Life. Changed.
1. Lisa Kudrow was originally cast as Roz in Frasier, but the casting directors changed their minds and fired her shortly before it aired. Which led her to land the role of Phoebe in Friends. YAY.
2. But before Lisa landed the part, Ellen DeGeneres was offered Phoebe, although she turned it down.
3. We may now know it forever in our hearts as Friends, but it was almost called Insomnia Café, Friends like Us, Across The Hall, Once Upon A Time In The West Village or Six of One.
4. Courteney Cox was originally cast as Rachel but she insisted she should be Monica, while Two and a Half Men's Jon Cryer was offered Chandler's role.
5. Another Friends fact – Marcel the monkey is actually a female and her name is Katie.
6. Phoebe and Chandler were originally supposed to be supporting characters not part of the main six.
7. While Monica and Joey were originally supposed to be the main romance story in the show.
8. R.E.M's “Shiny Happy People” was used in the pilot and was meant to be the theme tune of the show, not the now infamous “I'll Be There For You” (which was was co-written by Friends producers David Crane and Marta Kauffman).
9. In the first couple of episodes, Monica and Rachel's apartment number was number 5. This was changed in later episodes to number 20 because the producers noted that 5 corresponded to an apartment on a lower floor. Joey and Chandler's was changed to number 19 in turn.
10. Gunther was not originally a speaking part – the actor, James Michael Tyler, bagged the role as an extra because he worked in a coffee shop and knew how to work an espresso machine.
11. During the first season of the show, each cast member earned $22,500 per episode. By the end of the series they each made a $1 million an episode.
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