Topics: Friends, Jennifer Aniston, US News, Film and TV
Jennifer Aniston has opened up about a thing that one of her co-stars on Friends was not keen on.
When it comes to filming shows, there are a lot of things which need to be properly managed to ensure that a recording goes smoothly.
With a set, this includes a huge amount of technical set up, including making sure the sound and lighting are all properly, otherwise it will all have been for nothing!
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But Jennifer Aniston revealed that there was one aspect of life on set that her co-star was not quite so keen on.
While many sets will be closed, for a TV show like Friends, it makes sense to record in front of a live audience.
Particularly with comedy, this allows the cast and crew to get a better feel for how the jokes are landing, and also can make the show feel more organic rather than using a laugh track.
But not everyone is a fan of this way of doing things, as Aniston revealed about her Friends co-star, Lisa Kudrow.
While some people find it helpful to have the audience there to test the rhythm of the jokes, Kudrow was less than convinced.
In an interview with Quinta Brunson for Variety series, Actors on Actors, Aniston said: “Lisa Kudrow, by the way, hated when the audience laughed,”
“She’d be like, ‘I’m not done! It’s not that funny!’”
Aniston went on to talk about how the cast are still very much still friends years after the show wrapped.
She said: “The fact that it’s had this long, wonderful life and it still means a lot to people is one of the greatest gifts I think all five of us — all six of us — we never could imagine.
“And we see each other. I talked on FaceTime with Court[eney Cox] last night for an hour, and Lisa and the boys, and we just have a really — it’s a family forever.”
People took to the comments to share their thoughts on the laughing during recording.
One wrote: "On the one hand, I totally get it. It can be distracting and ruin a take as much as enhance it.
"On the other, she was a Groundling so she should have been used to awful audiences."
Another posted: "I can’t watch anything with a laugh track, and I’ve tried. It’s just too annoying, fake, and forced."
One person made a rather ghoulish observation about laugh tracks in general, writing: "Just think how long ago some of those laugh tracks were recorded.
"You're listening to dead people laugh at .... Whatever they were really laughing about."
