'Friends' star Lisa Kudrow turns 60: What fans didn't see on hit show
30.07.2023 - 12:47
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Lisa Kudrow is celebrating her 60th birthday! The actress is best known for portraying Phoebe Buffay for 10 seasons on the hit NBC sitcom "Friends." She appeared on the show alongside co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox. Although the show went off the air almost 20 years ago, it remains as popular as ever, as it continues to find new audiences through its presence on various streaming networks.
Here are some behind-the-scenes tidbits from one of the most popular shows of the 1990s and early 2000s. Iconic mistake One of the show's most memorable moments came in the season four finale when Ross mistakenly says Rachel's name at the altar instead of his bride Emily's.Turns out, the storyline was inspired by a real-life mistake made while filming a scene earlier in the season.
In the 2019 book, "Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era," Saul Austerlitz interviewed the show's creators, writers, producers and some of the cast.The book contained many behind-the-scenes secrets from the set, one of them being how the writers came up with the idea for the name mix-up. According to Austerlitz, the writers knew they wanted Ross and Emily to go through with the wedding, but they weren't sure how exactly the episode was going to end.
When filming another scene earlier in the season, David Schwimmer, who played Ross on the show, was meant to say "Emily, the taxi's here," but said "Rachel, the taxi's here" instead. Austerlitz wrote it was "at this moment" when one of the producers, Greg Malins, and one of the creators, David Crane, turned to each other and decided that is how the season would end.