Aisha Tyler recalls thinking she definitely wouldn't land the part on Friends after seeing Lisa Bonet at the audition
was unique for being the only Black actor in a recurring role on the series. Even at the time, Tyler recalls in a new“But what I liked was that they just wrote this smart, sexy character and she happened to be Black and they weren’t trying to seismically change what the show was,” she reflects, “but they were aware of the fact that it didn’t feel totally representative of the world as it existed then or had existed for many, many, many decades.
Instead, Tyler was cast. Though Charlie wasn’t written in the script explicitly as a woman of color, “I knew that me coming on the show was an aspect of that self-reflection” on the show’s lack of diversity, she said. “was also reflective of a whole business that thought that only white stories sold. I mean, that’s just been the attitude in Hollywood for a long time. They’d say people won’t watch a show with these characters, and now we all know that’s not true,” Tyler added.
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