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FriendsJennifer Aniston
Rachel GreenFavorite episode Season 8's ''The One Where Rachel Has a Baby (Parts I and II),'' in which Rachel gives birth to Emma, and Joey accidentally proposes to her with Ross' ring. ''Not only was it very powerful for me, it was just funny -- great characters coming in and out of our hospital room. Debi Mazar kept calling her husband a rat bastard. And then Maggie Wheeler [''Oh…My…Gawd!'' Janice] came in.... It felt like a farce. That's what I love about 'Friends,' those situations of slightly suspended reality. I love when Schwimmer and I have stuff together, it's always dreamy.... The birth was challenging since I've never done it before. I've only watched girlfriends, so I just copied them. It was also hard to play the postpartum sadness: Oh-I-have-a-baby-and-I-don't-have-Ross. I always have a hard time playing as I call them 'saccharine-y' moments of 'Friends.' [But] I was really happy with how it came out.''
Stock quote about saying goodbye ''Everyone took as much time as we could throughout the show. Usually we're like, 'Are we going to finish by 8 p.m.? You wanna go do something?' We just kept trying to prolong and [the producers] would come up and say, 'We don't have any notes,' and we were like, 'What? Are you sure? You don't want to do that again?' And then the inevitable last scene arrived and ouch. I don't even know how to say it -- just a big ouch.''
Cryptic finale hint ''One of us leaves.''
On doing a reunion show ''No, no. Because I think that would cheapen it. Do you remember the 'Brady Bunch' reunion show? You remember the 'Happy Days' reunion show? Were they ever good? Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap.''
Last time you went into a coffeehouse ''Yesterday, in London.''
Worst thing about making a million dollars per episode ''If you can think of one, tell me.''
Keepsake prop ''When they broke the coffeehouse down, I called the neon cup of coffee that has steam coming out of it right by the door. That's mine. Don't even think they're going to put that in the Smithsonian.''
Next A dramedy by ''Ocean's Eleven'' screenwriter Ted Griffin
