{"id":266605,"date":"2019-02-01T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1010667"},"modified":"2019-02-01T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:16:15","slug":"matt-leblanc-was-down-to-11-before-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/matt-leblanc-was-down-to-11-before-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt LeBlanc Was Down to $11 Before Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.269406392694\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018624\/rs_634x1024-180724081052-634-matt-leblanc-friends.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Matt LeBlanc, Friends\" alt=\"Matt LeBlanc, Friends\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">NBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.632465543645\">\n<p>Before landing the role of a lifetime, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matt_leblanc\">Matt LeBlanc<\/a><\/strong>was getting down to his last dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0<em>Friends<\/em> alum recalled to\u00a0<strong>Conan O&#8217;Brien<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>on Thursday night&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Conan<\/em>, money was dangerously tight before his big break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know when you think, &#8216;Alright, I got a little money in the bank. I can hold out until the next gig,'&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;I think I was down to $11&#8230;now, that&#8217;s holding out too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The star acknowledged, &#8220;I would have starved.&#8221; Fortunately, a little bit of luck was on the broke struggling actor&#8217;s side because he ultimately landed the role of struggling actor Joey Tribbiani and starred on the iconic tv series for a decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>Until then, however, he made it work with whatever he had. During his appearance on the late-night talk show, he recalled going to get headshot taken when he suddenly had to channel his inner dentist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As LeBlanc recalled, the photographer suggested he go see a dentist to have one of his front teeth filed before they took the portraits because it was longer than the other. After visiting a dentist and learning he would have to pay somewhere around $80 for the filing, he opted out and instead headed to a drugstore. There, he picked up a pack of emery boards and filed away. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very frugal,&#8221; the actor noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the best part of the story was the photographer&#8217;s reaction. &#8220;He goes, &#8216;They did a nice job.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1010667\/matt-leblanc-was-down-to-11-before-friends?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Before landing the role of a lifetime, Matt LeBlancwas getting down to his last dollars.\u00a0 As the\u00a0Friends alum recalled to\u00a0Conan O&#8217;Brien\u00a0on Thursday night&#8217;s\u00a0Conan, money was dangerously tight before his big break.\u00a0 &#8220;You know when you think, &#8216;Alright, I got a little money in the bank. I can hold out until the next gig,&#8217;&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 17:11:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}