Cliff Notes – David Schwimmer explains U-turn to Friends after not the greatest response
- David Schwimmer expressed that hearing the Friends theme tune triggered negative feelings for him, as he had heard it extensively during and after the show’s run.
- His perception changed positively when his children discovered the series, leading him to appreciate the show and its music anew.
- Courteney Cox, another cast member, revealed her poor memory of filming the series and shared that the cast did not enjoy filming the iconic fountain scene in the opening credits.
David Schwimmer explains U-turn to Friends after not ‘the greatest response’
David Schwimmer has revealed why his perception of Friends has changed since having children (Picture: Marleen Moise/Getty Images)
David Schwimmer has revealed that he is somewhat triggered by the Friends theme tune, after hearing it play for decades.
The actor, 58, was a key member of the Friends cast, playing the dorky palaeontologist, Ross Geller.
The series may have ended in 2004, but it has earned generations of fans after appearing on a variety of streaming platforms for decades since its release.
The actor revealed in a new interview that the show may have ended 21 years ago, but he still doesn’t watch the show and tries to avoid the theme tune, I’ll Be There For You by The Rembrants.
‘I never watched the show after we finished it. For me, it’s like, I did it, I’m moving on. I don’t go back,’ he said on David Walliams and Matt Lucas on their podcast Making A Scene.
‘I’ll be really honest…there was a time for quite a while where just hearing the theme song would really… uhhhh. I just had that reaction. I had just heard it so many times.
‘Any time you would go on a talk show or interview, that would be your intro song. I didn’t have the greatest response to it for a period of time.
He then revealed that things changed for the better when his children discovered the series, and he had a u-turn on this negative opinion.
‘And then, at about aged nine, my kid discovered it and started watching it. And I’d be making breakfast or whatever and I’d hear my kid’s laughter,’ he said.
‘My whole relationship to that song, and to the show, changed again.’
The series stars David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani (Picture: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
But David isn’t the only Friends cast member to disappoint fans, Courteney Cox has previously revealed that she couldn’t remember filming much of the show.
While on The Today Show, the star confessed: ‘I should’ve watched all 10 seasons because when I did the reunion and was asked questions, I was like, “I don’t remember being there”… Yeah, I don’t remember filming so many episodes.’
‘I see it on TV sometimes and I stop and go, “Oh my God, I don’t remember this at all.” But it’s so funny.’
She added that she’d always had a bad memory: ‘It’s really basic; I don’t remember any trauma in my childhood, but I have, like, three memories. I don’t know. I don’t know why.’
The actress also put another dampener on the theme tune by revealing that the cast didn’t like filming the famous fountain scene in the intro to the show.
The cast h(Picture: Reisig & Taylor/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
While on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen asked whose idea it was to have the cast dance around in the water, Courteney replied: ‘Well, it definitely wasn’t mine. We were in that fountain for a long time.
‘Somebody thought that would just be really fun, and let me tell you what happens – it’s not fun to be dancing in a fountain for hours and hours.’
She then continued: ‘I remember Matthew Perry saying at one point, and we didn’t know each other that well at that point. But I remember, and this is so Matthew, but he was like, “Can’t remember a time that I wasn’t in this fountain.”‘
‘Literally, we were just like, “How much longer are we going to pretend to love dancing in water?” Courteney joked.