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David Schwimmer recounted the “really scary” moment as recording an episode Friends when his colleague Matt LeBlanc was injured and rushed to the hospital.
The Friends star rose to fame in the much-loved nineties sitcom beside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney CoxLisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and LeBlanc.
Speaking in a new interview, Schwimmer recalled that during the live taping of the show, LeBlanc’s character Joey was supposed to fake a fall, but instead the actor accidentally dislocated his shoulder.
“During the recording of the live show, [Matt LeBlanc] he’s supposed to do some kind of fake fall, and he actually dislocated his shoulder,” Schwimmer said Entertainment Tonight.
“He won, he stood up and I saw his shoulder stretched out. He looked like he was going to pass out.”
Schwimmer recalled that he “immediately turned to the camera like, ‘Cut, cut, cut.’
“That was really scary. You could see how badly he was hurt. And we had to stop filming that night, obviously, and he went to the hospital,” the actor said. “That was terrifying.”
The actor stars in the upcoming second season of Disney+ and Hulu’s horror anthology revival Goosebumpswhich will mark Schwimmer’s first foray into a horror comedy.
The Madagascar the actor recently revealed the brutal decision he had to make during his early career when he he turned down roles in films by Barry Sonnenfeld and Steven Spielberg The men in blackbecause he had already signed on to direct the film for Miramax.
The men in black he would end up playing Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in the role originally offered to Schwimmer.
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Schwimmer admitted that if he had taken the role, he would have become a “movie star”.
“My summer window from Friends he was four months,” Schwimmer said. “I had a four-month break and The men in black I should have shot exactly when I directed this film with my company. And of course, it was an amazing opportunity… However, my theater company and that relationship with all those people would probably end,” the actor said.
His directorial debut Since you were gone was demoted from theatrical release to premiere on ABC in 1998. Meanwhile, The men in black turned Smith into one of the world’s biggest stars.
“You have to follow your intuition. You have to follow your heart,” Schwimmer mused.
“I’m really aware, whatever 20 years later, maybe more, [Men in Black] would make me a movie star. If you look at the success of that film and that franchise, my career would have taken a very different path.”