Reimagining “Friends” also required recreating the familiar set of Monica’s apartment, which is only second to iconic status as Central Perk. Those with particularly keen hearing my recognize that Jay-Z himself is the voice of Richard, Monica’s ex, who leaves the voice mail message in the video. I’m so glad that I got all the actors in those parts.” We did rehearsals and it’s just a strange sell, but I really like the way it came together. It was really fun to watch and they really started tearing into it. He did sort of a deadpan Chandler and it just killed me. That would be amazing, and also Lakeith as Chandler is just a totally different take, but he’s actually just such a strong actor. To me, every piece of casting made me laugh, I love to see Rel as Joey. To see Issa as Rachel, and Tessa as Monica, and Tiffany as Phoebe, I don’t know.
“These are such indelible characters, and part of the reason I think people are responding to the video is because that was such an iconic show,” Yang said. We used to sit down and have dinners and talk about when I was developing ‘Master of None’ with Aziz and he was developing his show.”Īfter that, everyone else fell into place: Tessa Thompson (“Dear White People,” “Creed,” “Westworld”), Lakeith Stanfield (“Atlanta,” “Get Out”), Lil Rel Howery (“Get Out”), Issa Rae (“Insecure”), and Tiffany Haddish.Īssigning each person to play each of the “Friends” was also crucial. Jerrod and I have been friends for a long time.
He’s just one of the most charismatic people in the world to me. Jay and I both wanted Jerrod Carmichael from the start. I wanted just the best, brightest, funniest actors out there,” he said. “It is unbelievable how many people we got from literally just the first treatment I wrote up. Yang knew he needed an equally strong cast that evoked the same recognition.
In the original “Friends” ensemble, each person carries their own weight when it comes to personality and comedy. Watch the video below and then read on for how it all came together. It was just how overwhelming it was in culture.” Much less, a comedy, you know? That was one of the reasons I picked it. It’s just this thing that dominated culture in such a way that it’s difficult for a show to have done since. I’ve met Marta Kauffman, who’s one of the creators and she’s super, super sweet. “I’d have friends who were obsessed with it. “I’ve seen every episode of ‘Seinfeld,’ but it was impossible not to be affected by ‘Friends.’ It was impossible to not accidentally catch an episode,” he said. Oddly enough, Yang was more of a fan of “Seinfeld” than he was of “Friends.” That’s sort of just the jumping-off point for the whole thing.” Part of what this film conveys is how far we’ve come as a culture in terms of representation and how far we still have to go. That’s why it was really important for us to just do a shot-for-shot remake of that episode. But there’s something powerful about the real material. ‘Friends’ was not a racist show by any means. We just used the actual clips and I still remember how powerful it was to see those actual clips and just remember how recently that was.
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Yang added, “One of the things, I think, that has been rattling around in my brain for a while is the conversation we had way back in Season 1 of ‘Master of None,’ when we did the ‘Indians on TV’ episode, where we started that episode with a montage of all of these films that had portrayed Indian characters as sort of racist caricatures and TV shows with characters making fun of them.
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