Lisa Kudrow has made a sad admission about Friends, and it has left fans of the show absolutely gutted.
Kudrow is doing the rounds to promote her newest comedy, No Good Deed, which debuted on Netflix today and has received across the board positive reviews.
Where Kudrow is undeniably best known from, however, remains Friends, in which she played Phoebe Buffay in 235 episodes over the course of a decade.
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She recently spoke out about the relationship the six ‘friends’ shared behind the camera - consisting of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry - and it isn’t what people expected.
In one interview with Dax Shepard, she said that the six of them ‘worked hard at being friends’ and admitted that being a six-way-relationship ‘took some work’.
She said: “If someone said something or did something, it didn’t get too big because it was, ‘Can I talk to you?’”
She also stated that she had recently restarted watching Friends after the tragic death of co-star Matthew Perry in October 2023.
One admission she made in another interview, however, saddened fans to hear.
She said in an interview with Jesse Tyler Ferguson on his Dinner’s On Me podcast: "We’d only had dinner, the six of us, once before since the show ended."
She clarified that this time was after the ten year anniversary of the finale, saying: "Just us at someone’s house and [we] had dinner, and like, didn’t miss a beat."
Several fans were saddened by the admission, and realisation that they were in fact colleagues and not necessarily as inseparable friends as they came across as in the show.
One commented: "Sad. Real friends wouldn't do that. Not even a stop at a Coffee Cafe??"
Another replied to that to say: "It’s pretty normal. It happens with my friends and we all live in the same city, but we are busy working and having our own lives. The Friends cast worked all over the USA and even in Europe. So, it’s pretty normal if they didn't meet up."
Kudrow went on to say that the death of Perry was a ‘jolt’ for the whole main cast.
She said: “It shook us up, I have to say. He [Perry] said it won't be a surprise, but it will be a shock, and that was exactly right.
"So smart, that is true - it wasn't a surprise, but it was a shock. It was a big jolt.
"Personally, I think he died happy. I think in the days around his passing, I think he was happy and excited about what's happening next."
Regarding her rewatching the show in the wake of Perry’s death, she told The Hollywood Reporter: “Honestly, I wasn't able to watch it because it's too embarrassing to watch yourself.
“But if I make it about Matthew, then that's OK. And it's just celebrating how hilarious he was — and that is what I want to remember [about him].”
Topics: Friends, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Netflix, TV, TV and Film
Michael Slavin