Friends fans say young Chandler Bing is ‘best casting ever’ after seeing actor grown up

Friends fans person hailed a casting determination made astir 30 years ago, calling it ‘the champion ever’ aft coming crossed the aforesaid histrion successful 2024.

Joshua Duvall Preston, present 35, starred successful a solitary occurrence of the legendary 1990s sitcom, playing a precise young Chandler Bing.

The satellite was shocked and heartbroken successful October 2023 erstwhile Chandler’s main actor, Matthew Perry, died suddenly astatine the property of conscionable 54.

But Perry’s representation lives connected successful his performance arsenic Chandler, with Friends remaining hugely fashionable to this time connected streaming platforms similar Netflix.

And a funny person, who was re-watching Friends for the 100th time, had a pleasant astonishment erstwhile they went looking for the lone different histrion to play Chandler connected the show.

By 1998, the deed sitcom was 1 of the biggest shows successful the world, with its peculiar Thanksgiving episodes a November staple successful galore American households.

In the 5th play occurrence The One With All the Thanksgivings, Joshua, 9 years aged astatine the time, played a young Chandler successful a flashback.

During the Thanksgiving flashback, nine-year-old Chandler is told by his parent Nora (Morgan Fairchild) that she is readying to divorcement Chandler’s dad.

The crushed for the divorcement is an matter that the unnamed Mr. Bing has been having with ‘the location boy’, who past serves turkey to a traumatised Chandler.

At that constituent successful the series, the afloat individuality of Chandler’s dada is not known, and his look is ne'er seen successful the country starring the young Chandler.

Joshua past gives his champion content of Chandler’s outraged look – contempt not having immoderate lines, helium near a immense people connected the series.

And fans connected Reddit celebrated him connected Thursday, with fans incapable to incorporate their excitement that Joshua present resembled Perry truthful much.

‘Never looked him up until today. They person the aforesaid smile!’ said Bidb90, portion Canentia spotted the aforesaid thing: ‘They adjacent grin the same, that’s crazy.’

Some radical adjacent thought that the young Chandler had been played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was besides a sitcom kid prima successful the 1990s.

The idiosyncratic who brought it up, who has since deleted their Reddit account, called the determination to formed Joshua, ‘Honest to god, the champion casting [choice].’

Before his little enactment connected Friends, Joshua helium besides starred successful the 1995 films Nixon and Father of the Bride 2, which starred Steve Martin.

However, aft Friends, Joshua took a agelong interruption from acting, lone returning to the manufacture successful 2016 successful the abbreviated movie The Belsen Baby.

He made a instrumentality to TV successful the 2017 bid Alternative Lifestyle, besides known arsenic Sugar Pine 7, and past the abbreviated fearfulness movie The Woods.

Since leaving TV and movie behind, Joshua has been moving successful the voiceover industry, providing words for commercials successful America.

Friends is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix successful the UK.

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