Courteney Cox Reveals Epic Trip Friends Cast Had Together Before They Were Famous

Courteney Cox has recalled a trip she and her Friends cast mates took before the show aired.

Friends director and TV sitcom legend James 'Jim' Burrows flew out the entire cast to Las Vegas in 1994.

The actor who played Monica Geller told the New York Post that Burrows gave each cast member some money and warned them this will be the last moment they wouldn’t be recognised in public.

She said: “He gave us all $500. And he said, ‘I want you to take care, like, really take notice of this moment because it will be the last time that all six of you together can walk through a casino'.

“And we were like, ‘Really?’ And it was true. We never could never do that (again).”

She added: “I mean, I don’t wanna sound like, ‘Look at us.’ We’re not, you know, the Beatles. But people feel like they know you.

“If we were all to walk down the street, six of us, it would be, I think it would be really interesting to people.”

In 2019, Cox also posted a photo tribute to the infamous Las Vegas Trip with a caption that read: "The one where the six of us went to Vegas and no one knew we were F.R.I.E.N.D.S yet."

The photo shows the six leading actors on a private jet heading to Sin City just before they were catapulted into the world of international stardom.

Burrows also revealed in 2013 that he decided to take the cast on the spontaneous trip as he had a feeling the show would be extremely successful.

 “I said, ‘Once the show comes on the air, you guys will never be able to go anywhere without being hounded.’ I knew the show had a chance to really take off. So I did that and then I said, ‘Do you want to gamble?’ and they said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Okay, go ahead’," he said.

"And all six of them didn’t have any money so they each wrote me checks for $200 and I cashed them. And that was it. They came back and premiered and they don’t have a shot of anonymity anymore.”

The pilot episode of Friends, also known as 'The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate', premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994.

The series ran for 10 seasons and accumulate an average of 22 million viewers per episode, making it one of the biggest TV shows of all time.

So I guess you could say that ‘feeling’ Burrow’s had turned out to be pretty spot on.

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