Friends Writer SLAMS Cast For Past Behavior: 'Reminded Me Of The Preppy Rich Kids'
25.08.2023 - 02:55
/ perezhilton.com
According to a former writer, the cast of Friends didn’t always have their cheerful demeanor while filming the show!
Patty Lin, who wrote for the iconic ’90s sitcom during season 7 from 2000 to 2001, is spilling ALL THE TEA about what life was like on set. Amid the SAG-AFTRA strike that’s been going on for some time now, the 43-year-old former writer shared an excerpt from her upcoming book End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood with Time on Wednesday — and she’s coming for all the shows we know and love!
In the excerpt, she said:
Damn!
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Later in her book, she recalls how excited she was to get an offer to work on Friends, which was the most popular sitcom in the country at the time. Working alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer seemed like a dream at the time — but soon the dream turned into a nightmare:
Patty went on to claim the cast members would even mess up the jokes on purpose to get the ones they didn’t like rewritten:
Whoa!
The entertainment industry figure said the actors would often “vociferously” give their opinions to the writers and felt protective over the characters they played:
She said these meetings were only helpful “sometimes”, but often just sent the writers of the show back to square one multiple times. And something that made her even more uncomfortable on set was the alleged cliquey nature of the cast:
Yeesh…
And that’s not even to mention her claims of sexual harassment and racial injustice that would not fly today. She alleges the crew would speak about sexual encounters during their downtime:
All in all, Patty called the 23 episodes the produced that season