Michael Lembeck talks about directing the Emmy-winning 'Friends' episode with guest stars Julia Roberts and Brooke Shields, and how Jean-Claude Van Damme and Andre Agassi's bad behavior complicated the set.
In “Inside the Episode,” writers and directors reflect on the making of their Emmy-winning episodes. Michael Lembeck was a seasoned stage performer well before he won the 1996 comedy directing Emmy for the “Friends” double-header “The One After the Super Bowl,” Parts 1 and 2 — the first, and only, time the NBC stalwart ever won in that category.
In your 20th year of directing and on a Friday night of filming a half-hour show, if you don’t have performance anxiety, then you don’t have a pulse. You have to care that much that you're concerned that it's not going to go well. So we've been rehearsing all week, and Julia and Matthew are enjoying time off the set as well as on the set and they get onto the couch for their first scene and she's green.
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