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Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Emily St. Martin

Aisha Tyler says fans still call her 'Black girl from 'Friends''

Aisha Tyler, who played the professor at the center of a steamy paleontology love triangle on "Friends," is unearthing the reality of joining the "biggest show on television."

The 52-year-old actor, who played Charlie Wheeler, the love interest of Matt LeBlanc's Joey Tribbiani then David Schwimmer's Ross Geller, recently spoke with Entertainment Tonight ahead of the 20th anniversary of her appearing on the show.

And she revealed she was actually "petrified" to take on the role.

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