An unexpected feud? Matthew Perry‘s history with Keanu Reeves became a topic of conversation following the release of Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.
02.11.2022 - 17:05 / usmagazine.com
Could he be any more successful? Nearly two decades after Friends came to an end, Matthew Perry opened up about his residual income from the popular sitcom.
During an episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live, which was posted on Monday, October 31, host Andy Cohen asked Perry how much he still earns from Friends reruns.
“You talked with Diane Sawyer about the resurgence of Friends over the last few years, and it made me wonder. Are the Friends checks that come in today, would you characterize them as bountiful checks?” the Bravo producer, 54, asked. “Or would you say it’s a trickle at this point?”
In response, the actor, 53, joked, “Well, yesterday I bought Iowa.” Perry noted that the checks are “not bad,” adding, “And they come in form of a text. ‘You just made this.’ And I go, ‘Oh, great.'”
The Massachusetts native rose to stardom after bringing Chandler Bing to life on Friends. The sitcom, which ran on NBC from 1994 to 2004, also starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer.
Earlier this month, the 17 Again star reflected on his time playing Chandler amid his battle with addiction.
“You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season — when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills,” he wrote in his memoir, Friends, Lovers & The Big Terrible Thing. “Compare … how I look between the final episode of season six and the first of season seven — the Chandler-Monica proposal episodes.”
Perry continued: “I’m wearing the same clothes in the final episode of six and the first of seven [it’s supposed to be the same night], but I must have lost fifty pounds in the off-season.”
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