‘Friends’ star David Schwimmer recalls ‘scary’ moment during live taping in which co-star hospitalized
David Schwimmer recalled a “truly terrifying” moment while filming live hit show “Friends”.
Schwimmer, now 58, revealed the medical emergency that sent his co-star, Matt LeBlanc, to the hospital.
“During the recording of the live show, [Matt LeBlanc] he was supposed to take some kind of fall and he actually dislocated his shoulder,” Schwimmer said Entertainment Weekly. “He went completely pale, he stood up and I could see his shoulder was out. He looked like he was going to pass out.”
He recalled how he “immediately turned to the camera like, ‘Cut, cut, cut.’ That was really scary,” the actor said. “You could see how badly he was hurt. And we had to stop filming that night, obviously, and he went to the hospital.”
“That was terrifying,” he stressed.
In a new interview, David Schwimmer recalled an injury on set that landed his co-star in the hospital. (NBC)
LeBlanc’s on-set injury was first revealed during HBO Max’s “Friends” reunion. The cast was filming “The One Where No One’s Ready” when LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder. In the episode, LeBlanc’s character Joey fought with Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing for a chair in the apartment while he waited for the girls to get ready.
He successfully recorded a clip of him jumping on the chair three times, but they decided to shoot a fourth clip.
I started to jump over the coffee table and somehow I tripped, he explained. “My legs went up in the air and my shoulder came out of its socket.”
LeBlanc’s injury was eventually credited to “The One With the Jam.”
“We put it in the series and then we waited until he recovered to go back and shoot the end of ‘The One Where No One’s Ready,'” said executive producer Kevin Bright. “What started out as the simplest episode of ‘Friends’ ended up taking the longest to shoot.”
Matt LeBlanc played Joey in the series “Friends”, which first aired in 1994. (Jon Ragel)
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Schwimmer and LeBlanc starred together in “Friends.” Jennifer AnistonLisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox and the late Matthew Perry. Each member of the cast was between 25 and 31 years old when she filmed the first season of the series.
The group has remained close over the years, especially in the following year Perry’s death. The actor died on October 28, 2023 from “acute effects of ketamine” and subsequent drowning, Fox News Digital previously confirmed.
The sitcom, which premiered on September 22, 1994, followed the story of six friends living in New York. “Friends” became an instant hit and lasted a total of 10 seasons.
From left to right, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry shoot a scene for “Friends.” (Getty Images)
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During an “Actors About Actors” conversation in June, Aniston reflected on the day “Friends” premiered.
“It’s so weird to even think that it’s 30 years old, because it actually just was—I remember the day it was supposed to premiere, on television, on NBC,” Aniston explained.
“Me and Matthew Perry were having lunch somewhere and we knew Lisa was dying her hair. So we ran into the hair salon and I snuck up and she was in the sink… and I took the nozzle and started washing her hair from the guy who that’s what she was supposed to be doing and she definitely got out of control, and that was an accident.”
“Friends” was shown for 10 seasons. (NBC)
“But the excitement we had, and it seems like it was just yesterday,” she added. “The fact that he had such a long, wonderful life, and that he still means so much to people, is one of the greatest gifts, I think, that all six of us could ever — could never have imagined.”
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