Lisa Kudrow secretly helped nervous young actor on 'Friends'

Craig Robinson looked back on a memorable act of kindness from Lisa Kudrow.

During his early days on Friends, Craig shared that Lisa stepped in when he felt nervous on the set.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, the actor recalled filming a small role in the sitcom's 2004 episode The One with Princess Consuela, where he played a government clerk helping Phoebe Buffay, played by Lisa, change her name after marrying Mike Hannigan, played by Paul Rudd.

As Craig was still trying establish himself in Hollywood at the time, he said, "I ended up working with Lisa later. We played a married couple in Table 19, actually. So we got real cool."

"But back then, it was pretty much one scene, there really wasn't much else. We rehearsed it twice and then they did a pitch, and Lisa was cool enough to speak up for me."

Recalling the moment from Friends set, Craig said, "I had thrown out a line that she heard, but nobody else heard it. She was like, 'We have a pitch!'"

"and she got to react to it. But that was because of her, because I was just in there like, 'I'm a freaking friend! What are you talking about?'" he added.

Later, Craig Robinson reunited with Lisa Kudrow while playing her husband in 2017 comedy Table 19.