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Twenty-five years ago, on January 28, 1996, theFriends Episode "One after Superbowl" [sic] broadcast and became the most observed series of all time. Now, the creators of the series and the director of episodes and writers repeat the milestone withHollywood journalist(THR), the way he came to be at the casting of hisGuest stars big-named. And anFriends Guest-star In the episode, it looks like it was probably the worst in the history of the show.

The episode features of a special timeJulia Robert,Brooke Shields,Chris Isaak,Jean-Claude Van Dam,Fred Willard, andDan Castellaneta as special guests. But it was the Star of the Van Damme action, which really caused problems on the tray, to show up the way he kissed two of the show stars.

Read it to find out what these behind the show had to say about Van Damme and its disastrous invited appearance. And for more thanFriends,Cole Sprouse says Jennifer Aniston makes hisFriendsRole "quite difficult".

The hour slot after the Super Bowl is strongly coveted since the game pulls in so many viewers. So, the creators ofFriends-Marta Kauffman,David crane, andKevin shiny-HAD to provide something outside of their usual 30-minute episode.

"We told them he had to be an hour because we were not going to turn extra time to affiliates"Warren Littlefield, who was the president of NBC Entertainment at the time, saidTHR. "And we thought that people watched the television for eight hours at this point, so it should not be the most subtle episode. They had to go and have fun."

Creators and writers have proposed multiple scenes that stretched an hour, deciding to present Ross' return (David Schwimmer) Monkey, Marcel and launch several stars invited remarkable.

In theTHR History, the crew rent all the stars of guests except one. DirectorMichael Lembeck Said, "Julia Roberts was a joy" and called Isaak a "guy swell", even if his actor was "like working with a salmon" at first. (He is above all a singer, not an actor, after all.) Kauffman has delighted that "Brooke Shields hit him out of the park" and referring to Castellaneta and Willard, said, "Their scenes are my two moments preferred. "

But Van Damme was another story.

Van Damme was launched to play a comic version of himself, because the writers wanted Monica (COX COX) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) Encourages with each other on who has arrived so far a movie star.

"Jean-Claude Van Damme may have fallen into the category of who is more difficult to work with, he or the monkey?" said Petitfield. Brilliant recalled that the actor arrived after three or four hours late, and when he tried to talk to him, theBlood sport Exclaimed: "No! First, I memorize lines. Then you give me feeling."

One of the writers of the episode,Mike Sikowitz, said Van Damme had someone to make a cereal race for him. "He asked through his manager or another person who came to the set with him for puffs of cocoa," said Sikowitz. "I believe that one P.A failed and obtained them."

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Apparently, Aniston and Cox told their director to ask Van Damme not to use the language during their embrace scenes.

"Having completely blown our day, we had to blur," says LembeckTHR. "Then he is not prepared and arrogant! But it's the story I want to share: the shooting of history and Jennifer. In the first place, she goes to me and says' Lem, Lem, Lem, Lem , you have a favor and ask me to not put his tongue in my mouth when he kisses me? "" Lembeck says he told Van Damme that he was doing very well, but as it was a tight blow to avoid kissing the tongue.

"Then we draw a scene later with Courteney," continued Lembeck. "Here comes Courteney walking towards me and saying," Lem, can you tell him not to put his tongue in my mouth? "I could not believe it! I had to tell him again, but a little firmer."

Light added: "I talked about it from Jennifer, and I remember telling him that maybe he does not understand it's not the cinema? But we asked him many times."

THR Note that Van Damme representatives did not respond to requests for comments.

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A couple of Friends The writers commented on the Van Damme scenario as a whole, and it seems that it was divisive. "He is not a comedy society, and I think it showed," said the writer Michael Borokow . "On the other hand, we do not need him to be funny. We needed a great Hollywood star that girls fight and he did that very well."

Writer Alexa Junge Is still not a fan of this particular plot. "I did not like this story," she told the publication. "I was upset that my Monica and my Rachel were selling romantically."

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