He could to be any more charming?
Matthew Perry made an extra effort to convince Julia Roberts to star in the one-hour episode after the 1996 Super Bowl of “Friends.”
“Matthew asked him to participate in the show,” executive producer Kevin Bright told The Hollywood Reporter. “He replied, ‘Write me an article on quantum physics and I will. I understand that Matthew left, wrote a paper, and faxed it to him the next day.’
The Hollywood Reporter interviewed the producers, writers and staff of the show’s success before its new reboot regarding the epic episode starring Roberts, Brooke Shields, Chris Isaak, Jean Claude van Damme and which revealed that Perry made an extra effort to get the Oscar winner. .
Roberts and Perry got it by fax.
They may have known each other before the episode, but she was interested in him from afar because he is very charming, ”said staff writer Alexa Junge. “There was a lot of flirting by fax. She would give him these questionnaires like, “Why should I go out with you?” And everyone in the writers ’room helped him explain why. He could have done quite well without us, but there was no doubt that we were on the Matthew team and we were trying to make it so. ”
Apparently, the extra help worked. During filming, co-writer Jeff Astrof recalled, “She kept saying,‘ Chandler is so much fun! “And I say to myself,‘ I wrote all these lines! ’I don’t know if he fell in love with Matthew at the time, but they soon started dating. I felt like Cyrano [de Bergerac]. Like “Chandler will go out with Julia Roberts and come home with my horrible girlfriend.”
Meanwhile, Brooke Shields did not have such a pleasant experience thanks to her boyfriend (whom she would later marry) Andre Agassi.
Director Michael Lembeck told The Hollywood Reporter that the tennis ace was especially upset by a scene in which Shields licked Matt LeBlanc’s fingers.
“Brooke was with Andre Agassi at the time,” Lembeck recalled. “He shows up on filming night and sits in the audience with the biggest burger bodyguard. He does the scene where he starts licking Matt’s hand. Then I see him come down, push Brooke aside and gut her because she’s crazy-jealous.It’s reduced to tears! I broke up the show for a while and the girls took Brooke aside and loved her, cared for her and brought her back on stage. She did very well thanks to the support of these three. He was a fool. “