Lisa Kudrow says Friends cast wouldn't be 'all-white' if it were set today
The actress, who portrayed free-spirit Phoebe Buffay on the series for all 10 seasons, toldtook place today, "it’d be completely different. It would not be an all-white cast, for sure."
Including Phoebe, all six main characters on the show were white, as were the majority of their friends and acquaintances. Kudrow added that the series, which ran from 1994 to 2004, "should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong." She also noted the show was ahead of its times in other ways, referencing a storyline involving Ross raising a child with his ex-wife Carol and her wife Susan.
“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," Kudrow said.Friends“One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian-American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part," he told the outlet
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