really, really hard’ to work with
Cole Sprouse previously opened up about what it was like working with Jennifer Aniston back when he was just seven years old.
With the twin having pretty much grown up on our TV screens, he worked with the We’re the Millers actor when he was pretty young.
Obviously, Aniston wasn’t paying visits to the Tipton Hotel on Disney Channel, nor did she star in the iconic Big Daddy with Adam Sandler.
But Sprouse, of course, played the role of Ben in Friends – Ross Geller’s (David Schwimmer) son.
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He only actually appeared in a handful of episodes of the sitcom, but little Ben made an impression on many fans, and it seems Aniston made an impression on Sprouse.
Back in 2017, all grown up, the former Riverdale star revealed he found it pretty ‘hard’ working with the Rachel Green actor.
As in, he had a ‘really, really hard time’ working with Aniston on set because he ‘was so in love with her’.
“I was infatuated,” Sprouse told the New York Post. “I was speechless — I’d get all bubbly and forget my lines and completely blank … It was so difficult.”
He described working on Friends as a ‘really wonderful experience’ with all the cast being ‘tremendously nice’.
“The scale was just tremendous, and you felt it when you stepped on set, even as a kid,” the star explained. “It was challenging because I was a small kid who was working with these sort of megalithic actors at the time. It was quite intimidating”
At the time of that interview, the actor admitted he hadn’t really seen much of the cast since the days of filming.
“If I saw any of them, I’d say, ‘Hello’,” he added.
“But it’s been a while, and I certainly don’t look the same, so it’d be a hard sell. And if I did look the same, that’d be a little disconcerting.”
Sprouse also previously opened up about the ‘trauma’ of being a child star, having had a ‘complicated relationship with celebrity culture’.
He reflected on how he and his brother, Dylan, used to be told they had made it through the experience of child stardom 'unscathed', but argued they could not compare their experiences to 'the young women on the channel [they] were on'.
“[The women] were so heavily sexualised from such an earlier age than my brother and I that there’s absolutely no way that we could compare our experiences,” he added to The New York Times.
“And every single person going through that trauma has a unique experience. When we talk about child stars going nuts, what we’re not actually talking about is how fame is a trauma."
Topics: Jennifer Aniston, Friends, TV, Nostalgia, Celebrity
Jess Battison