Matt LeBlanc: – reveals the secret of the "friends" of the scenes

You probably remember the very popular band of friends of the legendary series who won the TV victory from 1994 to 2004. The six friends Ross, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, Chandler and Monica in "Friends" have enjoyed instant success and went on television screens. World more than a decade.

In total, 236 episodes of the series have been made and, since the release of the last episode in 2004, new secrets have appeared on the television set and revelations of the series' recording..

Today, one of the actors of the popular series, Matt LeBlanc (51) – who played the role of Joey Tribbiani, a bit silly and naive – reveals some amusing details drawn from the. recording of the famous humorous series.

– did not like the monkey

In a recent interview with host Jimmy Kimmel, the 51-year-old tells his colleague David Schwimmer (52) the true relationship of his character with the monkey "Marcel", who played an important role for this character for several seasons.

– I liked the monkey. I love animals and the monkey was great. Schwimmer, on the other hand, did not like the monkey so much. He's the one who worked the most with that, he only saw "again with the monkey?" But for me it was good, said the actor in the interview.

LeBlanc could also offer an amusing story from the recording, where everything has not happened as it should with the wild monkey. "Marcel" disappeared lighting and sound systems under the roof.

– He just disappeared in the darkness of the scene. So all the actors only: "Okay, see you later, stay in my room," LeBlanc jokes, who can also reveal that the monkey was found half an hour later.

In the series, Ross's slightly nerdy character adopted a monkey named "Marcel", which means that Schwimmer had to work a lot with the little animal.

LeBlanc also reveals another fascinating illumination on perhaps the most talked about monkey in the history of television.

– It was really a girl. She was Katie, reveals the actor.

Deleted the wedding scene

However, this is not the first time that unknown details emerge from the popular series.

In 2017, "Friends" actors Jane Sibbett and Jessica Hecht, who perform lesbian couple Carol and Susan, revealed that the production had to remove a scene in 1996 from the second season of the series.

The creators of the series wanted to show a lesbian wedding in the episode "One with the lesbian marriage", but then it became a thug, both could reveal.

Carol was the ex-wife of Ross and married Susan in the episode. The Netherlands was the first country in the world to equate same-sex marriage with heterosexual marriage in April 2001. The reactions did not, therefore, wait for them.

Wedding scenes have been banned in several countries and in parts of the US states of Texas and Ohio, said Sibbet and Hecht.

– It was the first lesbian wedding to be broadcast on television. It was blocked in several territories, but it was finally settled. This has attracted a lot of press attention and we have won awards for this part of the scenario, Sibbett said in 2017.