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Jami Ganz

Matthew Perry shares clever way he ‘wooed’ Julia Roberts to appear on ‘Friends’

Here’s the one where Matthew Perry landed Julia Roberts.

The “Friends” star is sharing the clever way he persuaded Julia Roberts to be in a 1996 episode called “The One After the Super Bowl, Part 2.”

Roberts, who had already been offered the post-Super Bowl role, “would only do the show if she could be in my storyline,” Perry wrote in an excerpt published by British newspaper The Times. He “had to woo” the Oscar winner, too, he explains in his “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” memoir.

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