Lisa Kudrow bluntly acknowledged she’s not the most well-liked character on “Friends.”
The actress spoke out about her iconic character, Phoebe Buffay, within the hit sitcom, which additionally starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry.
“Nobody cared about me,” she mentioned in an interview with the Independent printed Saturday. “There were certain parts of [my talent agency] that just referred to me as ‘the sixth Friend.’”
Even although Kudrow received an Emmy in 1998 in the very best supporting actress in a comedy sequence class for her efficiency because the lovably goofy Phoebe, she mentioned many didn’t imagine she would have longevity in Hollywood.
“There was no vision for me, and no expectations about the kind of career I could have,” she recalled. “There was just, like, ‘boy is she lucky she got on that show.’”
“Friends” aired for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004. She additionally mirrored on taking part in the beloved character in a latest Q&A with Lily Tomlin for Interview magazine — noting how completely different she is from Phoebe in actual life.
“At first, Phoebe was very, very far from me,” she shared. “It took a lot of work to justify the things she would say and do. Not in an irritating way — it was fun.”
“Over the course of 10 years, a little bit of her came into me,” she continued, “I lightened up a little more and read some books on spirituality and things, just to try to understand her.”
Kudrow insisted Phoebe was not a “ditzy” character, which some folks perceived her as.
“At the time, it was like, “She’s such a ditz. How is it that you only play ditzes?” And I assumed, Is she a ditz? To me, she wasn’t.” she mentioned.
“In 1994, it was like, “I love her. She’s such a ditz.” And it’s like, yeah, okay, that was what a ditz was to us. Someone who wasn’t towing the road.”
Kudrow, 62, has been selling the third and remaining season of “The Comeback,” and she lately obtained actual about getting old in Hollywood.
The actress instructed the Hollywood Reporter she didn’t strive Botox till she was 60, however she was “probably done with it.”
“I am scared of having to see myself looking like my grandmother one day, but I’m excited to play older roles,” she defined.
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