Lisa Kudrow Appeared On The Late Show Ahead Of The Much-Awaited Friends Reunion On HBO Max
With the much-awaited reunion special of the show premiering on HBO Max, the 57-year-old actress appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where she revealed that she recently took a BuzzFeed quiz to see which Friends character she related to most.
She Admitted That In Fact Did Relate More To Rachel Greene When She Initially Auditioned For The Series Which Began Airing In 1994
She said, “I thought I was answering questions that would bring me to Phoebe, you know? Favorite color? ‘Yellow!’, and it just said ‘Rachel.’ “
She added that when auditioned for the series she actually was more drawn to Rachel’s character, saying, “It’s funny because when I first read the script, and I was going to be auditioning for Phoebe, I saw Rachel and I just went, ‘Oh, that’s like a Long Island JAP — that could be hilarious. I can identify with that more.’ But they said, ‘No, no. Phoebe.'”
The Emmy-Winning Actress And Her Friends Co-Stars Recently Spoke On The “Emotional” Experience Of Filming The Reunion As Well As The Impact Of The Much-Loved Sitcom
Kudrow also appeared with her co-stars in this week’s PEOPLE exclusive looking back on the iconic sitcom’s 10-season run and her recent meet-up with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer, opening up about feeling “emotional” while filming the reunion 17 years after the end of the show.
Reflecting on the show and its impact during the exclusive interview, Perry said “It was a character-driven funny, not timely funny. They didn’t make timely jokes. They didn’t make jokes about O.J. Simpson. They made character-driven jokes about people — and people are going to come back time and time again and watch that.”
On Wednesday week ahead of its release, the streaming service has dropped the much-anticipated official trailer and key art for the unscripted special airing on May 27th.