Matt LeBlanc spilled the beans about Matthew Perry’s initial opinion of their recliner episode during “Friends: The Reunion” on HBO Max in 2021. LeBlanc said that Perry had come to him after going through the first draft of the episode where he and LeBlanc stay in their chairs the whole time. “[Y]ou came to me and went it’s so stupid but I went, ‘Yeah but that’s the brilliance,'” LeBlanc shared. That apparently got Perry thinking, and LeBlanc said the late actor said, “Yeah, maybe we can have fun with this,” which is exactly what they did.
We’re glad that Perry had LeBlanc there to reframe what he thought of the possibility in that episode as well as to have fun with as they filmed it. It’s sweet to then watch back that Season 2 episode knowing that they were able to enjoy themselves so much. While filming “Friends,” Perry was struggling with addiction to drugs and alcohol. And because of his substance abuse, he admitted to BBC Radio 2 that for Seasons 3 through 6 of “Friends,” he couldn’t really remember much. However, the recliner episode was in Season 2, and when LeBlanc asked Perry in the reunion special if he remembered that one, Perry said he did.
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