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Although they are played a group of close friends on the showthe cast Friends he didn’t hit straight away Lisa Kudrow.
The 61-year-old actor spoke about the popularity of comedy sitcom thirty years after it was first released in an interview with Dax Shephard on The armchair expert podcast.
The show, created by Martha Kauffmanfirst aired in 1994 and ran for ten seasons and 236 episodes until the 2004 finale.
Friends has become a cultural phenomenon, especially among the millennial generation, which followed the lives of its stars just as close in real life as on TV. It starred David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry and Kudrow.
But Kudrow, who played the quirky and eccentric Phoebe Buffay, said the off-screen friendship that followed came with a lot of effort.
She said the team “worked hard to be friends,” adding “If someone said or did something, it didn’t become too big because it was, ‘Can I talk to you?’
Although, true to her awkward on-screen nature, Kudrow said she’s “not usually the one” to start a conversation because she “never knew it was allowed” at the time.
“I had to learn to be like, ‘Can I talk to you about something?'” she explained.
Kudrow also touched on it the death of Matthew Perry last year. The actor, who played sarcastic accountant Chandler Bing on the show, died of “acute effects of ketamine” at 54.
“This is going to sound weird,” Kudrow said of the death. “I’m more comforted that he was happy the day he died. He must die happy. And it was a gift to me.”
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Although Shephard addressed Perry’s struggles with addiction, Kudrow said, “I loved the Matthew I first met and the Matthew I met at the end, because God loves him, this is you, and I love you. I understand, and so did he.”
Since his death, authorities have been working towards an understanding how Perry obtained the drug, which is legal and commonly used as an anesthetic but can be abused when used recreationally. Five people, including two doctors, were charged over his death earlier this year.