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Oct 29, 2023 · In his 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, and The Big Terrible Thing, Perry wrote about why it was so important to him for his character Chandler to have the last line in the hugely popular TV show Friends.
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Nov 10, 2022 · According to Perry, the reason he got to say the final line was because he asked the show’s co-creator and executive producer Marta Kauffman if he could do so. He wrote in his new...
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Nov 6, 2023 · Matthew Perry revealed shortly before his death on Oct. 28 that he begged "Friends" producer Marta Kauffman aside and begged her to give him the final line of the series.
Nov 3, 2023 · Now, fans are highlighting an excerpt from Perry's 2022 memoir - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - in which he explains his desire to be the cast member who had the final line on Friends back in 2004.
- He Was in A Coma After His Colon Erupted
- He Has Spent Upward $7 Million Trying to Get Sober
- He Almost Didn’T Play Chandler on 'Friends'
- He and Ex-Girlfriend Julia Roberts Flirted Over Fax
- He Crushed on Co-Star Valerie Bertinelli and Other A-Listers
- He Was Living in Rehab When Monica and Chandler Got Married on 'Friends'
- He Struggled After 'Friends' Came to An End
- He Was Meant to Star Alongside Meryl Streep in 'Don’T Look Up'
- Cameron Diaz Once Accidentally Punched Him
- He Is Learning How to Overcome 'The Big Terrible Thing'
The actor opens up his book by recalling his near death experience in 2019after his colon burst as a result of opioid overuse. At the hospital, Perry underwent emergency surgery for seven hours. His family was told he had a two percent chance of making it through the night. “I will have to live out the rest of my days knowing that my mother and oth...
Perry says his journey with addiction has been both arduous and costly. According to the actor's memoir, he has spent upward $7 million trying to get sober and has been to rehab 15 times (in an interview with the New York Times, Perry said the number was more like $9 million). “I’ve been in a mental institution, gone to therapy twice a week for thi...
Could picturing a world where Chandler was not played by Matthew Perry, beany more impossible? Well, the actor reveals this was almost the case. At the time when auditions for “Friends,” originally titled “Friends Like Us,” were happening, Matthew Perry was under contract with another show called “L.A.X 2194.” “I was devastated,” Perry writes. “Whe...
Perry had a short-lived and very public romance with Julia Robertsin 1995. “She was the biggest movie star in the world, and I was on the number one show on TV," he said. "Friends" co-creator Marta Kauffman initially asked Perry to reach out in an attempt to convince Roberts to appear on the show's post Super Bowl episode. The two then began corres...
In 1990, four years before "Friends" premiered, Perry starred on a CBS sitcom called "Sydney" with Valerie Bertinelli. Perry, then 19, had a crush on Bertinelli, then 30, who was married to Eddie Van Halen at the time. “I was completely captivated,” Perry writes. “I mean, I was obsessed with her and harbored elaborate fantasies about her leaving Ed...
In the book, Perry says Season Nine of the show was the only season of "Friends" he filmed while fully sober (he mentions that he received his only Emmy nomination for that season). Perry says he thought he was keeping his addiction a secret from his cast-mates until Aniston came to his dressing room one dayand told him everyone could smell alcohol...
Perry said that when “Friends” came to an end, he "felt nothing." "I couldn’t tell if that was because of the opioid buprenorphine I was taking, or if I was just generally dead inside," Perry writes. He recalls waking up the morning after the finale was filmed, thinking about what he was going to do next. “With no ridiculously high paying, dream-co...
Perry’s opportunity to star in more serious dramatic roles, appeared in 2020 when director Adam McKay approached him about a role in Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up.” He was to play a journalist and have three scenes alongside Meryl Streep. “This would be the biggest movie I’d gotten ever,” Perry writes. However, around this time, Perry had been at a reha...
Perry reveals he once got set up on a date with Cameron Diaz following her split from Justin Timberlake. During the dinner party, Perry writes that "it was clear Diaz was interested in (him) at all," after she "got almost instantly stoned." The night led to the group playing a game of Pictionary. After saying something witty to Diaz, she went to pu...
Perry says that his therapist helped him quit drugs by telling him to associate them with the possibility of having to wear a colostomy bag "for the rest of (his) life." “I have not been interested in taking a drug since,” he writes, later adding, "I've surrendered, but to the winning side, not the losing. I'm not longer mired in an impossible batt...
Nov 9, 2022 · Matthew Perry had the last line of dialogue in the series finale of Friends and that was at his request. In the last episode of the sitcom, which ran on NBC from 1994 to 2004 and centered...
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Nov 10, 2022 · When Friends released its series finale, ending its 10 year run as one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, Matthew Perry ‘s Chandler Bing delivered the final line, and it was by request....
