The Hollywood Reporter toured Central Perk and Joey and Chandler's apartment — and spoke to Gunther (James Michael Tyler) and Janice (Maggie Wheeler) — ahead of a month-long immersive experience to celebrate the classic NBC sitcom.
"That was five years ago for the 20th and I thought, 'This will probably be the last time they do athing. So, I’ll bleach my hair one last time and I’ll go and do the Gunther-y thing.' I love that character. I have a lot of affinity for Gunther. He was a bit mysterious for 10 years and largely unexplored. Nobody even knew his last name."
"The role of Janice was initially for one scene — that scene in the coffee shop where she says, 'I brought you socks. Mix and match—moose and squirrel,'" she says of the coffeehouse break-up between Janice and Chandler. "I can remember every detail about sitting in that scene with him and saying those lines and trying not to laugh when he was knocking back all those espressos.
"There was genuine camaraderie and love between the castmembers — that was not manufactured in any way," says Wheeler. "So right away, you are in this warm environment where people really enjoy being together and that, of course, is rare and wonderful. It was also a very collaborative environment creatively; there was a lot of room for people to share ideas, work out a bit or try it a different way. Our ideas were welcome.
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