Brooke Shields remembers an “inside joke” from the Friends set that “you would be cancelled” for today.
THE Pretty baby The 59-year-old actress memorably appeared in Season 2 of the NBC sitcom, playing Erika, an obsessed Joey Tribbiani fan who believed that Joey – played by Matt LeBlanc – it was really his The days of our lives character, Dr. Drake Ramoray.
On set, Shields said she was eager to curry favor with the show’s famous cast — LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and the delay Matthew Perry – and copied a risky joke that Perry often made. However, she admits that he probably wouldn’t fly today.
“You go to such a well-oiled and successful show… I was such a fan. All I wanted was for them to like me,” the actress explained Monday, January 13 on The view. “I just wanted to be funny. But I wasn’t in the group. They were very tight. They had all these inside jokes.
“I looked and they had this inside joke that they did a lot of it, and Matthew Perry did it,” Shields continued. “And I thought, ‘If I can make him laugh, it’s going to be so good.'”
Admitting that “you couldn’t do it now, you’d get cancelled”, Shields explained that Perry would slide on the floor “in front of a girl and pretend to look at her skirt”.
“Again, you would be canceled today,” she reiterated.
To impress the cast, Shields turned the tables on Perry.
“I ran so fast from one end of the stage to the other, threw myself on the floor and pretended to look at his pant leg,” she recalls. “Everyone was silent. I was on the floor and I was like, “I just suck!” I look like a crazy person! » I lay on the floor for what seemed like an hour, but it was probably a second, and all of a sudden he started laughing, and they all started laughing.
Warner Bros. Television/Getty Images The late Matthew Perry will always be remembered by the cast of Friends. “We are all completely devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just castmates. We are a family,” the stars of the series, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer, told Us Weekly (…)
Shields also recalled the anecdote in his new memoir, Brooke Shields is not allowed to agepublished Tuesday January 14.
“That afternoon they invited me to have lunch with them and go to the gym on the field,” Shields wrote, according to an excerpt published by Real Simple. “I had made it in Hollywood! And in the episode itself, my willingness to embrace the crazy and go all out for laughs also made an impression. The day after the show aired, I got a call asking me to star in my own sitcom, Suddenly, Susan.”
Perry died at his home in Los Angeles in October 2023 at the age of 54. The official cause of his death was later determined to be “the acute effects of ketamine,” which is used to treat opioid use.
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