Lisa Kudrow Grows Emotional Revisiting "Friends" Soundstage More Than 20 Years After Show Wrapped Virginia ChamleeFebruary 7, 2026 at 1:40 AM 0 Lisa Kudrow Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage; Warner Bros. Television via Getty Lisa Kudrow paid a visit to the Warner Brothers soundstage where Friends was filmed The bulk of the series was filmed on Stage 24, Kudrow shared in a video filmed for Architectural Digest Kudrow returned to Stage 24 to shoot the third and final season of HBO's The Comeback Lisa Kudrow is reminiscing about the studio lot that played host to Friends for 10 seasons.
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Virginia ChamleeFebruary 7, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Lisa Kudrow paid a visit to the Warner Brothers soundstage where Friends was filmed
The bulk of the series was filmed on Stage 24, Kudrow shared in a video filmed for Architectural Digest
Kudrow returned to Stage 24 to shoot the third and final season of HBO's The Comeback
Lisa Kudrow is reminiscing about the studio lot that played host to Friends for 10 seasons.
In a video filmed for Architectural Digest, the 62-year-old actress visited the Warner Brothers soundstage, where the sitcom was filmed.
For its first season, Friends was filmed on a small soundstage known as Stage 5 — "right next to where ER was shooting — so we'd hang out with them a lot," Kudrow said in the AD video.
After its first season, when the show grew in popularity, it moved to a larger soundstage on the same lot in order to accommodate a large studio audience.
"That was Stage 24, and that's where we were for 10 years," she said.
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David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller on Friends
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Kudrow returned to Stage 24 to shoot the third and final season of HBO's The Comeback.
"So I got to finish Friends, after 10 years, and [film] The Comeback," the actress said, growing visibly emotional.
"Wasn't expecting to get emotional, sorry," she said, adding of her time shooting Friends: "After a point, we didn't leave the soundstage, even for lunch, because there were tours and things."
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Elsewhere in the AD video, Kudrow noted that the studio's future hangs in the balance as Warner Brothers is currently in negotiations to be acquired by Netflix.
"I think most people really, really hope whatever happens next is that this studio lot is preserved, as-is," she said.
Kudrow played Phoebe Buffay on Friends, which also starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry.
Kudrow shared that she had begun watching the beloved NBC sitcom for the first time, after years of resisting, back in 2024, saying on Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Dinner's on Me podcast, "God forbid, if anyone walked into my house and saw me watching my show, I'd be mortified."
"But after Matthew passed away, there were marathons, and I wanted to watch. It felt like part of the remembering, grieving, remembering, all that, and just enjoying, and celebrating. And, boy, I appreciated everybody on it," she added.
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Published: February 06, 2026 at 08:01PM on Source: MARIO MAG
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