26 years ago, FRIENDS aired and who knew after that life was gonna be this way? It has become our favorite show to binge on. We are so full of emotions when we see the six of them. We wish if we had friends like them. It made us laugh and forget the harsh realities of life. A reunion is on the cards. However, there are a lot of lesser-known facts about FRIENDS which even a die-hard fan wouldn’t know. These lesser-known facts about FRIENDS will blow your mind away.
Here are 10 lesser-known facts about FREINDS
- Ross and Rachel were always going to end together. Even though sometimes it didn’t seem like it. It was always there in the storyline, After all, as Phoebe says he’s her lobster and for Ross, “It’s always been you, Rach.”
2. Courtney Cox was originally supposed to play Rachel. But she rejected it to play Monica. According to her, she is a strong character and a neat freak which related to Courtney Cox more. On the sets, she had the neatest dressing room and used to always clean other actors’ dressing rooms as well. The dressing rooms must be so clean, actually not just clean but Monica clean.
3. FRIENDS was shot before a live crowd comprising of 300 fans beside cliffhangers. It was a test to see whether the jokes and story and so forth worked or not.
4. Matthew Perry battled with liquor addiction all through the shooting of the show. He would regularly show up on the sets with a horrible hangover. In an interview, he said that he had no recollections of shooting three seasons of FRIENDS.
5. Joey’s white dog which he bought for his new house in the series actually belonged to Jennifer Aniston. Her friend had gifted it to her.
6. The character Ross is created by keeping David Schwimmer in mind. Warren Littlefield, the president of NBC from 1990 until 1998, said that the personality of Ross was made explicitly for Schwimmer.
7. Lisa Kudrow’s pregnancy got along into the show, yet Cox’s couldn’t get along. At the point when Kudrow got pregnant, authors made her a surrogate for her brother. Yet, when Monica got pregnant, she was wearing loose garments. Why? Since the show had effectively settled that Chandler and Monica couldn’t have children.
8. Before the show circulated, every one of the cast individuals went on an outing to Las Vegas together. James Burrow “had a feeling about the show”. Burrows advised them, “Once the show comes on the air, you guys will never be able to go anywhere without being hounded.”
9. The show had a different name at first. Co-makers David Crane and Marta Kauffman had at first pitched it as Insomnia Café. There were numerous different titles viable. They focused it down on Friends.
10. NBC did not admire FREINDS at first. It described the pilot as “not very entertaining, clever, or original”. It obviously changed over the course of years.
