In the list of classic American dramas, there must be a place for "Friends", and even the first place in the minds of many people.
It is a real divine drama, occupying the highest position of Douban's 9.6~9.8 rating, and no one has surpassed it so far.
This drama takes the story of 3 men and 3 women "living together" as the main line, telling the various growth experiences of Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courteney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBron), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Humer) in their youth, with happiness and troubles.
Since the finale of the tenth season of "Friends" in 2003, the 6 leading actors in the play have reached middle age, and their respective life destinies and star paths are different. Last year, the six leading actors of "Friends" reunited to record a special program, which became a hot topic and made fans around the world as excited as if it were a New Year.
But many people don't know that just before the reunion was recorded, "Chandler" actor Matthew Perry was still in a bad state:
He took a bite of a slice of toast coated with peanut butter, lost his teeth in his mouth, and had to see a dentist urgently, have all his teeth extracted and fitted with dental implants.
This also led to a little slurred speech in the later recorded program.
Matthew Perry, 53 years old this year, was originally handsome and humorous and full of charm, had countless fans in "Friends", and also dated actresses like Julia Roberts, but he contracted drug addiction when he became popular, and his physical and mental love career has been seriously affected since then.
Recently, he published an autobiography called "Friends, Lovers and the Most Terrifying Things", which exposed the drug addiction and serious health problems that afflicted him, and also showed a popular star who was originally prosperous and made his own good life go downhill.
Even, Matthew Perry almost died.
In his autobiography, he recalled his near-death experience, he began to drink heavily at a young age, and later became addicted to drugs due to a jet skiing accident.
Because of substance abuse, which caused his colon to rupture in 2018, the then 49-year-old was in a coma for two weeks and his family was told he had only a 2 percent chance of surviving. He was placed on ECMO (artificial lungs) along with four other people in the hospital, the other four did not survive, he survived, but then he had to stay in the hospital with a colostomy pocket for 9 months.
Over the years, Perry has attended 6,000 AA drinking ceremonies, made 15 trips to rehab centers, and rehabilitated 65 times, spending millions of dollars to stay awake and alive. He also had 14 surgeries – his most recent was in January 2022.
During the pandemic, Perry feigned pain at a rehabilitation center in Switzerland, then was given 1,800 milligrams of a certain opioid a day and injected daily with anesthetics. But then he underwent surgery there and was injected with propofol.
He woke up 11 hours later at another hospital and was told that propofol had stopped his heart for 5 minutes. During a lengthy CPR, eight of his ribs were broken, but doctors refused to give him previous medicines after that.
One day, he heard that he could get the medicine he wanted in the United States, so he spent $175,000 (about 1.275 million yuan) on a private jet to return to the United States from Switzerland, only to be told that he could not get such a large dose of drugs, and he immediately spent the same $175,000 that night to return to Switzerland by private plane again.
He was so crazy about medicine that he spent about 2.6 million yuan on these two private jets alone.
Here's an interjection: although the 6 leading actors in "Friends" are no longer top stars, the money has never been less.
Matthew Perry revealed in his autobiography that when he filmed "Friends", he earned more than $1.1 million (about 8 million yuan) a week on the series.
After so many years, "Friends" has been a top drama, and the 6 leading actors can still earn $20 million in income every year by relying on the replay of the series. In addition, during the filming of last year's reunion show, the 6 leading actors can also get remuneration ranging from 3 million ~ 4 million US dollars (all over 20 million yuan).
Matthew Perry, born in 1969, belongs to the type that was expected to continue to become popular, but self-destructive future.
When he was young, he originally planned to be a professional tennis player, but because of premature failure, he ended his tennis dream, coupled with the influence of his father, he began to participate in performances as a teenager, and guest starred in the classic American drama "Growing Pains" earlier than "Friends".
Chandler, who played Chandler in "Friends", and Joey's friendship is commendable, and they sat together in a very comfortable chair in the play during last year's reunion show.
Years later, two middle-aged men with gray hair reunited, and "Joey" sorted out clothes for "Chandler", a scene that made people teary.
Because of the success of "Friends", Matthew lived a worry-free life, but he became addicted to drugs. In June 1997, the media reported that he had become addicted to drugs due to alcoholism and drug treatment, and had entered a drug rehabilitation center. On February 27, 2001, Matthew underwent another rehabilitation and interrupted the filming for a while.
Later he said: "I am lucky to have enough money, but if you don't have inner happiness and don't think about others first, you will live alone in a big house and live a lonely and miserable life." In 2011, Matthew went to rehab for the third time, but he told reporters that he did not have a relapse of drug addiction, but only prevented it.
In 2013, Matthew also received a Rehabilitation Award from the National Office of Drug Control Policy in the United States. But now it seems that he has not completely escaped from it.
In 2007, Matthew was nominated for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries/TV Movie at the 64th Golden Globe Awards for his role in "Blood Teacher". From 2012 to 2013, he starred in "Life Rushes Forward" and "The Good Wife", and played lawyer Mike in the latter, and in 2017, in "Battle of the Proud Bones", he continued to play this role.
He also starred in "Born to Be Wronged", while also serving as a producer, screenwriter and starring role, but the show was cut in 2017. In 2017, he played the president's younger brother, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy in the American drama "The Kennedy Family: Fall".
Although in Friends, Chandler and Monica are married, in real life, Matthew is the only one of the six members who has not experienced marriage.
In the early years of starring in "Friends", big star Julia Roberts came to make a cameo, and the two had a short date, but then disappeared. Although he also has other girlfriends, he has never achieved positive results. Matthew believes that he has no womanhood, "as long as there is a girl who suits me, I will find some reason to mess things up".
Although in "Friends", Chandler and Monica are married, in real life, Matthew is the latest of the six members to enter marriage.
In the early years of starring in "Friends", big star Julia Roberts came to make a cameo, and the two had a short date, but then disappeared. Although he also has other girlfriends, he has never achieved positive results.
In November 2020, 51-year-old Matthew Perry successfully proposed to his 29-year-old girlfriend Molly Hurwitz, and he happily said that he was lucky to be with the best woman in the world.
Although Chandler in "Friends" is so cute and full of charm, attracting fans and fans, the real Matthew Perry ruined his star career with his own hands.
Do you remember Chandler in the play?
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