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Lisa Kudrow Says Friends Writers Berated Cast and Engaged in Sexual Talk About Co-Stars

Her account revives past claims about a writers’ room culture that courts later shielded as part of the creative process.

Overview

  • Lisa Kudrow, in a Times of London interview published Tuesday, described writers hurling insults at actors during live-audience tapings of Friends.
  • She said the mostly male room of about 12 to 15 writers stayed late discussing sexual fantasies about Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox.
  • Kudrow said the six leads still receive roughly $20 million each per year in royalties from reruns and streaming.
  • Her account echoes a 1999 complaint by assistant Amaani Lyle over sexual and racist comments, a case California courts dismissed in 2006.
  • No new legal action or public responses from former writers have been reported in this round of coverage.