Lisa Kudrow Thinks 'Friends' Creators 'Had No Business' Writing About People of Color
justjared.comLisa Kudrow gave her reasoning as to why Friends co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane “had no business” writing about people of color.
The 59-year-old actress was asked about how she felt about the diversity on Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004. Click inside to read what she said… “Well, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college.
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,” Lisa told The Daily Beast.
In noting the lack of people of color in the industry, she added, “I think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, ‘Where’s the apprenticeship?’” Lisa had previously addressed the criticism of the lack of diversity on Friends.
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