Last month, Marta Kauffman, co-creator of the series “Friends”, confessed. In an interview with the Los Angeles Timesthe 65-year-old woman explained that she had “shame” of the lack of diversity in “Friends”. “I have learned a lot over the past 20 years. Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. Looking in the mirror is painful”she confided before sharing her embarrassment at not having been able to “do better 25 years ago”.
Electroshock? The murder of Georges Floyd in May 2020. “It was after what happened to George Floyd that I started to question that I had participated in systemic racism in a way that I had never been aware of”had explained the one who took off the career of Jennifer Aniston.
A few years earlier, Marta Kauffman had already shared this observation. “I wish I had known then what I know now. I’m sorry. I wish I had known, I could have made different decisions”she confessed, noting that she did not have “does enough”. “Now I can only think of what I could have done! What would I do differently today? How would I steer my series in a new direction?”she then wondered.
On August 10, it was the turn of Lisa Kudrow aka Phoebe Buffay in “Friends”, to speak on the lack of diversity in the series. “I think this show was just written by two people who came from Brandeis, who wanted to write about life after college. For these types of shows, especially for comedies that are so character-driven, you write about what you know. They knew nothing about the life of colored people, they could not have written about them. I think that at the time, what challenged me, above all, was the lack of learning of these characters“, said the one who received an astronomical sum for the special episode broadcast last year.
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