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Hollywood star says she had to make plea during ‘harrowing’ experience on Friends-Josie Copson-Entertainment – Metro
She also called one experience ‘alarming’.
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The Friends cast visited London for a special episode (Picture: NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
Olivia Williams had a cameo in an iconic episode of Friends but has now described the experience as ‘harrowing’.
The 55-year-old actress was cast in a small role for the sitcom which ran for 10 years before the finale aired in May 2004 and starred Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc in the main roles.
When Ross Geller (David) married Brit Emily Waltham (Helen Baxendale) the cast flew over from New York to London to film a special (without Phoebe Buffay, played by actress Lisa who was too heavily pregnant to fly) and Olivia starred as a flirty bridesmaid, who has a fling with Joey Tribbiani (Matt).
Although Olivia’s scenes seemed fun, she remembers the behind-the-scenes as different. While filming the 1998 episodes, she claims a few experiences were ‘alarming’.
‘I was taken to the studio in a shared car with a wonderful actress whose character, I think, was called “Old Woman”,’ she explained.
Olivia Williams’s character had a fling with Joey in Friends (Picture: NBC)
Olivia has candidly recalled her Friends experience (Picture: Michael Tran/FilmMagic)
‘At one point, a producer, who shall remain nameless, just yelled at her: “You’re not funny!” And she didn’t come back the next day. So that was alarming.’
Olivia claimed to the Independent, that she had to ask to keep her eyebrow shape.
‘Friends was a brand, and you had to fit the brand. You go into hair and make-up and you’re told, “There’s a look here, this is what we do”.’
She recalls pleading: ‘Please don’t take my eyebrows off, I might need them in another job!’
‘That’s the sense in which it was harrowing,’ Olivia concluded.
The Friends cast flew to London for the special (Picture: NBC)
Olivia played Camilla Parker Bowles and Dominic West was Prince Charles in The Crown (Picture: PA)
During the interview, Olivia also discussed the ‘great fun’ she had working on The Crown in which she played Queen Camilla, particularly enjoying being taken to stately homes wearing a ‘fabulous’ wig.
However, she has admitted to having some ‘queasy moments’ about covering the stories of real people.
‘I did have queasy moments at the time about whether the things we were depicting would make life more difficult or less difficult for people whose privacy has been so horribly intruded upon, but I think, by any metric, The Crown was empathetic – while telling the story as drama,’ she shared.
Speaking to Metro.co.uk at its time of release, she said that the royal family shouldn’t fear the show.
Olivia’s first prominent role was as Jane Fairfax in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. She’s starred in films The Postman, Rushmore, The Sixth Sense, and Peter Pan.
Friends is available to watch on Netflix.
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