Lisa Kudrow thanks this friend for helping her overcome her difficulties by playing Phoebe

While Lisa Kudrow nailed her role as Phoebe Buffay on friendsPlaying the character was not easy for her. So his co-star Matt LeBlanc stepped up to help.

The 56-year-old star commented on a hike with Kevin Nealon for an episode of his YouTube Web series Hiking with Kevin, which was posted Thursday. Kudrow, a graduate of prestigious Vassar College, where she specialized in biology, has made herself known as an actress with her popular, eccentric and somewhat ditzy role on friends, aired for 10 seasons until 2004.

"I had played stupid girls, of course, but it was not really me," Kudrow told Nealon. "I feel as though, I have them trapped.At the time of the audition, I was the only one able to handle the hearing process and that 's how I got it. I got, I think, so I had to work hard to be Phoebe, you know. "

After a few years, LeBlanc, who played Joey Tribbiani in the series, noticed that something was wrong and gave Kudrow a necessary encouragement speech.

"And then, like in the third season, I struggled so much," she said. "And Leblanc said:" What's going on with you? "And I said," I can not, I do not think I have it, I mean, I do not know what I'm doing. "And he said," You're her, relax, you have it. You play this character for three years. You work too much. That's your problem. You do not have to work that way. difficult, relax. He was right."

Kudrow also confessed that she had never watched an episode of friends.

"I should," she said. "I hear that it's good."