Zack Sharf Lisa Kudrow made headlines in May 2020 when she acknowledged that “Friends” had a serious lack of diversity during its 10 season run on NBC.
The actor said that if the show ever returned to TV then “it would not be an all-white cast.” In a new interview with The Daily Beast, however, Kudrow somewhat stood by the original sitcom’s lack of diversity, or least made sense of it.
The actor said “Friends” creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman had “no business” telling stories about people of color given their own backgrounds.“Well, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college,” Kudrow said. “And for shows especially, when it’s going to be a comedy that’s character-driven, you write what you know.
They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color.” Kudrow added, “I think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, ‘Where’s the apprenticeship?'”Apprenticeship is now of upmost importance to “Friends” co-creator Kauffman, who told the Los Angeles Times earlier this year, “I want to make sure from now on in every production I do that I am conscious in hiring people of color and actively pursue young writers of color.
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