Friends cast were in uproar over controversial ‘incestuous’ storyline

The Friends formed pushed backmost against 1 arguable storyline – and it wasn’t whether Ross and Rachel were connected a break.

The iconic sitcom ran for 10 years earlier ending successful 2004, and instantly transformed stars Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow into household names.

Ahead of the 30-year anniversary of the archetypal occurrence airing, writer Adam Chase reflected connected immoderate of the astir jaw-dropping moments successful a caller chat, revealing that the pack truly weren’t thrilled astir 2 of the friends concisely dating.

Unpacking the determination to concisely brace Rachel (Jennifer) and Joey (Matt) unneurotic astatine the extremity of play 9 and starring into the 10th and last series, he confessed that determination was a batch of resistance.

‘The formed was precise overmuch against it,’ helium told the Guardian. ‘It felt precise incestuous to them.’

Rachel’s romance with Joey was short-lived and they rapidly went backmost to being champion friends, earlier she famously got disconnected the plane to commencement things up again with on-off fellow Ross (David) successful the finale.

But, ever since the credits rolled, determination has been a immense statement astir whether she should person stayed connected her formation to Paris…

Lifting the lid connected immoderate different couples successful the Friends universe, writer Andrew Reich explained that they hadn’t initially planned for Chandler (Matthew) and Monica (Courteney) to beryllium an endgame pairing.

In fact, their narration blossomed because of however the assemblage reacted to the archetypal uncover aft their fling successful London, astatine the extremity of play four.

‘It shook us,’ Andrew continued. ‘We each conscionable benignant of looked astatine each different like, “Wow, this is overmuch bigger than we thought.”’

Their narration rapidly transformed from a vacation romance to thing overmuch deeper, with the characters tying the knot astatine the extremity of the seventh season, and welcoming twins via a surrogate successful the finale.

However, it was revealed that Perry, who died successful 2023, secretly stepped successful aft learning of plans for his quality to cheat successful Las Vegas.

Last year, Lisa Cash opened up astir the scrapped crippled and shared that she was primitively meant to look arsenic Chandler’s emotion involvement for the play 5 episode, the One In Vegas, earlier it was axed.

‘The country was – Chandler and Monica were arguing successful Las Vegas astir Monica having luncheon with [her ex-boyfriend] Richard,’ she told TMZ.

‘In our script, Chandler goes up to his edifice country and orders country work and I bring it up arsenic a edifice worker.

‘We extremity up talking and laughing and connecting.’

‘The time earlier filming, I was told that helium went to the writers and said the fans volition ne'er forgive Chandler for cheating connected Monica,’ she continued, adding that helium was ‘probably right’ arsenic the matter would person ‘changed the people of the show’.

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