Would he to become even more charming?
Matthew Perry did everything he could to convince Julia Roberts to star in the hour-long episode of ‘Friends’ after the Super Bowl in 1996.
“Matthew asked her to be on the show,” executive producer Kevin Bright told The Hollywood Reporter. She wrote back to him, ‘Write me a paper on quantum physics and I’ll do it. “I understand that Matthew went out and wrote a newspaper and faxed it to her the next day. “
The Hollywood Reporter interviewed the hit show’s producers, writers and staff ahead of the new reboot regarding the epic episode featuring Roberts, Brooke Shields, Chris Isaak, Jean Claude van Damme and revealed that Perry went above and beyond to get the Oscar winner. to get. .
Roberts and Perry had come up with it by fax.
They may have met before the episode, but she was interested in him from afar because he is so charming, ”said writer Alexa Junge. “There was a lot of flirtation about faxing. She gave him questionnaires like, “Why should I go out with you?” And everyone in the writer’s room helped him explain why. He could do pretty well without us, but there was no doubt that we were with Team Matthew trying to make it happen for him. “
Apparently the extra help worked. While shooting, co-writer Jeff Astrof recalled, “She just kept saying, ‘Chandler is so funny!’ And I’m like, ‘I wrote all those lines!’ I don’t know if she fell in love with Matthew right on the spot, but they soon started dating. I felt like Cyrano [de Bergerac]. Like, “Chandler is dating Julia Roberts and I’m going home to my awful girlfriend.” “
Meanwhile, Brooke Shields didn’t have such a pleasant experience, thanks to her then boyfriend (whom she would later marry) Andre Agassi.
Director Michael Lembeck told The Hollywood Reporter that the tennis ace was particularly upset by a scene where Shields licked Matt LeBlanc’s fingers.
“Brooke was with Andre Agassi at the time,” Lembeck recalled. “He appears on the shoot night and sits in the audience with the biggest burger bodyguard. She does the scene where she starts licking Matt’s hand. Then I see him come down, pull Brooke aside and gut her because he’s insanely jealous. She has been reduced to tears! I paused the show for a while and the girls took Brooke aside and loved her, took care of her and got her back on that stage. She did a great job thanks to the support of those three. He was an asshole. “