Lisa Kudrow has said she had to put "a lot of work" into the early days of Friends and admits it took her a couple of seasons to really settle into the sitcom.
The 61-year-old actress, who played the loveable singer Phoebe Buffay in the popular 1990s sitcom alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer, said it took her a while to feel like she had the iconic character down.
Speaking to the SiriusXM show Where Everybody Knows Your Name, she said: "[It was] if not a year and a half, maybe two seasons, before I felt like I had Phoebe down.
"The things she said were so outrageously illogical that in order for me to justify them, you know, I felt like 'Oof! It just took a lot of work to figure out," she said.
The Better Nate Than Ever star revealed how she thought she was being "lazy" by the time the second year came around and said she was extremely grateful to her co-star, Matt LeBlanc, and his wise words.
She added: "I'm slacking off. I’m being lazy and I was getting really mad at myself, and LeBlanc came. He said, 'What’s going on with you?' I said, 'I’m being lazy. I’m not doing the work that I did first season, second season. I’m not doing the work I did for Phoebe, so it can’t be good.
"And he went, 'No, you know who the character is now. You don’t need to do the work you did. You got it," and I went, 'What? Oh'.
"That was enough," she said.
"It's sort of like someone shook me 'cause I was getting hysterical. I wasn’t literally getting hysterical, but you know like if you’re getting hysterical, someone slaps you back. You’re like, 'Oh, thanks. That’s what I needed."
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