‘Friends’ creators reveal final Matthew Perry conversation 2 weeks before his death
01.11.2023 - 13:39
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Matthew Perry was in a good place before his death — according to “Friends” creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane.Kauffman and Crane spoke with the late actor just two weeks before he was found underwater in his hot tub at his California home on Saturday. He was 54.“It was great,” Kauffman told the Today show’s Hoda Kotb in a pre-taped interview, which aired on Wednesday. “He was happy and chipper.
He didn’t seem weighed down by anything.”“He was in a really good place, which is why this seems so unfair,” she continued.”“I was just in utter shock,” she said of when he heard he died. “My first impulse was to text him, honestly. And then deep sadness.
It’s hard to grasp. You know, one minute he’s here and happy, and then poof. And doing good in the world.
Really doing good in the world.”Kaufman, who co-created the beloved NBC sitcom with David Crane. The pair and executive producer Kevin Bright broke their silence on the tragedy on Sunday.“We are shocked and deeply, deeply saddened by our beloved friend Matthew’s passing,” they said in a joint statement to People. “It still seems impossible.
All we can say is that we feel blessed to have had him as part of our lives. He was a brilliant talent.”Kauffman, Crane and Bright said they knew that Perry was right for the role of Chandler when they first met him.“It’s a cliche to say that an actor makes a role their own, but in Matthew’s case, there are no truer words,” they said. “From the day we first heard him embody the role of Chandler Bing, there was no one else for us.”“We will always cherish the joy, the light, the blinding intelligence he brought to every moment — not just to his work, but in life as well.