Friends' Marathon Episodes: Lisa Kudrow's Insider Tale

0:00On April 9th, Lisa Kuzro just dropped some real talk on how they filmed friends' episodes. It wasn't your quick sitcom, grind one episode meant a full week of rehearsals, like prepping a stage play. Then the live audience rolled in around day four or five, and they shot the whole thing right there. Riders kept tweaking jokes on the fly for maximum laughs, with plenty of retakes to nail it. Most half-hour shows wrap in two to three hours' tops, but friends? They pushed six hours or longer per episode, turning it into a marathon session. Kuzro was only 30 or 31 when the show kicked off in 1994. She got pregnant during season four, they even wrote it in as her character surrogating for her brother. Shooting dragged till two o'clock in the morning, leaving her beyond exhausted, especially postpartum into season five. The interviewers were straight shot, wondering how that flew with unions and labor rules. Kuzro called it admirable hustle no doubt. That ten-season run built an iconic cast, with Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, David

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