{"id":279675,"date":"2019-09-12T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1072748"},"modified":"2019-09-12T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:15:08","slug":"lisa-kudrow-credits-this-friends-co-star-with-helping-her-overcome-struggle-playing-phoebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/lisa-kudrow-credits-this-friends-co-star-with-helping-her-overcome-struggle-playing-phoebe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Kudrow Credits This Friends Co-Star With Helping Her Overcome Struggle Playing Phoebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.633333333333\">\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\/2019812\/rs_634x1024-190912133353-634-lisa-kudrowbooksmart-premirere-me-91219.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Lisa Kudrow\" alt=\"Lisa Kudrow\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Steve Granitz\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"29.69610935857\">\n<p>While <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lisa_kudrow\">Lisa Kudrow<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;nailed her role as Phoebe Buffay on <em>Friends<\/em>,&nbsp;playing the character&nbsp;wasn&#8217;t easy for her. So her co-star&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matt_leblanc\">Matt LeBlanc<\/a><\/strong> stepped up&nbsp;to help.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old&nbsp;star made her comments while hiking with&nbsp;<strong>Kevin Nealon<\/strong>&nbsp;for an episode of his&nbsp;YouTube web series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VvBzqU4m3XQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hiking With Kevin<\/a><\/em>, which was&nbsp;posted on Thursday.&nbsp; Kudrow, a graduate of the prestigious&nbsp;Vassar College, where she majored in Biology, rose to fame as an actress with her popular,&nbsp;eccentric and somewhat&nbsp;ditzy role on&nbsp;<em>Friends<\/em>, which aired for 10 seasons until 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had played dumb girls, sure.&nbsp;But it wasn&#8217;t really me,&#8221; Kudrow told Nealon. &#8220;I feel like s&#8211;t, I tricked them.&nbsp;At the audition, I was the only one who could cope&nbsp;with the audition process and that&#8217;s how I got it, I think. So I had to work hard at being Phoebe, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a few years, LeBlanc, who played&nbsp;Joey Tribbiani on the show, noticed something was wrong and gave Kudrow a needed pep talk.<\/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>&#8220;And then like third season in, I was struggling so much,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And Leblanc was like, &#8216;What&#8217;s going on with you?&#8217; And I said, &#8216;I can&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t think I have it, I mean, I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing.&#8217; And he went, &#8216;You&#8217;re her, relax, you got it. You&#8217;ve been&nbsp;doing this&nbsp;f&#8211;king character for three years. You&#8217;re working too hard. That&#8217;s your problem. You don&#8217;t need to work&nbsp;this hard. Relax.&#8217; He was right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>Kudrow also confessed that she has&nbsp;never actually watched an episode of&nbsp;<em>Friends<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-5-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019812\/rs_1024x759-190912140720-1024-lisa-kudrow-matt-leblanc-friends-me-91219.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow\" alt=\"Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">David Hume Kennerly\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>&#8220;I should,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I hear it&#8217;s good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1072748\/lisa-kudrow-credits-this-friends-co-star-with-helping-her-overcome-struggle-playing-phoebe?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Granitz\/WireImage While Lisa Kudrow&nbsp;nailed her role as Phoebe Buffay on Friends,&nbsp;playing the character&nbsp;wasn&#8217;t easy for her. So her co-star&nbsp;Matt LeBlanc stepped up&nbsp;to help. The 56-year-old&nbsp;star made her comments while hiking with&nbsp;Kevin Nealon&nbsp;for an episode of his&nbsp;YouTube web series Hiking With Kevin, which was&nbsp;posted on Thursday.&nbsp; Kudrow, a graduate of the prestigious&nbsp;Vassar College, where she [&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":["post-279675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 11:38:43","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\/279675","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=279675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}