David Schwimmer reveals ‘genuinely frightening’ moment Friends co-star was rushed to hospital
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David Schwimmer has opened up about the ‘genuinely frightening’ moment that Matt LeBlanc was rushed to hospital while filming Friends. The iconic series aired for 10 seasons between 1994 and 2004, and turned the cast – also made up of Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox – into household names.
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The 58-year-old is set to return to our screens in the second season of Hulu’s scare-fest, Goosebumps, but shared that the terrifying screen moments are nothing compared to a moment he was worried for his colleague’s safety. ‘During the live taping of the show, [Matt] is supposed to do a kind of a pratfall, and he actually dislocated his shoulder,’ he revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, discussing the filming of beloved season three episode The One Where No One’s Ready.
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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.’. David recalled ‘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.
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‘That was scary.’. The episode aired in September, 1996, and saw Ross (David) rushing the gang to get ready for an important event at the museum, but they all had individual issues to worth through. Matt’s Joey spent much of the instalment battling with Chandler over who could sit in Monica’s chair – leading to the legendary moment where he wore all of his pal’s clothes out of spite.
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