Five Celebrity Friendship Groups We’d Really Like To Hang Out With
They seem fun.
I’m a fairly delusional person. Between the ages of 13 and 15, I was 100% certain that I would marry Spanish tennis player (and one-time winner of the French Open) Juan Carlos Ferrero. In the summer of 2002, I saved up all the money I’d earned from working weekends in the shoe departments of Kmart and convinced my mum to fly to Melbourne with me to see him play in the Australian Open. Three days before the opening round, he pulled out of the tournament due to a wrist injury, destroying my (very well formed) dream of him falling for me and begging me to accompany him on the ATP World Tour.
Twelve years later and I’m pretty well over him. However, the delusion remains, albeit in a new form — I’m now certain that there is a celebrity friendship group waiting for me to join.
Finding out which famous people are friends with other famous people is somewhat a hobby of mine, in as much as you can call looking at the internet a hobby. Nothing beats the rush of finding out that Taylor Swift is actually BFFs with Emma Stone or that Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston are buddies IRL. Over many hours spent reading E! Online and Huffington Post, I’ve become quite the expert on who hangs with who and and have managed to whittle down a wish list of famous friendship groups many of us would probably like to join.
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1. Cinema royalty, aka The Coppola Clan
Who: Sofia Coppola, her husband (and Phoenix front man) Thomas Mars, her brother Roman and his mate Wes Anderson, and Coppola cousins Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage
The offspring of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola and their friends/cousins/French indie–rocker husbands are an intimidatingly talented bunch. They ooze European chic from their ACNE basic tees down to their Celine sandals. This is the group that brought you popular arthouse hits such as Lost in Translation, Rushmore, Moonrise Kingdom and Con Air. Considering Coppola Sr. now devotes his time to refurbishing luxury Italian hotels, I’m sure they spend their summers hanging out on the Amalfi Coast, eating prawn linguine and drinking some kind of Italian wine that I’ve never heard of.
These are perfectly dressed people with perfect taste in everything (well, except when Nick Cage did this) and nine Oscar nominations between them. These are not the kind of friends you send snap chats of yourself drunkenly re-enacting Robyn’s ‘Call Your Girlfriend‘ film clip in your living room. A bit too posh for me. NEXT!
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2. Up-and-coming funny people
Who: Michael Cera, Clark Duke, Aubrey Plaza, Alia Shawkat, Juno Temple and Kieran Culkin
God I love it when cool, young, famous people hang out. Of course these guys are friends. And you know that any group that contains both Maeby from Arrested Development and April from Parks and Recreation has the right amount of deadpan apathy for a cracking night out. They would show you hilarious YouTube videos that you’ve never seen. In fact, they probably star in them.
The problem with this gang is that while I appreciate each of them all in their own right, the sarcasm may be overwhelming when combined. Either that, or there would be so many in-jokes that I’d probably end up with hurt feelings/crying alone in a bathroom.
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3. Young intellects
Who: Miranda July, Lena Dunham, Sheila Heti, Kirsten Dunst, the sisters from fashion label Rodarte
I already subscribe to writer/director/artist/actress/Queen of Wackiness Miranda July’s ‘We Think Alone‘ project (where she forwards you emails from her intellectual pals), so I kinda feel like I’m already in with this crowd. Her clique is an eclectic bunch of artists, writers, fashion designers and actors who like to talk about themselves. A lot. Yet somehow it comes off as earnest and insightful rather than shallow and annoying, like when my friends do it. They would be very good to share a bottle of red and talk about your feelings with. These feelings would then probably end up in Sheila Heti’s next book, but as long as we all steered clear of any discussions about modern art, these guys have potential.
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4. Pitchfork Darlings
Who: Solange, Grizzly Bear, Dev Hynes, Dirty Projectors
I am assuming this lot are friends based mostly on this super fun GQ shoot (There are streamers! And several of the men are wearing felt hats! Fun!). Also, the fact that Dev Hynes produced Solange’s latest EP, which was released by Chris Taylor from Grizzly Bear’s record label, Terrible Records, and also happens to be the best thing she’s done since her cover of Dirty Projectors’ experimental pop hit, ‘Stillness Is The Move‘.
Just take a moment to imagine an intimate gathering on a sun-drenched Brooklyn rooftop with an impromptu jam by any of the above. You can’t, can you? Because it’s TOO AMAZING for the human mind to comprehend. Let’s not forget that being friends with Solange also brings you one step closer to this…
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5. The Power Couple
Who: John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. Their circle includes Matt Damon, George Clooney and Colin Firth. Stanley Tucci married Emily Blunt’s sister! AND Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux and Jimmy Kimmel have all gone on vaycay with them.
I think I would make an excellent third wheel to the adorable couple that is, uh, Blusinski? Krunt? They are like the gateway drug of Hollywood; make friends with these two and it opens up a heady world of celebrity comrades.
John and Em are friends with other famous people with whom they have common interests (namely being famous), like when they randomly popped up in that documentary on The National. While I am not famous, I also like The National and have also been known to lip synch to Katy Perry, so at least we’ll have something to talk about.
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Maddy Newman runs a fashion magazine for a major e-commerce company. Before that, she produced a talk-back radio program for over-65s. Consequently, she knows a lot about the internet, shoes and Andre Rieu.