Friends episode “The One After the Superbowl,” the show creators told
In crafting the episode,
Friends cocreator David Crane said, “We never, over the course of doing the show, wrote for a specific guest. We came up with stories we thought were funny and put it out to our casting to find the best people. But for this episode, we couldn’t just go with a really good actor. We needed names.” And the name for Chandler s middle school classmate turned love interest was Julia Roberts.
Said executive producer Kevin Bright, “Do you know the story of how we got her? Matthew [Perry] asked her to be on the show. She wrote back to him, ‘Write me a paper on quantum physics, and I’ll do it.’ My understanding is that Matthew went away and wrote a paper and faxed it to her the next day.”
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Kevin Bright joined others in talking to the Hollywood Reporter in honor of the 25th anniversary of the show’s “The One After the Superbowl” episode.
“Do you know the story of how we got [Julia Roberts]? Matthew [Perry, one of the stars] asked her to be on the show,” Bright said. “She wrote back to him, ‘Write me a paper on quantum physics and I’ll do it.’ My understanding is that Matthew went away and wrote a paper and faxed it to her the next day.”