Lisa Kudrow Spoke Out About The Lack Of Diversity In Friends

Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay on the show Friends, was asked to give her take on the common criticism during her interview with the Times in the UK.

She was asked what changes would be made if the show was filmed at this time.

“It would not be an all-white cast, for sure,” she said, adding that the show was a ‘time capsule’ of that era: “But, to me, [Friends] should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong.”

She also said that Friends was in some aspects way ahead of their time: “There was a guy whose wife discovered she was gay and pregnant, and they raised the child together. We had surrogacy, too. It was, at the time, progressive.”

“Yes, it’s a fun comedy, but it’s also about people connecting, and part of what appeals about it now is that young people have this unconscious nostalgia for personal connection. And not just right now during the pandemic, but before that.”