Lisa Kudrow divulges staggering amount ‘Friends’ cast still makes on residuals — two decades after show ended

Lisa Kudrow has revealed that she and her chap “Friends” co-stars still earn a whopping $20 cardinal successful residuals each year, much than 2 decades aft nan deed sitcom came to an end.

The Emmy-winning character divulged nan staggering magnitude she and nan formed still gain from “Friends” while reflecting connected nan iconic show in an question and reply published by The Times of London past Thursday.

Kudrow, who played nan eccentric and kind-hearted Phoebe Buffay for each 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004, told nan outlet that she rewatched nan long-running NBC sitcom pursuing co-star Matthew Perry’s tragic passing successful 2023 astatine 54.

“After Matthew died, I watched nan show again,” nan 62-year-old shared. “Before, I only saw what I did incorrect aliases could person done better. But for nan first time, I genuinely appreciated conscionable really awesome it was.”

She continued, “Because location was a brilliant astatine work. And immoderate any of america do successful nan future, we will ne'er acquisition thing for illustration that again.”

While Kudrow “felt [she] did OK” arsenic Phoebe, she praised Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox’s “amazing” portrayals of Rachel Green and Monica Geller.

She besides gushed astir David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc’s hilarious activity arsenic Ross Geller and Joey Tribbiani, respectively — earlier acknowledging that Perry “was conscionable beyond [them] all” arsenic nan witty and often sarcastic Chandler Bing.

While Kudrow recognized that “Friends” depicted “a benignant of innocence that possibly a younger procreation has ne'er gotten to experience,” she revealed that “there was decidedly mean worldly going connected down nan scenes” of nan show.

Although nan six co-stars were each friends successful existent life, and famously went from earning $22,500 per section during Season 1 to $1 cardinal per section during Seasons 9 and 10, they still butted heads pinch nan show’s writers.

“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–king read? She’s not moreover trying. She f–ked up my line,'” Kudrow explained.

“And we cognize that backmost successful nan room, nan guys would beryllium up precocious discussing their intersexual fantasies astir Jennifer and Courteney,” she added. “It was intense.”

But nan alleged “sexual fantasies about” Aniston and Cox didn’t spell unnoticed, because erstwhile “Friends” adjunct Amaani Lyle revenge a intersexual harassment suit against Warner Bros. Television complete nan purported remarks successful 2004.

Lyle yet mislaid nan case, however.

“Oh, it 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,” Kudrow said.

“So my cognition was, ‘Say what you for illustration astir maine down my backmost because past it doesn’t matter,'” she added.

Page Six has reached retired to reps for Aniston, Cox and co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane for comment.

Meanwhile, Kudrow said she “will ne'er opportunity thing bad about ‘Friends'” because nan sitcom is “still unthinkable work” 22 years aft ending.

“There are plentifulness of shows pinch big-name comedians from that time, and they are not funny, but ‘Friends’ is,” she concluded.