Lisa Kudrow has recently dished out interesting details about playing her character Phoebe Buffay in hit sitcom Friends.
The Easy A actress made an appearance for Variety’s Actors on Actors series as she spoke to US actress Parker Posey revealed the role was “a lot of work” because she was so different from the character.
“The series was fun the whole time, because we had fun, the cast had fun,” said the 61-year-old who starred in the sitcom alongside Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Matt Le Blanc and the late Matthew Perry.
“It was like a collaboration with the writers, because they were so great and nice and good,” pointed out the Mad About You actress.
Lisa noted, “But me being Phoebe was so far from who I was as a human being that it was work.”
“I needed to justify everything she was saying in my head so that it felt like she meant it and it was real to her. It was a lot of work,” explained the Time Bandits actress.
Lisa recalled the show’s season two or three, and “I was just doing it, and went, ‘Oh my god, I’m not doing the work”.
“I was really fretting over it. And LeBlanc went, ‘What’s the matter with you?’. I said, ‘I’m not doing the work that I did,” mentioned the Romy actress.
Lisa added, “I used to like really work, and he said, ‘You’re her. You don’t have to do it anymore’.”