Lisa Kudrow, a defining part of the popular culture of the 1990s, opened up about the rather recent resurgence of the nostalgia linked to the decade. The actress rose to prominence for playing Phoebe Buffay. She was one of the six main characters on Friends. She had mixed feelings about the wave of nostalgia. This wave has taken over the world.

Lisa Kudrow weighs in on the new wave of ’90s nostalgia

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of ’90s nostalgia. It is something that is making its way to present-day popular culture and aesthetics. As a part of the defining wave of the 1990s, Lisa Kudrow had some opinions about the wave.

“Oh, well, the first part, that younger people are interested, I mean, it happens every 20 to 30 years anyway, so yeah, it’s time,” the actress said to PEOPLE in an exclusive interview during the premiere of her latest project, The Comeback Season 3, at SXSW in Austin, Texas, on March 15, 2026.

“But it also reminds me of the misinterpretation or the interpretation of history, it’s really, it’s not reliable reporting and I think should remind us unless you were there, you don’t, you don’t really know,” she added about this.

Kudrow is a big part of the 1990s pop culture scenario. She was one of the leading characters of the defining sitcom, Friends. It is widely credited with being one of the most influential shows of its genre. It also made all the other characters, played by Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, and Matt LeBlanc, icons of popular culture.

Nostalgia has been a huge part of Gen Z culture. This is true even though most of them did not actually live through the decade. The resurgence of ’90s culture has been driven by a variety of factors. These include a growing grasp of digital media and the lack of in-person interactions. The nostalgia has bled into a variety of fields like digital media, art, literature, and especially fashion.