Friends star David Schwimmer has explained that Matthew Perry was ‘reserved’ with him when they starred on the hit sitcom.
Running for a decade from 1994 until 2004, the series also starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc as six friends living in New York City.
However last year Perry, who played Chandler Bing, died aged 54, with his co-stars issuing heartbreaking tributes soon after.
Now David, 57, has explained how Perry was ‘reserved’ when they worked together.
During a discussion on the Origins with Cush Jumbo podcast, the actress spoke about how Perry once praised David’s talent.
‘I worked with Matthew Perry for a year on The Good Fight which I loved doing and I’m recalling talking to him about how I knew you a little bit but not very much at that stage and I was talking to him about commedia and about physical comedy and all this stuff, and I was saying, “is David just someone who just does it? It just comes off of him?”,’ she explained.
‘He talks about how it’s not out of control at all, that you’re a linchpin person in a scene that mostly people were always looking to you know physically what direction things should go in, that without you being the pin, the other things don’t work which I thought was very, very complimentary and probably very true,’ she added.
Responding to the praise from his late co-star, David shared: ‘That’s interesting for many reasons, to hear that, because I don’t, that’s a huge compliment and I’m surprised to hear it because Matthew was reserved with me, he would not say that to me, but I appreciate that a lot.’
He continued: ‘Yeah, I am one of the few in the cast who had a rigorous theatre training and so and, in this way, in film or in anything that’s involving a stunt or anything physical, I think it’s gotta be finely, carefully, choreographed and I would work and work and work on any physical comedy in a scene.
‘I would meticulously structure and choreograph it, not only so that I never hurt myself or hurt anyone else but that I could repeat it many, many, many times so I think that’s what maybe he’s referring to.’
Following Perry’s death in October last year, Schwimmer mourned him with a throwback photo of them on set.
‘Matty, Thank you for ten incredible years of laughter and creativity. I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery,’ he recalled.
‘You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend it to your will, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes.
‘And you had heart. Which you were generous with, and shared with us, so we could create a family out of six strangers.’
He added that the photo was ‘one of my favorite moments with you’, saying it now ‘makes me smile and grieve at the same time’.
Friends is streaming on Netflix.
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