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22.10.2022 - 12:11 / deadline.com
Matthew Perry has revealed how he created the unique speech patterns that made his character Chandler Bing so distinctive from the moment he appeared in Friends.
Perry has written a memoir about his rollercoaster ride with global sitcom success, addiction and rehab – extracts of which have already brought headlines, including his crush on co-star Jennifer Aniston and near-death experience with opioids.
Switching to his craft in an extract published in today’s Times, Perry explains how, right from his audition, he was inspired to give Chandler a speech pattern that stood out, with its emphasis on unusual words and syllables.
He writes:
“I read the words in an unexpected fashion, hitting emphases that no one else had hit. I was back in Ottawa with my childhood friends the Murrays; I got laughs where no one else had.”
Becoming the final member of the lead cast of six, Perry took this same style of delivery into production:
“I was talking in a way that no one had talked in sitcoms before, hitting odd emphases, picking a word in a sentence you might not imagine was the beat.
“I didn’t know it yet, but my way of speaking would filter into the culture across the next few decades. For now, though, I was just trying to find interesting ways into lines that were already funny, but that I thought I could truly make dance.
“(I was once told that the writers would underline the word not usually emphasised in a sentence just to see what I would do with it.)”
Sure enough, despite the show finishing after ten seasons in 2004, Chandler’s expressions, including the memorable “Could I BE…?” remain in common parlance today, no doubt helped by the never-ending re-runs of the record-breaking sitcom, which a whole new generation of
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