10 Questions We’ve Always Asked Ourselves About Friends

In May it will be 15 years since the end of Friends, one of the most famous and unforgettable comedies of all time. Many of us can describe in detail almost every episode of the 10 seasons of the series and many believe that they know everything about the protagonists and the details of the story. But believe me: we can always find out a little more.

O awesome.club tried to find the answers to the most interesting questions that even the biggest fans couldn’t find. Let’s go to them!

Almost always yes! Almost every episode of Friends were recorded in front of a small audience of 200 to 300 people, and each recording lasted five to six hours. Most of the footage was seen live and by acquaintances of the actors and production team, as well as famous fans of the series. When Friends became popular, tickets to see the footage began to be sold and cost more than 5,000 dollars.

In reality, the role of Emma was played by two twin sisters. In 2019 they will be 17 years old! It seems like they were born yesterday…

Courteney confessed that she wanted to use a real turkey in the scene, so Matthew Perry had to put it in too. However, the largest birds available were too small for a human head. So the turkey used was foam.

Many fans of the series and tourists from New York think that the fountain of Cherry Hill, in Central Park, is the same one that we see in the credits at the beginning of Friends🇧🇷 This is not true. The fountain scene was shot very early inside the Warner Bros. studio in Los Angeles and with completely different music in the background. Matt LeBlanc said that the recording lasted several hours, causing the actors’ fingers to become wrinkled due to the water.

Almost the entire series was recorded in Los Angeles. The views of New York were recorded separately and were added later. Some scenes were even shot in a studio with chroma key (green background), something that many people did not expect.

At the time of the beginning of the recording of the series James Michael Tyler, the actor who played Gunther, actually worked as a barista. He already had a background in acting and acted in films and worked as an extra. The offer that was made was 40 dollars and a free lunch for the role of a barista in a cafe. After some time, Marta Kauffman, one of the creators of the series, asked if James had acting experience. At that time, he gained a more prominent role. The actor confessed: “Any sound I made irritated the producers. Afterwards, I became a character with lines and comments. It was very exciting”.

Yes, this is a 1965 American soap opera. Obviously, Joey didn’t act in it. The series was the third longest-running telenovela in the United States and fourth in number of episodes worldwide. Most likely it was included in Friends because in it acted John Aniston, father of Jennifer Aniston, and John Bennett Perry, father of Matthew Perry.

This man hid for 20 years, and not even fans of the series knew who he was. For a long time, the site IMDb, specialized in cinema, stated that the role was played by Mike Hagerty, known as Mr. treeger, in Friends🇧🇷 However, in 2016 it was revealed that the role was played by actor Jon Haugen.

Perhaps the most brilliant career of all after the series was that of Jennifer Aniston, who appeared in films such as almighty and cake, a film that earned him a Golden Globe nomination. And all the actors keep working: Matt LeBlanc starred in a spin off from the series itself Friends, another series called Joeyfor example.

David Schwimmer voiced the giraffe Melman in the animation Madagascar and later participated in the miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story🇧🇷 He also directed some episodes of Friends it’s from Joey🇧🇷 Actress Lisa Kudrow also makes many films and many series, including The Comebackwhere she was a producer and writer.

Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston became great friends during the series. Jennifer is godmother to Courteney’s son and they are often seen together at social events. Courteney also maintained a friendship with Lisa Kudrow.

Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer almost never appear together, but they never lost touch, even 15 years after the series finale.

They didn’t make it! It is possible to find the bloopers on the Internet to see that the actors also had a lot of fun during the recording. Almost all of these scenes were ‘destroyed’ by Matthew Perry, who could never stop laughing on the set of the recordings and always made a lot of jokes with his colleagues.

What other questions do you have about the Friends series? If you had to pick one episode from the series, which one would it be? Tell us in the comments!