David Schwimmer recalls ‘frightening moment’ Friends co-star was rushed to hospital during filming
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‘He went totally white, and he stood up, and I could see his shoulder was out,’ said ‘Goosebumps’ actor. David Schwimmer has recounted a “genuinely terrifying” moment while shooting an episode of Friends when his co-star Matt LeBlanc was injured and rushed to hospital.
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The Friends star rose to fame on the much-loved Nineties sitcom alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and LeBlanc. Speaking in a new interview, Schwimmer recalled that during a live taping of the show, LeBlanc’s character Joey was supposed to pretend to fall, but instead the actor accidentally dislocated his shoulder.
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“He went totally white, and he stood up, and I could see his shoulder was out. He looked like he was going to pass out.”. Schwimmer remembered “immediately turning to the camera like, ‘Cut, cut, cut’”. “That was genuinely frightening. You could see how badly hurt he was. And we had to stop filming that night, obviously, and he went to hospital,” the actor said. “That was scary.”.
The actor has a starring role in the forthcoming second season of Disney+ and Hulu’s horror anthology revival Goosebumps, which will mark Schwimmer’s first time in a horror-comedy. The Madagascar actor recently revealed a brutal decision he had to make during his early career when he turned down a role in Barry Sonnenfeld and Steven Spielberg’s Men in Black, because he had already signed up to direct a film for Miramax.
