The two scenes that Matthew Perry flatly refused to film in Friends because he thought it would cause Chandler to lose popularity among the public.
Throughout the 10 seasons of Friends we experienced a multitude of stories between all the characters, highlighting good old Chandler played by Matthew Perry.
But many of these stories seem to have gone too far, to the point that Matthew Perry himself refused to film them, so they definitely disappeared from the script.
One of these stories, It was one in which Chandler cheated on Monica, in a scene that, fortunately, was not filmed, but was in the script.
This was revealed by Lisa Cash, noting that “they told me that Perry went to the writers and told them that the public would never forgive him for cheating on Monica, and he was probably right. “That would have possibly changed the course of the show and his character.”
Another of the scenes that appeared in the script and that Matthew Perry flatly refused to film, so it was finally discarded, It was the time when Chandler was going to go to a male striptease place.
This was revealed by Matthew Perry himself in an interview in which he noted that “there was a story in Friends in which Chandler went to a male striptease place because he really liked sandwiches. And I called and said: ‘Let’s not do this.'” .
The fact that an actor could throw away a script already written and approved by the producers of Friendsmakes us see the importance of Matthew Perry with his character in the series throughout all the seasons.