Matthew Perry documentary director explains why ‘Friends’ co-stars weren’t interviewed

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premieres on Peacock Tuesday, Feb. 25. “I don’t think it’s too soon for a [documentary]. I think the impact of his death is fresh,” he told The Post.

Viewers will notice that Perry’s “Friends” co-stars David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc aren’t included on screen to give their perspectives, but “understandably, they were reluctant to go on a documentary about Matthew at this point.

Maybe many years down the line … We understand their decision not to appear,” Palumbo said.He added: “Many of us remember getting that news that he had died, and then eventually getting the details [that gave] sort of waves of anger … I feel like people still have him in their hearts and minds.

As the facts began to come out about what happened to him, how he died and what possibly could have been a ring of people that sort of facilitated his death, I was really upset.”Perry died at age 54 at his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home on Oct.