In a recent interview, the actress said that when she started working on “Friends” as Phoebe Buffay, no one cared about her.
Lisa Kudrow became famous for playing the eccentric and lovable singer and songwriter Phoebe Buffay in “Friends”, a hugely successful sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004.
Kudrow was the first cast member to win an Emmy; she took home the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1998, in the show’s fourth season, and she also had the highest number of Emmy nominations throughout the 10 seasons of “Friends”.
But in a recent interview, the actress said that when she began working on the show as Phoebe Buffay, no one cared about her.
“No one cared about me. There were certain parts of my talent agency that simply referred to me as ‘the sixth friend’,” she told the British newspaper The Independent.
According to the 62-year-old actress, some people believed she was lucky just to be cast in the series: “There was no vision for me, nor expectations about what kind of career I could have,” she commented. “It was like, ‘Wow, how lucky she was to get into that show,’” Kudrow explained.
For Kudrow, not having a major professional breakthrough right when “Friends” truly started to become a success, at the beginning of the second season, was actually good for her career.
At that time, the actress took part in several different projects such as the films “Clockwatchers” (1997) and “Analyze This” (1999), where she starred alongside Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal and which, according to her, was a turning point in her career; “agents and managers began approaching me, wanting to cast me in romantic comedies and similar roles,” said Kudrow.
The series “Friends” followed the lives of six young friends living in New York. The cast also included Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and the late Matthew Perry.
Currently, Kudrow stars in the series “The Comeback”, portraying the character Valerie Cherish. The show, in a mockumentary format, follows the life of a former 1990s sitcom star and her attempts to return to fame.
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