'Friends: The Reunion' production designer John Shaffner shares the cast's reactions from when they first saw the recreated sets.
John Shaffner is truly going out with a bang. The veteran production designer with more than 100 credits to his name recently retired from the industry, but he’s leaving Hollywood behind with two more Emmy nominations: narrative, half-hour production design for “The United States of Al” and variety special production design for “Friends: The Reunion.
What was the process to rebuild the apartment sets when none of those pieces had been meticulously preserved for all these years? Yes, but once you get the walls, in particular, out of the warehouse after 17 years of sitting in a big dusty, dirty, birds-fly-through-it kind of place, they require a great deal of attention. And there really wasn’t any list, there were no pictures, there was nothing that showed what had been saved.
Yet you did include the beam that divides Monica’s kitchen and living room, mostly in Season 1 but in a handful of other episodes as well. Was that built into this version of the set to be structural or to facilitate the conversation around the fact that it came in and out of the original episodes? The whole point was to recreate the stage exactly as left it, so we put in bleachers — we put them all in the same place, the same size, and we custom-made the front railing with the Plexi in it because they don’t make those kind of railings anymore and you can’t rent them anymore. And we’d gotten as close as could to the same chairs and we had the neon “Friends” sign to hang in the back.
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