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Brooke Shields Recalls Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ Gag: ‘You’d Be Canceled’ For Now

Brooke Shields on Monday recalled her appearance on “Friends” and the lengths she went to trying to win over the cast of the hit sitcom.

The actor and model — who played Erica, who stalked Matt LeBlanc’s Joey Tribbiani in a second-season episode in 1996 — said she even copied a gag that the late Matthew Perry (who played Chandler Bing) had the He usually shoots to try to connect with the stars of the show.

But she admitted the joke: “You can’t do it now, you’d be cancelled.” »

“You’re on such a well-oiled, successful show, and I was such a fan,” Shields said on ABC’s “The View” while promoting her new book “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old.”

“All I wanted was for them to like me. I just wanted to be funny, but I wasn’t in the group. They were very tight. They had all these inside jokes,” she explained.

Shields remembers noticing a recurring joke on set, particularly Perry’s, and thinking, “If I can make him laugh, it’s going to be so good.” »

The joke? Perry “would run and throw himself on the ground in front of a girl and pretend to look up her skirt,” she said.

“Again, you would be canceled today,” she admitted on “The View.”

Shields said she imitated Perry, but it almost didn’t pay off:

“I ran so fast from one end of the stage to the other, threw myself on the floor and pretended to look at his pant leg and everyone was silent. I’m on the floor and I’m like, “I’m just bad!” That’s how it is. I look like a crazy person! » I stood on the floor for what seemed like an hour, probably a second, and all of a sudden he started laughing and they all started laughing. And he said, “How did you know how to do that?” I said, “I just looked at you and I just wanted to say thank you for giving us such humor.” So that was really nice.

Perry died in October 2023 at the age of 54 following an accidental drug overdose.

Watch the full interview here:

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