Friends star Matthew Perry has revealed that at one stage he “begged” the show’s creative team to ditch one of his character’s most recognisable trademarks.
Matthew is best known to most people for his Emmy-nominated performance as Chandler Bing in the much-loved sitcom, which ran between 1994 and 2004.
Throughout Friends’ early years, Chandler was famous for his very specific cadence when he spoke, of which Matthew joked in his new book Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible: “Could it be more annoying?”
According to Variety, the actor “had to beg the producers” to write Chandler’s lines differently as the show progressed, as well as requesting they ditch his character’s signature sweater-vests.
“[It] had been so played out that if I had to put the emphasis in the wrong place one more time, I thought I’d explode,” Matthew claimed.
“So I just went back to saying lines normally, for the most part in season six and then beyond.”
