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Jennifer Aniston unveiled a selection of behind-the-scenes snapshots from her recently-aired Friends reunion this week as she continued to "bask in all the love."
The actress, 52, was last week seen getting back together with her sitcom co-stars Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry for HBO Max's long-awaited retrospective Friends: The Reunion.
And as fans the world over continue to revel in all things Friends, Aniston took to Instagram to share a heartwarming image of herself posing with all of her main co-stars on the Warner Bros. set where they shot the special in April.
Wearing a plunging black top, Aniston was seen smiling as she angled her smartphone to catch her co-stars, who merrily leaned in for the shot.
"Still basking in all the love from the #FriendsReunion," she wrote in an accompanying caption. "Thank you each and every one of you."
Other images in the upload showed guest Justin Bieber sitting on the set with his wife Hailey and Schwimmer, and the actress posing with veteran TV director James Burrows.
She added in her caption: "Swipe for... The bazillionth selfie taken with the five of us... When two TOTALLY different worlds collide - @_schwim_'s face says it all... The legend himself, our director of the first season, Papa James Burrows."
Aniston's social media post comes after she spoke candidly about her experience shooting the reunion special, 17 years after the hit NBC sitcom came to an end.
"It was a sucker punch in the heart in a way," she said during a recent appearance on Gayle King's SiriusXM show, Gayle King in the House.
The actress, who played Rachel Green on Friends from its 1994 debut until its 2004 conclusion, also revealed that it was an emotional experience for the others.
"It was for all of us, I think," she said. "Even Courteney we got tears out of! And I don't even know—she's so, you know, not emotional."
She also admitted to being unprepared for just how much attention to detail would be paid to recreating the old set for the two-hour special.
"We were very naive in what we were expecting," the star admitted, observing that everything was rebuilt "down to the shelves and the little tchotchkes details."
On how her castmates felt in the lead-up, Aniston said: "It was excitement. [Like] 'This is going to be so fun to walk onto the set and they're bringing all of the sets out from storage and putting it all back together.' We romanticized it."
She added: "You also have to remember we haven't been there [since filming the finale]. That time was a very specific time when we were saying goodbye to something that we didn't want to, we cared deeply about, but we knew it was the time to say goodbye.
"Our lives were ahead of us. We had our future ahead of us. And it almost felt like time had stopped and we time-traveled."
Hosted by James Corden, Friends: The Reunion featured a host of guest stars, including Reese Witherspoon, Tom Selleck, Lady Gaga, BTS, David Beckham, Cindy Crawford, Malala Yousafzai, and Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington.
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