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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Lisa Kudrow Admitted that Playing Phoebe on Friends Was ‘Work’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When we love shows as fans, like Tany does Friends
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  Speaker 2: or what's the other one? To raise anatomy, it's easy
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  Speaker 2: to imagine working on one of those sets would be
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  Speaker 2: a dream. Have you ever wondered what being an actor
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  Speaker 2: on Friends was like?
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  Speaker 3: Every day of my life?
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  Speaker 2: Who would you be?
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  Speaker 3: I would be Phoebe?
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  Speaker 1: Really yeah? Or Monica?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go with Lisa Kudro famously start as Phoebe
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  Speaker 2: on Friends, she said to Variety, playing Or actually felt
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  Speaker 2: like work.
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  Speaker 4: I know, she said, Phoebe was so far from who
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  Speaker 4: she was, and it was literal work to understand her
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  Speaker 4: and how to justify everything Phoebe was saying in her head,
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  Speaker 4: so it felt real to her and too the fans
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  Speaker 4: when she delivered the lines.
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  Speaker 2: And it was.
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  Speaker 3: Actually Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey, who gave her perspective.
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  Speaker 3: But not until season three she was worried that she
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  Speaker 3: was slacking, not doing the work, and he was like, you.
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  Speaker 2: Are her now you don't have to, and she says,
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  Speaker 2: it's still hard to let go. She felt she was
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  Speaker 2: not being a good student and is that called good
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  Speaker 2: student syndrome? Yes? Sure I got over that.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever happen to begin with?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course I did in a couple of classes.
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  Speaker 2: Sicany by the way, Lisa, you can catch her next
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  Speaker 2: in the long awaited season three. The Comeback is what
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  Speaker 2: it's called HBO.
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  Speaker 1: That's in spring, that's direct from Hollywood.