Fans of Friends will be pleased to know they still have a friend in Lisa Kudrow, who played the iconic Phoebe Buffay. She just issued a plea to the new Warner Bros. owners to keep the lot where the show was filmed.
Lisa Kudrow hopes the Friends lot will be preserved
Speaking to Architectural Digest for its Love Letters to LA series, Lisa toured around the studio lot where Friends was filmed. Although set in New York, the hit series was filmed at a lot in Burbank, Los Angeles, across all 10 seasons.
During her visit, Lisa passed by the famous fountain where the opening credits of the sitcom were filmed. She also explained how the set moved from Stage 5 to the larger Stage 24 after the first season’s success.
“We were on Stage 5, which was a great small sound stage right next to where ER was shooting. So we’d hang out with them a lot,” she said of Season 1. “[Then] we moved to a bigger soundstage so we could have a 400-person audience. That was Stage 24, and that’s where we were the full 10 years.”
Now, three decades on, Lisa is keen for the lot to be preserved, regardless of who owns it, following the Warner Bros. acquisition. “Ownership changes all the time, and you don’t know what’s going to happen,” she said.
Lisa continued: “I think most people really hope whatever happens next is that this studio lot is preserved as is.”
“Whoever buys it, you don’t need to change anything!” she added.
Although the actual Friends set is no longer on the lot, fans (us included) can still enjoy the nostalgia on a Warner Bros. Studio Tour. The tour includes a stop at the Friends Boutique, offering an array of merchandise, and the Central Perk Café.
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