Lisa Kudrow discusses impression of Friends The Reunion: ‘A little bit mind-blowing’
Comedic actor Lisa Kudrow has returned to tv comedy within the second season of Feel Good, scorching on the heels of showing in Friends: The Reunion.
The reunion of the basic sitcom Friends forged turned a scorching matter on social media and noticed a surge in subscriptions for the present’s platform HBO Max.
Lisa Kudrow informed Reuters by way of Zoom she discovered it “a little bit mind-blowing because you don’t really fully get the impact that the show had on people internationally and the personal stories that you would hear about over the years. It’s really nice. I go to sleep now thinking ‘Ah, I did a good thing’.”
In the sequence Feel Good, which is getting into its second and ultimate season, Kudrow performs the mom of Mae, a non-binary comic who’s fighting the demons of her previous whereas making an attempt to maintain up a relationship with girlfriend George.
The first sequence was critically acclaimed and Mae Martin, who primarily based the sequence on her personal experiences, received two Royal Television Society awards for Best Writer – Comedy and likewise the Breakthrough Award.
“Once I was sent the script … I loved it. I loved every episode, I loved what it was about,” mentioned Lisa Kudrow.
However, her attachment to the venture meant that the Friends star must journey to the United Kingdom the place a lot of the sequence was shot in the course of the pandemic.
“I was anxious about it but then forgot it once I was there on their set with the COVID protocols. I felt perfectly safe,” Kudrow mentioned.
As the present is predicated on Mae Martin’s personal experiences, she suffered from quite a lot of anxiousness main as much as the launch of the primary sequence.
Martin mentioned she’s nonetheless a bit of apprehensive concerning the second season. “It was all such an unknown with series one. I had no idea how people would feel about it … last time I was just terrified about my parents watching it but now I know they love it, that’s a huge weight off so yeah I do feel a lot less freaked out.”
Feel Good Season 2 premiered right now on Netflix.
