Lisa Kudrow has accused the male writers of Friends of subjecting the cast to cruel insults and openly discussing sexual fantasies about her female co-stars. The 62-year-old actress, who played the free-spirited Phoebe Buffay across the show's 10-season run, made the claims in an interview with The Times of London published last week. She described the writers' room as a place of 'mean stuff' and 'brutal' pressure during the making of the NBC sitcom.
According to Kudrow, the writing staff, which was mostly men, would reprimand the cast harshly if lines were forgotten or jokes failed to land in front of a live studio audience of 400. She also detailed how the male writers would stay up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox.
