“There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of ‘Friends’ and find them offensive,” the “Murder Mystery 2” star admitted.
“Friends” aired from 1994 to 2004 and has been criticized in recent years for itsThroughout the 10-year run of the show, the sitcom continued to whitewash New York City and rarely featured a character of color. “Friends” only introduced two recurring characters of color, both of whom were brought on as short-lived love interests for Ross.
“There were things that were never intentional and others…well, we should have thought it through, but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there is now,” Aniston, 54, said about some of the show’s more controversial plot lines that would likely“Comedy has evolved — movies have evolved,” the Emmy-winning “Morning Show” star added.
Aniston also believes that the world would be a much sadder place without humor. “Everybody needs funny,” she pointed out. “WeAs for the lack of diversity present in “Friends,” star Lisa Kudrowabout how the show’s writers struggled with including characters of color during the 10-season run. Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry in a 1995 episode of “Friends.”last year how series creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman did not have the resources or the knowledge to write stories about people of different races.“Well, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college,” Kudrow explained.
“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.”with a $4 million donation to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to fund an endowed chair in the school’s African and African American studies department, one of the oldest in the country. pushed her to reckon with the country’s racist past and her own part in perpetuating systems of racism.
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