Lisa Kudrow says male ‘Mates’ writers had ‘sexual fantasies’ about co-stars
Lisa Kudrow uncovered the “imply” and “brutal” conduct by the male writers on “Mates.”
“There was undoubtedly imply stuff happening behind the scenes,” Kudrow shared in an interview with The Instances of London printed final Thursday.
She continued, “Don’t overlook we had been recording in entrance of a stay viewers of 400, and if you happen to tousled considered one of these writers’ strains or it didn’t get the proper response, they may very well be like, ‘Can’t the bitch f—ing learn? She’s not even making an attempt. She f—ed up my line.’”
Kudrow claimed that within the writers’ room, which was crammed with 12-15 workers members who had been largely males, “the blokes could be up late discussing their sexual fantasies” about her co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox.
“It was intense,” she added.
The Emmy Award winner reiterated that the dynamic between the NBC sitcom’s writers and stars “may very well be brutal.”
“However these guys — and it was largely males in there — had been sitting up till 3 a.m. making an attempt to put in writing the present so my perspective was, ‘Say what you want about me behind my again as a result of then it doesn’t matter,’” Kudrow recalled.
Web page Six has reached out to reps for Aniston, Cox and co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane.
Kudrow performed Phoebe Buffay on “Mates” from 1994 to 2004, starring alongside Aniston, Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and the late Matthew Perry.
The conduct of the “Mates” writing workers beforehand got here into query in 2004 when former writers’ assistant Amaani Lyle filed a lawsuit towards Warner Bros. Tv, accusing the writers of sexual and racial harassment.
The case ultimately made it to the California Supreme Courtroom, which dominated towards Lyle and stated that the crude and vulgar conduct was a obligatory a part of the work atmosphere, per Selection.
Elsewhere in her interview with The Instances, Kudrow, who began rewatching “Mates” after Perry’s dying in October 2023, known as her late co-star a “genius.”
“No matter any of us do sooner or later, we’ll by no means expertise one thing like that once more,” she shared.
The “Comeback” actress additionally declared that she’ll “by no means say something dangerous about ‘Mates’ as a result of it’s nonetheless unbelievable work.”
Kudrow added, “There are many exhibits with big-name comedians from that point and they don’t seem to be humorous, however ‘Mates’ is.”
