Friends director Kevin Bright has ‘no regrets’ about show’s all-white cast

The makers of the iconic nineties sitcom Friends have onc again talked about lack of diversity with its all-white cast.

Addressing the concerns, executive producer and director of the hit comedy series, Kevin Bright shared that he has no regrets. Speaking to the portal after the much-hyped Friends reunion special that was streamed on HBO Max, Bright said, “There are different priorities today and so much has changed.”

Series creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane also acknowledged that if the series were made today, the racial makeup of its six main stars would be different. He said that for the characters of Chandler and Phoebe, they selected the two best actors but did not intend to have an all-white cast.

“That was not the goal, either. Obviously, the chemistry between these six actors speaks for itself,” said Bright. “If we did Friends today, no, I don’t imagine they would probably end up being an all-white cast,” the 66 years old director said in the piece, which came on the heels of the Friends reunion special on HBO Max.

Friends which starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer as six twenty-somethings living in New York — have received criticism in the past for its all-white, heteronormative cast.