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Entertainer Ellen DeGeneres asked Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe) during an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) about the idea of doing a "Friends" movie, to which she answered: "Yeah, it would be really fun, but I don't think it's happening. I don't think it's really been a plan." She also asked Courteney Cox about the same thing during another interview, to which she joked: "Has that Sex and the City (2008) movie come out yet? We'll see how that does!"
Joey was originally written as a jerk. When Matt LeBlanc questioned why the others would be friends with him, the character was changed.
When Matt LeBlanc auditioned for the role of Joey, he had eleven dollars to his name. When the cast got their first paychecks, the first thing that LeBlanc bought was a hot dinner. Courteney Cox bought a car.
When Courteney Cox dressed as fat Monica for the first time, Matthew Perry walked right past her without recognizing her.
Courteney Cox was originally supposed to play Rachel. In Friends: The Reunion (2021), she explained that she asked to play Monica instead, since she related to her more.
Lisa Kudrow and her best friend wrote "Smelly Cat" one night when they were drunk, and it eventually got written into the show.