The late Matthew Perry nixed a 'Friends' storyline that would have put his beloved character in bed with another woman, the actor cast as his would-be fling…
Lisa Cash was going to play his on-screen fling, but she says Perry went to writers and had her role cut because the audience would"never forgive" Chandler nixed a"Friends" storyline that would have put his beloved character in bed with another woman, the actor cast as his would-be fling revealed Tuesday.
Perry feared that fans would"never forgive" Chandler Bing for cheating on Monica Geller — his on-screen love interest played by Courteney Cox — according to actor Lisa Cash, who had been tabbed to play the other woman. For two days, Cash rehearsed the role of a Las Vegas hotel worker bringing room service to Chandler, who was upset that Monica had lunch with her former boyfriend Richard, played by Tom Selleck. And in the course of Chandler pouring his heart out, he was set to cheat on Monica with Cash's character.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters."Matthew Perry said the audience would never forgive him," Cash told NBC News on Tuesday.
“Friends” still used Cash in that Season 5 episode — “The One in Vegas: Part I,” which aired May 20, 1999 — casting her as a flight attendant.
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