Ella Risbridger

I don't think Monica... Is Monica a great cook?

She gets terrible reviews.

Well, that's it, isn't it?

And you know, it's easy to confuse the two.

Like, have I based an entire career on simply being the friend who can cook?

Maybe.

It's like, I'm certainly the best cook in my friendship group of 23 year olds who don't know what a kitchen is.

So I guess I'll write a cookbook.

And that's my life.

And I guess that's one reason I feel a great kinship with Monica is the sense of being a host.

And that's why I think the arc from the first Thanksgiving episode to the last is so important and interesting.

Because the first one, Monica's like, dare I host?

Dare I be mother?

Dare I cook all these foods for people?

And then the last Thanksgiving episode is, I think it's very fascinating and very sad about your early 30s, is Monica and Chandler jointly decide they cannot host Thanksgiving anymore.

that they can't do it.

They're too busy.

The work stuff is too stressful and they need to take a break from tradition.

And the other friends go absolutely fucking nuts.

And they're like, no, that's our tradition.