Jason Ritter is still aiming for a role on Tracker — even if it means getting to be a “damsel in distress” who is saved by Justin Hartley.

“Justin and I are very friendly. I really love him. He’s such a nice guy,” Ritter, 46, exclusively told Us Weekly while suggesting a possible Tracker crossover with Matlock. “Julian is going to be looking for new positions so maybe he can train me in his tracking ways and I can help him find some people.”

Matlock, which premiered in September 2024, follows a wealthy retired lawyer named Madeline Kingston (Kathy Bates), who pretends to be a poor widower named Matty Matlock to get a job at Jacobson Moore law firm.

Then there’s Tracker, which follows Hartley’s Colter Shaw as he solves missing cases for a reward.

“If Tracker ever wants a partner [for Justin’s character, Colter], maybe Julian leaves the firm and he starts a new life,” Ritter previously joked with Us Weekly in August 2025. “Just two rugged guys.”

At the time, Ritter’s costar Skye P. Marshall weighed in on his idea.

“Jason comes to set now, and he squints his eyes and he tries to play a rugged guy. And we’re like, ‘Can you please stop?’” she quipped in September 2025. “And he’ll put his foot up on the chair and squint his eyes like James Dean. It makes my stomach crawl. I was like, ‘You’re not a rugged guy, OK?’”

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Marshall would still love to see Ritter share the screen with Hartley, 59. “But I feel like he’d be the guy that gets kidnapped,” she joked. “Please don’t give Jason Ritter a gun.”

Ritter couldn’t help but agree with Marshall’s assessment, telling Us earlier this month, “She’s probably right. Who knows? It’s TV, so anything can happen. A guy like me can be a hero on TV but in real life, if I was on Tracker, I’d be like, ‘All right, I got these guys … Oh, one of them snuck up behind me and that’s the end for me. Save me, please. I’ve made this mission 20 times harder by being captured.’”

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After the actor noted that he is “very good at being someone who needs to be saved,” Us suggested that Ritter play Hartley’s “next damsel in distress.”

“There you go,” Ritter replied. “Anytime, Justin.”

Tracker airs on CBS Sundays at 9 p.m. ET before streaming the next day on Paramount+.

Fresh legal drama surrounding Rebel Wilson has taken a darker turn as explosive new allegations surface in court.

A rising actor’s claims have reignited scrutiny around the Hollywood star, with accusations ranging from hacking to harassment.

As the case unfolds, disturbing details and emotional testimony are reshaping the narrative and drawing intense public attention once again.

The controversy stems from a lawsuit filed by actor Charlotte MacInnes, who alleges that Rebel Wilson hacked into her Snapchat account and distributed private images without consent.

According to court documents, the alleged incident involved deeply personal material being shared widely.

“Once I regained access to my account, I could see that whoever had hacked into the account had saved a nude photo of me that I had sent to my boyfriend and also uploaded a photo of a vagina (that wasn’t mine),” Ms. MacInnes stated in her affidavit per News.com.au.

She further alleged, “They then sent these two photos to all of my contacts on Snapchat, including my family, as well as many strangers.”

The actor claimed the ordeal was orchestrated by Wilson, adding, “I believe that this was orchestrated by Rebel,” and describing the experience as deeply distressing.

“It was completely terrifying and caused me a new kind of anxiety. I was not myself for some time after,” she said.

Rebel Wilson Faces Claims Of Bullying And Reputation Damage

Beyond the alleged leak, MacInnes accused Rebel Wilson of publicly damaging her reputation through social media posts.

The young actor said she once admired the star but was left feeling targeted and humiliated.

“I remember crying every day for weeks (after the social media posts),” she revealed in her affidavit.

She also expressed frustration over what she described as a contradiction in Wilson’s public image, stating, “It was ‘sickening that Rebel presented herself as a whistleblower who spoke out to protect me’ when she ‘has only acted spitefully towards me with constant bullying and harassment.’”

MacInnes further alleged, “I was also angry that Rebel claims to be someone who stands up for women and young Australian talent but then was so maliciously and unfairly persisting with a narrative that painted me as a liar, prostitute, sell out, and whore.”

“I was confused as to how she had ever been accepted by this industry as a respectful professional, as it felt to me that these actions were somehow comfortable to her,” she added.

Rebel Wilson Case Expands With Claims Involving Her Wife

The legal battle has also pulled in Wilson’s wife, Ramona Agruma, after MacInnes accused her of making social media posts that appeared to mock her testimony. One such post featured a reference to the animated character Dory.

“I suffer from short-term memory loss … or do I? I can’t remember,” the post read.

MacInnes told the court, “I felt as though she was mocking the evidence that I gave,” describing the impact of the post during ongoing proceedings.

The accusation came after MacInnes faced questioning over travel expenses during cross-examination, which she later clarified under re-examination by her legal team.

Conflicting Accounts Over Key Incident Raise Questions

At the center of the dispute is an incident involving a bath shared between MacInnes and producer Amanda Ghost in 2023.

Rebel Wilson has claimed the young actor initially expressed discomfort before allegedly retracting the complaint.

However, MacInnes has strongly denied ever making such a claim, maintaining that she “never” said she felt uncomfortable.

Meanwhile, Ghost offered her own perspective in court, acknowledging tension in the situation. “I wasn’t annoyed at the beginning, I was annoyed after Rebel presented a case against her to me,” she testified.

According to testimony, Ghost later admitted feeling so upset at one point that she “couldn’t even look at her,” though she also described herself as “shocked” rather than consistently angry.

Legal Battle Intensifies As New Details Emerge

Additional claims in the case have added further complexity, including allegations about the working environment during the production of “The Deb.”

MacInnes denied suggestions that she was forced into uncomfortable situations.

“Amanda did not force me to stay with her – she invited me to…Amanda didn’t have ‘sexual conversations’ with me,” she said in her affidavit.

The court also heard about text messages exchanged following the alleged incident.

“Charlotte says all good. She just meant ‘it was a bizarre situation’ not that she personally felt uncomfortable x,” Wilson reportedly wrote.

“Oh thank f**k for that!!” the producer responded.

Despite these exchanges, the case continues to highlight sharply conflicting accounts from those involved.

As proceedings move forward, the allegations and testimonies are expected to remain under intense scrutiny while the trial continues.

The 2000s might’ve kicked off a new century, but openings are not the right topic for right now. Just the opposite: endings! Every movie needs an ending, and pretty much every good movie also needs a good ending, because it’s fairly rare to find a satisfying film that has a lackluster conclusion.

That’s certainly not a problem for any of the movies below, with some of them being great throughout and then that greatness continues through to the final scene, while others are generally good movies that get elevated thanks to how effectively they end. There is, inevitably, a need to go into spoiler territory when talking about movie endings, so consider that a pretty casual warning (none of these are new releases, after all, since the 2000s ended, like, about 17 years ago, at the time of writing).

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‘There Will Be Blood’ (2007)

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Punch-Drunk Love was a pretty great Paul Thomas Anderson movie from the 2000s, but There Will Be Blood is the best film of his, not just of the decade, but – some might argue – of his entire directorial career. It’s an epic that’s also very much just centered on one man, being lengthy with its runtime and grand with its visuals, but largely a psychological drama that’s quite intimate (and unsettling) as a character study.

Very slowly, and over many years, Daniel Plainview unravels psychologically, even as he keeps gaining wealth, property, and power. What do you know: it’s never enough. And he explodes at the very end of There Will Be Blood, and it’s at that point that you actually see quite a bit of the titular blood. Oh, not because he literally explodes, but because he beats Eli Sunday to death with a bowling pin. Somehow, it’s the only logical way this film could’ve ended, really.

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‘Mulholland Drive’ (2001)

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One of those “It makes sense once you’ve seen the movie a few times” endings, Mulholland Drive does admittedly conclude in a way that runs the risk of feeling nonsensical the first time around. There’s a switch made going into the final act that’s intentionally disorientating, and feels like a nightmare compared to some (not all) of what came before, but it works more once you catch on to the final act being more reality than nightmare.

There are still surreal sights, including a tiny elderly couple, and still more to unpack beyond “much of the preceding movie was a dream,” but it’s all striking and leaves an impact, more confusing at first, and later deeply troubling and eerie. There are reasons to consider Mulholland Drive David Lynch’s best film beyond the ending being striking, of course, but the ultimate conclusion does help quite a lot in that regard.

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‘Saw’ (2004)

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Sure, Saw is not a perfect movie, and maybe you could even say the ending is imperfect if you want to argue it’s all a bit wild and implausible, but whatever. The ending is awesome. There’s a dead body in a room two men are trapped in the whole movie, and then it turns out the body is not dead, and it’s actually the guy who’s responsible for them being trapped. And he sits up as his whole scheme is unveiled; it’s great.

And it’s kind of silly. The ending to Saw is over-the-top, but it’s here on the basis of it being the right kind of over-the-top, whereas some of the sequels trying to outdo the twist ending here kind of face-planted, or went genuinely too far. There are still fun Saw movies released following the original, especially if you like your soap opera-esque storytelling accompanied by hyper-violence, for whatever reason, but Saw (2004) is still the best, and it’s also the film in the long-running series with the greatest ending.

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‘Dancer in the Dark’ (2000)

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Dancer in the Dark is easily up there among the heaviest musicals ever made, and the ending is a big reason for that. Not that the movie before the final scene is very cheery, but it’s the sort of miserable film where the predicament the main character’s in just gets worse and worse on a scene-by-scene basis, since she’s slowly losing her eyesight and then ends up committing a murder under circumstances that are not well expressed during her trial.

So, she ends up being sentenced to death, and the film slowly builds up to her execution, with the only glimmer of hope being that she successfully got her son an operation to prevent him from succumbing to blindness the way she has. Björk’s acting sells the horror and tragedy of the ending eerily well, as does the realistic and somewhat nauseous way the film’s shot. You almost feel like you’re really there, even though you probably don’t want to be.

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‘Children of Men’ (2006)

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There’s very little peace found throughout Children of Men, which is an overall relentless and unapologetically grim sci-fi/dystopian movie about a world where humanity is at risk of dying out because infertility is affecting the whole population. Yet somehow, a woman gets pregnant, and then she needs to be taken to (what’s purportedly) a safe location, so that no one shifty can get hold of her for their own gains.

It’s a film about saving everyone and everything, showcasing countless sacrifices and horrible things that happen along the way to achieving that goal, including almost every named character but the pregnant woman and her newborn baby dying. At the end of Children of Men, it is probably achieved. There’s some ambiguity, but it’s not really as frustrating because the peacefulness that comes alongside that slight uncertainty is just so welcome after a really brutal and high-intensity film. Also, that very last shot is undeniably visually striking (just like most of the film, really).

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‘Gladiator’ (2000)

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Moving fast for something so long, Gladiator is a real streamlined sort of epic that doesn’t really mess around when it comes to telling a story that’s equal parts straightforward and satisfying. There’s an emperor who’s murdered by his son, and then a general who’s betrayed and becomes a gladiatorial slave, and someone with nothing left but a desire to get revenge.

And so it’s not a surprise when he gets it at the end, and inspires the people of Rome to consider doing away with the Empire and becoming a Republic again (which doesn’t stick, come Gladiator II, but then again, does anyone really care about – or even remember – Gladiator II anymore?). It’s a crowd-pleasing sort of ending to a very crowd-pleasing and easy-to-like epic movie, with even the hero’s death being a moment of catharsis, since he believes in the afterlife and gets to see his murdered family again once arriving there.

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‘Gangs of New York’ (2002)

In 2002, there was some controversy over the World Trade Center being visible in the final shot of Gangs of New York, but the decision to keep it in feels like the right one now. Martin Scorsese himself explained it well, saying: “The people in the film were part of the creation of that skyline, not the destruction of it. And if the skyline collapses, ultimately, they will build another one.”

And Gangs of New York is a movie about the history of New York City, mostly in terms of its violent past, with the ending montage showing the skyline growing with skyscrapers and all into what was almost the present-day, at the time of the film’s release. The movie itself is quite good before that point, but it’s a case of the ending being the most powerful moment of the thing, and elevating the overall film from good to great.

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‘Oldboy’ (2003)

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Sincerely containing one of the best plot twists in cinema history, Oldboy just ends in the most wildly uncomfortable of ways, but it inevitably makes a twisted sort of sense and feels logical. The main character has been on his own quest for revenge the whole movie, having been imprisoned by someone under mysterious circumstances for 15 years, but then he finds out the truth about why he was kept captive, and it’s a lot, to say the least.

He himself was a target of revenge for an old classmate, and there are some really twisted ways that classmate got vengeance, with the psychological toll ultimately being even ghastlier than the physical toll of the years of imprisonment. Oldboy is great all the way through, but it is one of those films where the ending more or less makes it legendary (well, that or the famed one-shot hallway fight sequence).

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‘The Mist’ (2007)

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The Mist was a novella that appeared in Skeleton Crew, which was a short story compilation written by Stephen King (The Mist being a good deal longer than most of the other selections there). It’s one of a handful of stories where King tackles Lovecraftian horror, and he does it really well, with the premise involving a group of people trapped inside a small town’s supermarket after the titular mist falls over the town and brings with it countless strange creatures.

2007’s The Mist came out more than 20 years after the novella, so it was a fair time coming, considering some King adaptations are made not long after publication (see Christine, with the book and movie coming out the same year), but it was worthy of the original story. And, famously, it had a more devastating ending that trades in the unease of the novella’s more ambiguous ending for a full-blown tragic one that feels like it could well be the heaviest final movie scene of the 21st century so far.

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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ (2003)

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There was an overwhelming number of things to consider for the ending of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The source material has a series of endings that go on for much longer than the movie trilogy, which can make the stereotypical complaint about The Return of the King having “too many endings” sound more than a little ridiculous. After a novel that spans well over 1000 pages, there are an additional 100-ish pages of appendices, with much of the writing there feeling like a series of epilogues.

One feels J.R.R. Tolkien not wanting to bid the world and the characters farewell, and you can’t entirely blame him. So, Peter Jackson giving his adaptation a few scenes that feel like endings seems like showing restraint, in comparison. And what was picked here is pretty much perfect, with the final stretch of The Return of the King being both an incredible ending for the third movie in the trilogy, and a beyond fitting conclusion for that trilogy as a whole.

Fans have been flooding social media with reactions after Megan Thee Stallion dropped a bombshell update that she and Klay Thompson have split. She also shared an official statement with TMZ confirming the news and making it clear that trust and respect are non-negotiable for her. Since Meg’s announcement, fans have been riding hard for her and showing her major love online. Her latest Instagram post has pulled in tons of comments from the Hot Girls, who have been letting her know they stand solid with her though the breakup news.

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Hot Girls Ride For Megan Thee Stallion Amid Split With Klay Thompson

The Hotties have been flooding the comment section of Megan Thee Stallion’s latest Instagram post with reactions to her breakup with Klay Thompson. Meg dropped a carousel of photos last week, where she promoted her Cheetos Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle bag partnership. The images show her posing in a black latex outfit while holding the chips bag. See the post and reactions below.

Fans Stand Ten Toes Down Behind Meg

The Hot Girls immediately united in her comment section. Plenty of girlies said they were ready to ride at dawn for her, while others said they don’t understand how Klay could’ve done her dirty.

Instagram user @mizteefranklin wrote, “WE LOVE YOU MEG!!!!!” 

Instagram user @tatianafitk wrote, “THE AUDACITY OF HIM (yes I’m parasocial)” 

While Instagram user @notahoeiswear wrote, “Klay just fumbled all this ? i am out of words 🫠” 

Then Instagram user @itsjustkeya__ wrote, “I’m so sorry @theestallion he didn’t deserve you sis!!! On to the NEXT!!!!!” 

Another Instagram user @sapphic.la wrote, “WE RIDE AT DAWN FOR U QUEEN.” 

Instagram user @abbyyiiee wrote, “We love you Megan! Sending you good vibes and prayers ❤️” 

While another Instagram user @kyndall.xoxo_ wrote, “We love Megan!😍 these 🥷s be jokes! U don’t need no one queen 😩”

Then another Instagram user @sunni_dee wrote, “Run it up Meg!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Hotties trained to drag this n***a to HELLLL 😂😂😜😜” 

Instagram user @hijamzzi3 wrote, “He lost the most gorgeous woman in history….A DAMN SHAME.” 

Lastly, Instagram user @that.wahala.libra wrote, “I’m sick behind my sister’s heart being hurt and broken 😭” 

Here’s What Meg Said About Her Breakup With Klay

On Saturday, April 25, Megan Thee Stallion shocked fans when she dropped a message on her IG Story about cheating and getting mistreated during basketball season. Folks online immediately clocked hte post and assumed it was aimed at Klay Thompson.

“Cheating, had me around your whole family playing house…got ‘cold feet’ Holding you down through all your HORRIBLE mood swings and treatment towards me during your basketball season now you don’t know if you can be ‘monogamous’???? b*tch I need a REAL break after this one..bye yall.”

After her IG post, TMZ reported that she confirmed their breakup in an exclusive statement. She told the outlet she ended things because “fidelity and respect are non-negotiable for her.”

“I’ve made the decision to end my relationship with Klay. Trust, fidelity, and respect are non-negotiable for me in a relationship, and when those are compromised, there’s no real path forward. I’m taking this time to prioritize myself and move ahead with peace and clarity.”

Does Pardison Fontaine Want That Old Thang Back?

Amid the breakup news, fans started thinking Megan’s ex Pardison Fontaine had reacted to the situation. He dropped a video on social media singing lyrics from Jagged Edge’s ‘He Can’t Love U.’ After The Shade Room posted the clip of Pardi, plenty of Roommates thought he was trying to get Meg’s attention since the lyrics say: “He can’t love you like I love you / Baby you know it too. And you should never wanna be with a man If he can’t be a man / And do the things to you like I can.” As of right now, Pardison hasn’t confirmed whether his post was directed towards Meg and Klay’s breakup. Meg and Pardi started dating in 2021 and later confirmed their breakup in November 2023.

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Megan Thee Stallion and her NBA star boyfriend, Klay Thompson, have broken up amid accusations of infidelity.

“I’ve made the decision to end my relationship with Klay,” Megan, 31, tells Us Weekly in a Saturday, April 25, statement. “Trust, fidelity and respect are non-negotiable for me in a relationship, and when those values are compromised, there’s no real path forward.”

She continued, “I’m taking this time to prioritize myself and move ahead with peace and clarity.”

Several hours earlier, Megan appeared to publicly claim that Klay, 36, had been unfaithful during their relationship.

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“Cheating, had me around your whole family playing house … got ‘cold feet,’” Megan wrote via her Instagram Stories earlier on Saturday without mentioning Klay by name. “Holding you down through all your HORRIBLE mood swings and treatment towards me during your basketball season.”

She added, “Now you don’t know if you can be ‘monogamous???’ Bitch, I need a real break after this one. Bye y’all.”

Klay has not publicly addressed his relationship status or the cheating accusations. Us Weekly has reached out to the athlete’s rep for comment.

Megan and Klay were first romantically linked in July 2025, making their red carpet debut later that month at her Pete & Thomas Foundation Gala. (Megan started the nonprofit in 2022 to support women, children, seniors and underserved communities in Houston, Texas.)

“Well, it feels incredible because Megan is such a special person and she inspires so many around the world. I’ve seen it firsthand,” Klay exclusively told Us on the red carpet. “This is just another incredible feat of hers to be able to give back, create [a] foundation and raise a ton of money for those in need. I’m honored to be here by her side.”

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The gala was held in honor of Megan’s late parents, whom Klay told Us that he “would have loved to meet.”

“I know both of them would be so proud of their only daughter because of what — not only what she’s been able to accomplish, what she’s also going to continue to do,” Klay said at the time. “She has never been put in a box, or allowed herself to be in a box, and she just continues to inspire so many people around the world. And, on top of that, raise a ton of money this evening and just do so much for so many in need.”

Megan previously dated Pardison Fontaine and Torrey Craig, respectively.

Lisa Kudrow is looking back on “Friends” with a different perspective following the death of her co-star Matthew Perry.

Reflecting on the sitcom that made her a global star, the actress said the show now feels more meaningful than ever. She also revealed how revisiting the sitcom has become difficult in the wake of Perry’s death, as it reminds her she’ll never again experience Perry’s presence and talent off-screen.

More than two decades after “Friends” first aired, the sitcom remains a cultural staple, still pulling in new generations of fans.

Kudrow was at the center of that success, starring alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and the late Perry.

Now, Kudrow says her view of the show has shifted, especially after revisiting it following Perry’s death.

“After Matthew died, I watched the show again,” she told The Times. “Before, I only saw what I did wrong or could have done better. But for the first time, I truly appreciated just how great it was. I felt I did OK, but Jennifer and Courteney? Amazing. David and Matt? They had me laughing so hard. And then Matthew, he was just beyond us all.”

Kudrow Says Matthew Perry’s Death Made ‘Friends’ Hard To Rewatch

While their characters often clashed on “Friends,” Kudrow and Perry shared a much closer bond off-screen.

The actress later honored that friendship by writing the foreword to her co-star’s 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” where she admitted she hadn’t fully grasped the depth of his struggles with addiction.

Now, that realization has made revisiting “Friends” more emotional than ever.

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“Because there was a genius at work,” Kudrow said of Perry’s performance as Chandler. “And whatever any of us do in the future, we will never experience something like that again.”

Lisa Kudrow Once Gave Herself A Deadline To Make It In Hollywood

After “Friends” wrapped in May 2004, the cast branched out in different directions, with varying levels of success.

For Kudrow, the transition led to a steady run in comedy, with roles in films like “Happy Endings,” “Hotel for Dogs,” “Easy A,” and “Neighbors.” She also moved behind the scenes, producing projects including “Web Therapy” and the TLC/NBC series “Who Do You Think You Are?”

However, Kudrow says her career wasn’t always something she took for granted. Early on, she gave herself a limited window to make acting work, with a backup plan already in mind.

“I said to myself, ‘You’re young… Have fun and try it.’ But always in the knowledge that life gets harder. You take on family and responsibilities,” she told The Times.

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The Actress Hesitates On AI Bringing Back ‘Friends’

As AI continues to make inroads in Hollywood, Kudrow isn’t convinced it should be used to revive “Friends.”

When asked whether she’d sign off on a deal allowing her likeness to be used in AI-generated episodes of the hit sitcom, Kudrow made it clear the choice wouldn’t be hers alone.

“Well, it wouldn’t be my decision,” she said. “All the cast would have to agree. Bright, Kauffman, Crane [the show’s creators and producers] would have to agree too.”

Even then, she suggested the idea may not get far. Kudrow noted that not everyone involved would necessarily be interested, regardless of how lucrative the offer might be.

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Lisa Kudrow Reflected On Being Married Before ‘Friends’ success

Away from Hollywood, Kudrow built a stable personal life long before “Friends” turned her into a household name. She has been married for decades to French-born advertising executive Michel Stern, per PEOPLE.

That timing, she says, helped her sidestep the level of public scrutiny that followed co-stars like Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox at the height of the show’s fame.

Reflecting on it now, Kudrow acknowledged the role that decision played, while also stressing the importance of keeping her career separate from her home life.

“For sure, and all because I married early and outside the business,” she said. “No one was interested. There was no story. And very early on, I was pretty clear: actors on a big show are well paid and really looked after. But you cannot take that attitude home with you. At home, it’s family, life, kids.”

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