Actress Lisa Kudrow who essayed the role of Phoebe Buffay in the famous US sitcom ‘Friends’ has weighed in on the show’s diversity issue.
Kudrow starred in Friends as Phoebe Buffay, acting alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer all white actors.
Recently, she was asked about how she feels about the diversity on ‘Friends’ she pointed to the series creators, David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and said, “Well, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college.”
She added, “They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color. I think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, ‘Where’s the apprenticeship?'”
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In 2020, Friends came under radar for not showcasing more coloured characters, however, the show was also praised for its progressive storylines.
“There was a guy whose wife discovered she was gay and pregnant, and they raised the child together? We had surrogacy, too. It was, at the time, progressive,” Kudrow said, referencing Ross’ role raising a child with two women.
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