Showbiz I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . Lisa Kudrow has addressed a comment Jennifer Aniston made about the Phoebe Buffay actor’s time on Friends.
Earlier this year, Aniston, in a conversation with Abbott Elementary star Quinta Brunson, discussed her career, including her role as Rachel Green on the American sitcom. Appearing on the Variety’s Actors on Actors interview series, the Bruce Almighty star mentioned that Kudrow “hated when the audience laughed” during live tapings. Kudrow has now addressed her co-star’s comment and told Entertainment Tonight: "No, that's not exactly.
.. no, no.
It irritated me if they would laugh for too long." Last month, the actress revealed that she had started rewatching old episodes of Friends to remember her late co-star Matthew Perry. For years after the hit sitcom, US actress Kudrow said she could not watch herself playing Phoebe, a role which shot her to global stardom opposite her castmates Courteney Cox , David Schwimmer , Matt LeBlanc , Jennifer Aniston and Perry.
Last October, Perry was found unresponsive in the pool at his residence and was pronounced dead at the age of 54. His death was ruled an accident from the acute effects of ketamine, but the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed it was working on an “open investigation” into the circumstances of his death. On rewatching Friends, Kudrow told The Hollywood Reporter : “Honestly, I wasn’t.
