How Writers "Friends" helped Matthew Perry to ask Julia Roberts
In a new interview, the creative team spilled tea at the beginning of their relationship.
The episode ofFriendswhich was broadcast after the 1996 Super Bowl, was the first major event episode of the show, bringing Big-named stars likeJean Claude Van Damme,Brooke Shields, andJulia Robert. And that the cascade casting has resulted not only in huge notes but also a bouzallousActual romance For one of the show stars. In a new oral history to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Time Special, the creators revealed how theFriendsWriters helpedMatthew PerryMark his first date with Julia Roberts. Continue reading to discover the extremely the 90s way, and for more Perk Nostalgia, discoverCole Sprouse says Jennifer Aniston made his role "of friends" "quite difficult".
Julia Roberts played Susie Moss, an explosion of the past of Chandler.
In the episode in two parts, Chandler (Perry) crosses Susie (Roberts), working on the whole ofEpidemic 2: The virus takes Manhattan, a movie in which Ross' (David Schwimmer) An old Marcel company monkey appears. Susie and Chandler find themselves on a date, but he has no idea what his long game is to revenge himself for humiliation when they were children when he shot his skirt during a school room. She convinces him to wear a pair of his underwear at the restaurant and leave him in a public bathroom stall after taking all the rest of his clothes.
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Matthew Perry personally asked him to take the role.
As happening, Perry was the key to securing Roberts as a host star and involved science. InHollywood journalist.Oral history of the episode, co-creatorKevin shinysaid Perry asked theA pretty womanstar to take the role.
"She wrote to him," Write me a paper on the quantum physics and I will do it, "says brilliant. "My understanding is that Matthew is gone and wrote a paper and faxed him the next day."
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And that's when things have been heated.
Whatever the knowledge of physics, Perry Perry must have impressed Roberts. Because not only she agreed to play Susie, but from there, casting negotiation has also turned personal.
"They may have met before the episode, but it was interested in it by far because it's so charming"Friends writerAlexa JungeRecountHollywood journalist. "There was a lot to flirt on the fax. She gave him these questionnaires like:" Why should I go out with you? "And everyone in the Writers' room helped him explain why. He could do good enough without us, but there was no question we were on the Matthew team and trying to get it happening for him. "
Neither Roberts nor Perry gave interviews for oral history, so unfortunately, we may never know what exactly the agreement exactly.
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Roberts and Perry are dated enough softly.
The fax flirt worked. The romance ran his journey in the year, butPerry and Roberts ended up going out. It was the first relationship a-list for theFriendsStar, and one that the two actors have kept private, never speak at the end of the other.
Roberts continued to load the camera operatorDanny ModerAfter meeting him on the wholeMexican. They have been married for nearly 19 years. As for Perry,He committed himself to Literary DirectorMolly HurwitzLast year.
This celebrity couple of the 90s of the 90s may not have been built to last, but hey: they will always have the fax in theFriendsProduction office. And for more revelations on Classic Sitcom, it wasThe worstFriends Star of the guest of all time, according to creators.
