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Op vrijdag 28 mei 2021 22:48 schreef vencodark het volgende:[..]
Die man leek een schaduw van zichzelf.
Deed gewoon een beetje zeer hem zo te zien, al heb ik natuurlijk wel vaker foto’s gezien en verhalen gehoord.
Hij was er, maar mistte zijn aanwezigheid. Totaal geen ziel ofzo.
David, Matt en Jennifer hadden duidelijk de meeste aandacht.
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Een artikel op Esquire over de reunie, het gebrek een inhoud, waarom het nooit meer zal gebeuren en Matthew Perry...
Raakt veel van de zaken die hier in dit topic ook zijn opgevallen:
Friends: The Reunion Happened. And It's Clear They'll Never Do It Again.The one where you wonder why any of this is happening.Friends: The Reunion, the multi-million-dollar HBO Max not-new-episode of the massive and beloved NBC sitcom, raises a lot of big questions, not through what it explores but by what it ignores. You’re going to do some thinking here, about the nature of friendship, about the passage of time, but mostly, about why any of this is happening.
And you will start right away: five seconds in, text in the show’s iconic font informs us that since the finale, the six main cast members have only been in the same room once. You think wow, and then you think wait. Once? Since 2003? There are circles of friends from jobs I’ve long forgotten, people I don’t think about all that often, who I can rely on seeing at a wedding once a year. The six people who went through this experience together, the only six people who understand what it was like to be that famous in that media ecosystem, haven’t all seen each other but once in 17 years? How? Why?
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In one of the few present-day Matthew Perry moments, he says “I felt like I was going to die if the studio audience didn’t laugh. And that’s not healthy for sure, but if I said a line and they didn’t laugh, I would sweat and just go into convulsions.” Kudrow says she didn’t know he was going through that, and he says, “Yes. Every night.” A perfect opening to talk about something real and honest and serious, so of course we go right into a segment about how much the audience screamed when Monica woke up in bed with Chandler.
It is impossible not to notice what we are being asked not to notice. Perry is frequently framed out of group shots. He is often hidden behind other cast members’ heads, and in at least one significant group scene, he’s not there at all.
According to unnamed sources quoted in The Sun, the explanation for some noticeably slurred speech is that Perry had a dental procedure on the day of the reunion, which opens up more questions, like: if whole CBS sitcoms can be scuttled to make way for the first season of Friends, can’t a root canal or a reunion special get pushed a couple weeks? If a cast member was so fragile at the peak of the show that he fell apart when a joke wouldn’t land, why put him on camera now, in this condition, in this vicious social media landscape? I want to believe the best, I want a very talented and much-loved actor to get and be and stay healthy, and one cannot really address the speculation without implicitly speculating oneself, which I will not do. I just hope he’s okay.