Friends is one of the most famous series of all time. Despite the fact that it was first broadcast on September 22, 1994, the American fiction created and produced by Marta Kauffman and David Crane continues to fall in love with millions of people around the world today.
The series presents the life of a group of friends (Joey Tribbiani, Phoebe Buffay, Chandler Bing, Rachel Green, Monica Geller and Ross Geller), who reside in the central neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. The fiction focuses comically on the little everyday things that happen to each of the protagonists, making it easy for the viewer to connect with them and feel identified.
As we have previously mentioned, the American series has a strong following of fans around the world who fondly remember the anecdotes of the characters played by Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry or Jennifer Aniston.
Although many detractors of the popular series have criticized on numerous occasions that the fiction presents macho, racist topics, LGTBIphobic attitudes... this is justified with the argument that "those were other times" in which social conscience did not yet exist that we have today.
Although everything seems like a bed of roses, one of the writers of the mythical series has set social networks on fire by confessing in a book that she does not keep a good memory of her experience in Friends.
Patty Lin came to fiction in its seventh season and did not feel very comfortable with her work, since the actors supposedly questioned the script and removed everything they wanted. The author has spoken at length about the subject in her new book: End Credits: How I Break Up With Hollywood.
In the script readings before filming, moments that the author has described as "aggressive sessions," the actors expressed their opinions without maintaining respect for those who wrote the dialogues. "The actors seemed unhappy to be chained to a veteran series, and I felt that they constantly wondered how each script could serve them in a specific way," explains the woman in her book.
"They all knew how to make people laugh, but if they didn't like a joke they seemed to sabotage it, knowing we'd rewrite it. Dozens of good jokes were thrown out just because one of them muttered the line with a mouthful of bacon. They rarely had anything positive going for them. say and, when they posed problems, they did not suggest solutions", the screenwriter states in her work.
The woman later worked on other series of the moment such as Breaking Bad or Desperate Housewives, but Friends was the first project in which she felt she did not fit in the film industry.
As he narrates in the publication, there was no feeling with the creators. For her, David Crane was "an impossible-to-please workaholic, who always wanted a better joke" and regarding Marta Kauffman, she says that she tried not to be alone with her and "have to talk."
