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Lisa Kudrow exposed nan “mean” and “brutal” behaviour by nan antheral writers connected “Friends.”
“There was decidedly mean worldly going connected down nan scenes,” Kudrow shared successful an question and reply pinch The Times of London published past Thursday.
She continued, “Don’t hide we were signaling successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage of 400, and if you messed up 1 of these writers’ lines aliases it didn’t get nan cleanable response, they could beryllium like, ‘Can’t nan bitch f—ing read? She’s not moreover trying. She f—ed up my line.’”
Kudrow claimed that successful nan writers’ room, which was filled pinch 12-15 unit members who were mostly men, “the guys would beryllium up precocious discussing their intersexual fantasies” astir her co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox.
“It was intense,” she added.
The Emmy Award victor reiterated that nan move betwixt nan NBC sitcom’s writers and stars “could beryllium brutal.”
“But these guys — and it was mostly men successful location — were sitting up until 3 a.m. trying to constitute nan show truthful my cognition was, ‘Say what you for illustration astir maine down my backmost because past it doesn’t matter,'” Kudrow recalled.
Page Six has reached retired to reps for Aniston, Cox and co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane.
Kudrow played Phoebe Buffay connected “Friends” from 1994 to 2004, starring alongside Aniston, Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and nan precocious Matthew Perry.
The behaviour of nan “Friends” penning unit antecedently came into mobility successful 2004 erstwhile erstwhile writers’ adjunct Amaani Lyle revenge a suit against Warner Bros. Television, accusing nan writers of intersexual and group harassment.
The lawsuit yet made it to nan California Supreme Court, which ruled against Lyle and said that nan crude and vulgar behaviour was a basal portion of nan activity environment, per Variety.
Elsewhere successful her question and reply pinch The Times, Kudrow, who started rewatching “Friends” aft Perry’s death successful October 2023, called her precocious co-star a “genius.”
“Whatever immoderate of america do successful nan future, we will ne'er acquisition thing for illustration that again,” she shared.
The “Comeback” character besides declared that she’ll “never opportunity thing bad about ‘Friends’ because it’s still unthinkable work.”
Kudrow added, “There are plentifulness of shows pinch big-name comedians from that clip and they are not funny, but ‘Friends’ is.”
