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But as Kauffman and Crane began to write the pilot script for a show now titled "Friends Like Us,” some early plans started to shift. The biggest was a love story pitched to NBC, that never...
Mar 14, 2024 · While NBC bought this idea, as the script started coming to life, Kauffman and Crane began to write the pilot script for a show now titled “Friends Like Us” which then became “Six Of...
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It was only three years later that we were pitching Friends, so we’d just been living it—that point in your life when your friends are your family. MARTA KAUFFMAN: And we wanted to write ...
Creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane take us behind the scenes on the creation of the show, the dynamics between characters and watching Friends become a ...
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- 15 The Show Was Inspired by Marta Kauffman and David Crane’s Daily Lives
- 11 They Initially Asked Courteney Cox to Play Rachel
- 10 They Were Thinking of Janeane Garofalo When They Wrote The Monica Character
- 9 They Never Meant to Turn Joey Into A ‘Stupid’ Character
- 8 There Was A Version of The Pilot Where Rachel’s Parents Would Show Up
- 7 Someone in Their Writer’s Room Came Up with Joey’s ‘How You Doin’ Catchphrase
- 1 They Definitely Decided That Season 10 Had to Be The End For The Show
“When David and I lived in New York, we had a group of six friends. We were all each other’s best friends. We hung out all the time; we were like a family,” Kauffman told The Cut. “So later, when we were thinking of shows that could have an ensemble cast, it occurred to us to look back at that point in our lives. That was the birth of the idea for ...
“We originally offered Rachel to Courteney Cox, but she said she wanted to do Monica, not Rachel,” Kauffman told Vanity Fair. Crane also recalled, “Courteney had just come off a terrible Bronson Pinchot show, where she played the wife.” Kauffman added, “There was something about Courteney that was adorable.” As you know, Cox eventually got the role...
“When we originally wrote the role, we had Janeane Garofalo’s voice in our head,” Crane told Vanity Fair. “Darker and edgier and snarkier, and Courteney brought a whole bunch of other colors to it. We decided that, week after week, that would be a lovelier place to go to.” Kauffman added, “And more maternal.”
“Joey was never stupid when we pitched the show,” Crane told Vanity Fair. “He wasn’t stupid until we were shooting the pilot, and somebody said, ‘Matt plays dumb really well.’” Kauffman added, “And he had so much heart. Down deep, you just wanted to take care of him. You knew that, at some point, he’d fall in love.”
“In the pilot, the structure is really loose. We started out doing a much more traditional story. It still had to do with Rachel leaving a guy at the altar, but we had an original version where her parents came, and the act break [before going to a commercial] was her parents’ showing up. It wasn’t good,” Crane told Vanity Fair. “We approached it a...
“It was someone in the [writer's] room,” the Friends co-creator revealed to Glamour during an interview. “I don't [remember who]. But when it was first introduced, it wasn't introduced as a catchphrase. It was [just] a line, and then it became a catchphrase as it went along.” That catchphrase remains one of the most recognized ones to this day.
“Because of the actors’ contract negotiations, and it seemed as though, ‘Oh, season 7 is the last season.’ Or season 8. Or season 9. So each of those seasons we had an eye toward, ‘Okay, if this is the last year, what are we doing?’” Crane told Entertainment Weekly. “And then amazingly there was a rising from the ashes, last minute: ‘Oh my god, the...
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Kauffman and Crane had not long moved to LA, leaving behind their own group of close-knit friends in New York City. This – combined with Kaufmann driving past a LA coffee shop full of...
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Kauffman and Crane began writing a pilot script for a show now titled Friends Like Us, which took three days to write. Littlefield wanted the series to represent Generation X and explore a new kind of tribal bonding, but the trio did not share his vision.
