《老友記》幕後的10件軼事 (6):安妮斯頓差點兒沒出演最後一季

Jennifer almost didn't make the finale

5.珍妮佛·安妮斯頓差點兒沒出演最後一季

Jennifer almost didn’t make the finale

珍妮佛差點兒沒出演大結局

Ok, if you’re going to have a season of Friends without Rachel, you might as well just shut the whole thing down. In the words of Chandler Bing, could the series be any more terrible without Rachel making a substantial appearance in each episode?

如果《老友記》裏有一季瑞秋沒有出現，你可能連整部劇都要放棄了。運用錢德·賓（Chandler Bing）的經典句式（could this be any more）就是，還有什麼比瑞秋不出現在劇集裏更糟糕的呢？

Moreover, you’d probably have to shut the whole thing down if any of the cast members couldn’t appear in a season. There has been various sitcoms with ensemble casts, and on many of these sitcoms cast members would invariably leave after garnering movie fame. With some shows this led to an almost instant dismantling of the series’ magic (um, hi, The Office and That 70’s Show) but somehow these shows would still manage to trudge on for at least a few more seasons.

而且，如果情景連續劇裏有一季主演缺席，你就很有可能不再追這部劇了。很多的情景連續劇都有固定的演員，但劇裏的很多主演小有名氣後便離開劇組。有一些情景連續劇的劇組因此很快解散（比如，《辦公室》（The Office） 和《70年代秀》（70’s Show）），但不管怎樣，這些情景連續劇都會再苦撐多幾季。

That being said, with a show where each member of the ensemble was so intimately conducive to every episode and storyline (sidebar: Chandler and Phoebe were originally going to supporting cast members but thank goodness the creators decided to forego that route), the show wouldn’t have been able to sustain its magic or watchability without each character being involved.

話雖如此，但劇裏的主角角色和每一集的劇情發展都是環環相扣（補充說明：原本設定錢德勒和菲比只是配角，但謝天謝地編劇放棄此想法），如果沒有主角參演，情景連續劇就無法繼續拍攝或者沒看點。

Still, after several seasons, Aniston had garnered substantial fame thanks to movie success and a high profile marriage to movie star Brad Pitt. In an interview, she spoke of her hesitations to continue the series after it had spanned almost a decade.

儘管如此，幾季過後，安妮斯頓因爲她主演的電影大獲成功、並且和電影明星布拉德·彼特（Brad Pitt）的高調婚事而名聲大震。在一次採訪中，她談到自己曾猶豫要不要繼續出演已經播出將近十年的《老友記》。

“I had a couple issues I was dealing with,” she said. “I wanted it to end when people still loved us and we were on a high. And then I was also feeling like, ‘How much more of Rachel do I have in me?’”

“我那時忙於處理各種問題”，她說，“我希望在人們還愛我們、在我們的鼎盛時期結束，那時我在想我身上到底還有多少瑞秋的影子呢？”

Obviously, Aniston agreed to a final season and we were given one last Ross/Rachel hoorah. Spoiler alert: Ross and Rachel end up together because of course they ended up together. It would have been a crime if they hadn’t!

很明顯，安妮斯頓簽了最後一季合約，帶給我們羅斯和瑞秋這一對戀人最後的感動。劇透預警：羅斯和瑞秋最後在一起了，因爲這是命中註定的啊。如果他們最後沒在一起，那簡直就是耍流氓！