AsFriendshits25 years on Sept. 22,the milestone anniversary is bringing outall kinds of revelations about the iconic sitcom.
“I was horrified.
I was absolutely horrified,” she says with another laugh.
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“Every time we got a rewrite in the script, there would be more making out!
I would just go, ‘Oh my god.
I just gotta close my eyes and do it.
Debra Jo Rupp, Giovanni Ribisi, Lisa Kudrow, and Cindy Katz in ‘Friends’ season 4, episode 12, ‘The One With the Embryos’.J. Delvalle/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
What else am I gonna do?'”
“He was such a sweet guy.
Boom, and he’s on me!”
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she says, laughing again.
I’m so fine with this."
“Kitty Forman, making out with the child!”
“They needed somebody who could make it believable,” she says.
“Apparently I had no problem with it whatsoever and made it entirely believable.”
“There was no socializing.
There was no chit-chat there,” she says.
“They weren’t like mean or dismissive or condescending at all.
That might have colored things a little bit.
I don’t know how it could not.
[But] they were very professional.”
“Because that was my character!
It was completely appropriate.”
Phoebe agrees to be their surrogate and ends up giving birth to triplets.
“I knew the show.
I loved the show.
I thought it was really funny,” Rupp says.
And when her oneFriendsappearance turned into a six-episode arc, Rupp was overjoyed.
And she also owes a huge personal debt of gratitude to herFriendsscene-partner Kudrow.
“Around this time, my mother was diagnosed with a very fast-moving Parkinson’s,” Rupp says.
Basically, they kept my mom alive.
It was just pretty amazing.
Lisa did it because Lisa is just who Lisa isjust a kind person."
And now thatFriendsis celebrating its 25th anniversary"I had a heart attack when I read that.
Why am I not dead yet?"
Rupp says with a laughshe’s finally ready to air what she considers to be an embarrassing secret.
“They had this big, huge party and I got Brad Pitt’s autograph.
I was like the geekiest, stupidest fan.”
“I don’t get recognized, it’s my voice that gets recognized,” she says wryly.
That laugh is just freaking obnoxious and I got stuck with it."
She pauses, then adds seriously, “I’m very careful now with how I laugh.”
