Anna Faris wishes she’d had the chance to get to know Matthew Perry better when he guest-starred on the final season of Friends in 2004.
Matthew was found dead in his hot tub in October 2023 at the age of just 54, after suffering a ketamine overdose following years of battling addiction.
On Friends, Anna played a pregnant woman named Erica whose baby is adopted by Matthew’s character, Chandler, and his wife Monica, played by Courteney Cox.
Now, Anna has enthusiastically shared how happy she was to work with him, although she admitted she regrets having only had “brief interactions” with him.
“It was an honor and he was an amazing person,” The House Bunny actress, 47, said in a new interview with People.
Anna Faris wishes she’d had the chance to get to know Matthew Perry better when he guest-starred on the final season of Friends in 2004.
“I’d like to get to know him better. It seems a little forward to talk too much about someone I had a brief interaction with, but it was wonderful and I’m honored to be a part of the show.”
Matthew apparently suggested Anna for the role of Erica after seeing her in Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film Lost In Translation, starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.
“That’s what I understood at the time,” Anna said. “He told me he’d seen me in Lost in Translation and thought I was good.”
Anna appeared in Lost In Translation as a ditzy movie star who was rumoured to be based on Cameron Diaz, although Sofia has denied the speculation.
Erica, Anna’s character on Friends, is an equally ditzy woman who isn’t sure which of her last two exes is the father of her baby, despite the fact that she only had vaginal sex with one of them.
Looking back on her time on the show, Anna recalls: “I worked mainly with Courteney and Matthew, and they were amazing to me. They were so kind.”
She confessed that she was nervous about the job, sharing, “I mean, it was a very intimidating idea. I mean, giving birth on Friends. Friends? The final season?”
Matthew and Courteney starred on Friends for 10 seasons alongside Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc.
Matthew was found dead in his hot tub in October 2023 at the age of just 54, having overdosed on ketamine following years of battling addiction; pictured here in 2016.
Now, Anna has enthusiastically shared how pleased she was to work with him, although she admitted she regrets only having “brief interactions” with him; pictured this week.
On Friends, Anna played a pregnant woman named Erica whose baby is adopted by Matthew’s character, Chandler, and his wife Monica, played by Courteney Cox.
Erica is a sweet, airheaded woman who isn’t sure which of her last two exes is the father of her baby, even though she only had vaginal sex with one of them.
Matthew apparently suggested Anna for the role of Erica after seeing her in Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film Lost In Translation (pictured), starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.
Anna explained that while she was filming the final season, the cast “was very excited because they were wrapping things up. It was very sentimental.”
Anna candidly revealed, ‘At the same time, I felt like, ‘Okay, I should probably go back to my dressing room during this group hug.’
Despite the positive experience she had on set, Anna revealed that her royalty payments are somewhat lower than one might expect.
“They don’t rerun the last season very much because I think I get a nine-cent check every, you know, four months!” he joked.
