Hollywood actress Lisa Kudrow has called out the “mean” behaviour of the largely-male writers during the making of the iconic sitcom Friends. The 62-year-old actress, who became a household name playing Phoebe Buffay on the beloved sitcom, was close to the rest of the cast of the show but behind the scenes, things could be “intense”, with insults hurled if an actor messed up their line and a culture of lewd discussions. Lisa told The Times magazine, “There was definitely mean stuff going on behind the scenes. Don’t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers’ lines or it didn’t get the perfect response they could be like, ‘Can’t the b**** f***ing read? She’s not even trying. She f***** up my line’”. She referred to assistant Amaani Lyle’s failed legal action for sexual harassment, in which she alleged the writers, whose brainstorming she was tasked with transcribing, had discussed sleeping with Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, feigning masturbation and receiving oral sex. (IANS)
