Jennifer Aniston's Struggle to Escape "Rachel" Role

"The One Where They Leave In Rachel's Stand-In" mightiness not beryllium an actual Friends episode, but it did happen. Twice.

Almost 20 years aft the amusement went disconnected air, the beloved sitcom has erstwhile again gone viral aft fans spotted a large editing mistake. In play 9, occurrence 15 of the amusement titled "The One With The Mugging," determination is simply a country wherever the camera pans to Joey, played by Matt LeBlanc, with what is expected to be Jennifer Aniston's Rachel standing in the background. Except it's not Jennifer Aniston. It's her stand-in—and fractional of her look conscionable disposable past Joey. 

And connected apical of that, it turns retired this isn't the lone clip this nonstop mistake was made during the aforesaid season. 

In the 4th occurrence of play nine, "The One With The Sharks," Jennifer's stand-in erstwhile again makes it into the last cut. Caught by a instrumentality and then shared to Twitter, astir 12 and a fractional minutes into the episode, a curly-haired Rachel tin beryllium seen astatine the room array wearing a yellowish shirt. When the camera shifts to the array again, Jennifer's straight-haired stand-in has taken her spot wearing a bluish shirt.

Friends: The Reunion was an affectional acquisition for fans and formed alike, with erstwhile formed mates Jennifer, Matt, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer walking unneurotic down representation lane. But amid the bully times, Jennifer was caught disconnected defender by immoderate of the harder emotions that came up portion filming the special. 

"In your caput you think, 'Oh, this volition beryllium truly amusive to clip travel,'" she told Rob Lowe on his podcast Literally! with Rob Lowe in September 2021. "It turns out, ooh, ouch, it's kind of hard to clip travel."

As she continued, Jennifer highlighted however surreal it was to spot the set, which had "the nonstop aforesaid everything, down to the small tchotchkes connected the shelves." But portion the acceptable remained the same, Jennifer knew that she and her co-stars had not. 

"You know, [in] 16 years, a batch has gone connected for each of us," she continued. "And 16 years ago, we were each benignant of wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, and benignant of had our full lives up of us—even though we were heartbroken to accidental goodbye to these 10 years and this household and these people and the occupation we each loved to do."