There’s a famous story about the cast of Friends taking a trip to Las Vegas ahead of the sitcom’s premiere in 1994, with legendary TV producer James Burrows predicting it would be the last time they’d ever be anonymous in public. That turned out to be true, and even over 30 years later, Lisa Kudrow and the rest of the gang get recognized by fans wherever they go. Sometimes, however, people can’t place exactly where they know the actors from, and Kudrow revealed probably the wildest case of mistaken identity I’ve ever heard.
Lisa Kudrow — who played the hilariously off-beat Phoebe Buffay on Friends and recently wrapped the third and final season of her meta-comedy The Comeback — participated in a roundtable with other comedic actresses for THR. They were asked about bizarre fan interactions. She had quite a doozy, too, telling the others: