{"id":33711,"date":"2024-07-19T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/anna-faris-recalls-working-with-matthew-perry-on-friends-says-he-recommended-her-for-the-role\/19\/07\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T19:30:38","slug":"anna-faris-recalls-working-with-matthew-perry-on-friends-says-he-recommended-her-for-the-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/anna-faris-recalls-working-with-matthew-perry-on-friends-says-he-recommended-her-for-the-role\/19\/07\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Faris Recalls Working With Matthew Perry on &#8216;Friends,&#8217; Says He Recommended Her For the Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/anna-faris\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Faris<\/a><span> has fond memories of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/matthew-perry\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Perry<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 47-year-old actress opens up about working alongside the late actor on the final season of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/friends\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Friends<\/em><\/a><span>.<\/span><em><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>Faris\u00a0appeared in a four-episode arc as Erica, a woman giving birth to the twins Perry&#8217;s Chandler and Courteney Cox&#8217;s Monica would end up adopting, on the series in 2004.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It was an honor and he was just an incredible person,&#8221; Faris tells <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/anna-faris-working-with-matthew-perry-friends-final-season-was-honor-exclusive-8680039\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>People<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0while promoting her latest project, <\/span><em><span>My Spy The Eternal City<\/span><\/em><span>. &#8220;I wish I knew him better. It feels a little audacious for me to speak too much about somebody that I felt like I had brief interactions with, but they were wonderful and I am honored to be a part of the show.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Faris notes that she was of the understanding that Perry had suggested her for the role.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He told me that he&#8217;d seen me in <\/span><em><span>Lost in Translation<\/span><\/em><span> and he thought I was good,&#8221; she shares.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span>Anna Faris appears opposite Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry in &#8216;Friends&#8217; &#8216;The Last One: Part 1&#8217; on May 6, 2004.<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">NBCU Photo Bank<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>&#8220;I worked mostly with Courteney and Matthew, and they were unbelievable to me. They were so kind,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;I mean, it was such an intimidating idea. I mean, to give birth on\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Friends<\/span><\/em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Friends<\/span><\/em><span>? The final season?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While the role was undoubtedly a huge opportunity, Faris jokes that it didn&#8217;t prove financially lucrative in the long run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;They don&#8217;t rerun too much of the last season because I think I get a check for 9 cents every, you know, four months,&#8221; she cracked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span>Anna Faris appears in &#8216;Friends&#8217; &#8216;The One Where Joey Speaks French&#8217; on Feb. 19, 2004.<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">NBCU Photo Bank<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/matthew-perry-friends-actor-dead-at-54-213834\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Perry died<\/a><span>\u00a0at his Los Angeles home on Oct. 28 at the age of 54.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Just last month, <\/span><em><span>Friends <\/span><\/em><span>co-star <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/lisa-kudrow\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Kudrow<\/a><span> admitted that she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/lisa-kudrow-is-rewatching-friends-to-celebrate-matthew-perry-after-his-death-228089\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">has been re-watching the series<\/a><span> in his honor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Honestly, I wasn\u2019t able to watch it because it&#8217;s too embarrassing to watch yourself. But if I make it about Matthew, then that&#8217;s OK,&#8221; Kudrow told \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/lisa-kudrow-rewatching-friends-matthew-perry-1235932956\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a><span>. &#8220;And it&#8217;s just celebrating how hilarious he was \u2014 and that is what I want to remember [about him].&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before that,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/jennifer-aniston-on-how-fans-can-honor-matthew-perrys-legacy-celebrate-him-exclusive-217896\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Aniston talked to ET<\/a><span>\u00a0in January about how fans can honor Perry&#8217;s legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Celebrate him,&#8221; she said, smiling in remembrance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/anna-faris-recalls-working-with-matthew-perry-on-friends-says-he-recommended-her-for-the-role\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Faris has fond memories of Matthew Perry.&nbsp; The 47-year-old actress opens up about working alongside the late actor on the final<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/anna-faris-recalls-working-with-matthew-perry-on-friends-says-he-recommended-her-for-the-role\/19\/07\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}