Entertainment Friends: Cast was ‘aggressive’ and ‘terrible’ to work with, says screenwriter Patty Lin worked on Friends season 7, and claimed the sitcom’s main cast was quite rude today at 10:05

Screenwriter of series like Freaks and Geeks, Desperate Housewives It is breaking bad, Patty Lin also worked on the seventh season of Friends, broadcast between 2000 and 2001, but did not have a good experience. According to the writer, the cast was “aggressive” and “aggressive” in the work environment.

starring Jennifer Aniston (Rachel Green), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay), David Schwimmer (Ross Geller), Courteney Cox (Monica Geller), Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing) It is Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani), Friends ran for 10 seasons and became one of the greatest comedy series of all time.

In her memoir, titled End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood, Lin recalled the career, both difficulties and cool moments. The information is from TEAM. “My disappointment [com a indústria] started in my first job as a writer, but was momentarily sidetracked by a positive experience in Freaks and Geeks,” he wrote.

Right away, Patty Lin revealed how excited she was to meet the cast of Friendsbut this excitement “passed quickly”: “The actors seemed unhappy to be chained to a tired old show when they could have been branching out, and I felt like they were constantly wondering how each script would specifically serve them.”

Furthermore, Lin claimed that when actors didn’t like a joke, they deliberately sabotaged it in order to rewrite it. According to the writer, “dozens of good jokes would be discarded” because the cast members altered lines or spoke “with a mouth full of bacon.”

She said that when they discussed the scripts with other writers on set, the actors rarely made positive comments: “This was the actors’ first opportunity to express their opinions, which they did vehemently. They rarely had anything positive to say. say, and when they raised problems, they didn’t suggest viable solutions.”

“Seeing themselves as guardians of the characters, they often argued that they would never do or say such and such,” continued Patty Lin. “That was sometimes helpful, but overall these sessions had a terrible, aggressive quality that lacked all the levity you’d expect from creating a sitcom.”

I didn’t learn much, except that I never wanted to work in a comedy again. But the choice had been clear at the time. And, for better or for worse, Friends would remain my most recognizable credit.