Friends paid tribute to Jennifer Aniston’s Greek heritage with Easter egg in The One with Chandler and Monica’s Wedding
Friends paid tribute to Jennifer Aniston’s Greek heritage by placing an Easter egg in the episode The One with Chandler and Monica’s Wedding.
In the episode, the groom goes missing and Joey is late to officiate the wedding, leaving it up to Rachel Green (Jennifer) to find a new minister for the ceremony.
As she searches the hotel for a minister, she comes across another wedding going on for the Anastassakis and Papasifakis families.
Family ties: Friends paid tribute to Jennifer Aniston’s Greek heritage by placing an Easter egg in the episode The One with Chandler and Monica’s Wedding
Turns out the name Anastassakis is her father’s surname.
Jennifer’s father John Aniston, who hails from the island of Crete, Greece, was born Yiannis Antonios Anastasakis.
The two-part episode aired nearly 20 years ago, but fans are still having fun discovering the Easter egg.
Jennifer played Rachel Green in the hit series about a group of twenty-somethings living in New York City from 1994 to 2004.
Classic: The two-part episode sees Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) and Monica Gellar (Courteney Cox) tie the knot, with Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) officiating
The role catapulted Jennifer and her costars into super stardom, and the show remains a fan favorite even 16 years after it aired it’s finale.
Recently, however, Jennifer admitted she felt typecast after playing the bubbly character as she attempted to land edgier roles following Friends.
In a roundtable interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer admitted that she had fought ‘forever’ for the industry to see her as something different than ‘that girl in the New York apartment with the purple walls.’
Family ties: Jennifer’s father John Aniston, who hails from Crete, Greece, was born Yiannis Antonios Anastasakis
She said: ‘I could not get Rachel Green off of my back for the life of me. I could not escape “Rachel from Friends,” and it’s on all the time and you’re like, “Stop playing that f***ing show!” (Laughter.)’
The actress said that her turn in the 2002 independent movie The Good Girl was ‘the first time I got to really shed whatever the Rachel character was, and to be able to disappear into someone who wasn’t’ adding that the edgy role was ‘such a relief’ to her.
She continued: ‘But I remember the panic that set over me, thinking, “Oh God, I don’t know if I can do this. Maybe they’re right. Maybe everybody else is seeing something I’m not seeing, which is you are only that girl in the New York apartment with the purple walls.’
‘So, I was almost doing it for myself just to see if I could do something other than that. And it was terrifying because you’re doing it in front of the world.’
Meanwhile, a Friends reunion was set to begin filming back in March, but was postponed on account of the coronavirus crisis.
The reunion may now begin filming in August, show co-creator Marta Kauffman told The Wrap.
BFFs! The role catapulted Jennifer and her costars into super stardom, and the show remains a fan favorite even 16 years after it aired it’s finale