He could be more charming?
Matthew Perry made an extra effort to persuade Julia Roberts to play in the 1996 one-hour Super Bowl episode of “Friends.”
“Matthew asked her to be on the show,” executive producer Kevin Bright told The Hollywood Reporter. “He wrote back, ‘Write me a paper on quantum physics and I’ll do it.’ I understand that Matthew left and wrote a paper and faxed it to him the next day. ”
The Hollywood Reporter interviewed the producers, writers and staff of the hit series before its new reboot of the epic episode the guest played Roberts, Brooke Shields, Chris Isaak, Jean Claude van Damme and revealed that Perry made an extra effort. to get the Oscar winner.
Roberts and Perry hit him by fax.
They may have known each other before the episode, but she was interested in him from afar, because he is so charming, ”said personal writer Alexa Junge. “It simply came to our notice then. He would give her these questionnaires like, “Why should I go out with you?” And everyone in the writers’ room helped him explain why. He could do pretty well without us, but there was no doubt that we are in Matthew’s team and we are trying to do this for him. ”
Apparently, the extra help worked. During filming, co-writer Jeff Astrof recalled, “He kept saying,“ Chandler is so funny! And I say, “I wrote each of these lines!” I don’t know if he fell in love with Matthew right away, but they soon started dating. I felt like Cyrano [de Bergerac]. For example, “Chandler is going out with Julia Roberts and I’m going home to my horrible girlfriend.” ”
Meanwhile, Brooke Shields did not have such a pleasant experience, thanks to her then-boyfriend (whom she will later marry) Andre Agassi.
Director Michael Lembeck told The Hollywood Reporter that the tennis ace was particularly upset at a scene in which Shields licked Matt LeBlanc’s fingers.
“Brooke was with Andre Agassi at the time,” Lembeck recalled. “He appears on the night of filming and is in the audience with the biggest hamburger bodyguard. He makes the scene where he starts licking Matt’s hand. Then I see him coming down, pulling Brooke aside and eviscerating her because he’s crazy-jealous. It is reduced to tears! We broke up the show for a while, and the girls took Brooke aside and loved her, took care of her, and brought her back on stage. He did great thanks to the support of the three. He was a bastard. “