When the figurative rain began to pour, “Friends” actor Matt LeBlanc was there for his co-star Lisa Kudrow, similar to the present’s theme track promised.
Again within the ’90s, the tv present launched the world to Kudrow’s eccentric character, Phoebe Buffay. She shortly grew to become a fan favourite — smelly cats and all — however entering into Phoebe’s footwear wasn’t precisely a stroll in Central Park.
Throughout a June 6 interview for Selection’s Actors on Actors sequence with actor Parker Posey, Kudrow revealed that portraying Phoebe was “so far from” who she was as an individual, and admitted that the position took “work” to painting.
“I needed to justify everything she was saying in my head so that it felt like she meant it and it was real to her,” Kudrow stated.
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“I remember Season 2 or 3, I went, ‘Oh my God, I’m not doing the work,’” Kudrow recalled.
That’s when LeBlanc chimed in with some sage phrases of knowledge: “What’s the matter with you? You’re her. You don’t have to.”
From that second, Kudrow stated, the work grew to become “fun.”
Kudrow has opened up about what it was wish to movie the hit sequence earlier than. Final 12 months, she clarified a remark made by co-star Jennifer Aniston, who stated that Kudrow “hated when the audience laughed” throughout tapings.
“No, that’s not exactly ― no, no,” Kudrow instructed ETOnline. “It irritated me if they would laugh for too long. God bless them. They were so excited to be there.”
