![]() ![]() “He seemed to have a lot of anger underneath, more of a guy you love to hate. “Thank God! There was something Snidely Whiplash about Craig Bierko,” says Littlefield. No one.” The closest they got was Craig Bierko, who, Kauffman explains, they later found out had been coached by Perry. It’s sarcastic and kind of quippy, but no one could do it. We were so sure that Chandler would be the easiest part to cast. We brought other people in.” Kauffman’s writing partner, David Crane, goes on to explain, “We brought everybody in. “We saw a countless number of actors.… One of the first actors on our list was Matthew Perry to play Chandler, but he was doing a show called LAX 2194, so he wasn’t available. “It was a fascinating casting experience,” says Marta Kauffman on casting the pilot. And I thought that was a real turning point.” Why not? And she also said, ‘Listen, you know, we all need to make this thing great.’ She just set the stage with: ‘I know I’m the one who’s been on TV, but this is all of us.’ She was the one who set that tone and made it a real group that way. So she was giving us permission to give her notes, and we all agreed that that would be great. Actors don’t give each other notes under any circumstances. If I could do anything funnier, I want to do it.’ There’s a code with actors. They say, “Try this,” and “This would be funny.” And she said, ‘You guys, feel free to tell me. She said, ‘Listen, I just did a Seinfeld, and they all help each other. ![]() Kudrow explains that the cast, led by Courteney, decided from the very beginning that they had each other’s backs: “Courteney Cox was the best known of all of us, and she had done a guest star on Seinfeld. “She said that she worked harder on these relationships than she did on her marriage.”Ĭo-creator Marta Kauffman said they knew they had something special the first time the cast all came together: “The first day we went to a run-through, and the six of them were together for the first time, onstage in the coffee shop, I remember the atmosphere being electric. “Lisa Kudrow said it best,” LeBlanc recalls. That’s it.” Littlefield talks to cast members, creators, writers, and producers about what made the decade-long show so special. David, Matthew, Lisa, Courteney, and Jen. “There’s only five people in the world who know exactly what being on Friends was like, other than me,” Matt LeBlanc tells Warren Littlefield, the former president of NBC Entertainment, whose book Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV is excerpted in the May issue of Vanity Fair. ![]()
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