Matthew Perry refused to film Chandler cheating on Monica storyline on ‘Friends’

nypost.com:

TMZ, Cash, 54, said she was cast as an extra in the Season 5 episode “The One in Vegas: Part 1.” In the storyline, her character was initially going to sleep with Chandler after delivering room service. “The scene was Chandler and Monica [Courteney Cox] were arguing In Vegas about Monica having lunch with [ex-boyfriend] Richard [Tom Selleck],” Cash said. “And in our script, Chandler goes up to the hotel room and orders room service and I bring it up as a hotel worker. “And we end up talking and laughing and connecting and Chandler ends up cheating on Monica with my character.” According to Cash, Perry didn’t like the storyline and asked the show’s writers to change it. “We had rehearsed it,” Cash added. “And the day before we were supposed to shoot it in front of a live audience, I was told that [Perry] went to the writers and said the fans will never forgive [Chandler] for cheating on Monica.” “He was probably right,” Cash conceded. “That would have possibly changed the course of the show.” Despite being cut last minute, Cash still managed to appear in the 1999 episode as a flight attendant with Ross and Rachel (played by David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston).

Elsewhere in the interview, Cash praised Perry for being welcoming and making her feel comfortable while on the set of the hit sitcom.

Cash’s praise is just one of several touching tributes that have poured in for the late actor, 54, who was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Oct.

28. The Post reported that Perry had been found submerged and unresponsive in a hot tub at the time. “Los Angeles city firefighters responded to the 18000 block of West Blue Sail Drive at 4:07 p.m.