That was a very valid, extremely difficult criticism which still… I get emotional about." I was unaware of that, which makes me feel stupid. "I was clearly part of systemic racism in our business. "I'll never make that mistake again," she continued.
And over the course of the last few years I've gotten to the point where I can say unfortunately yes, I am guilty of that." "The biggest one being that we did not have enough representation of Black people. " Friends has been criticized in a number of ways," she said. Kauffman also reiterated her regret about Friends' lack of diversity, a sentiment that recently led her to make a $4 million donation to Brandeis University's African and African American Studies department. I fired a guy on the spot for making a joke about a trans cameraperson. "It's very important to me that where we are is a safe place, a tolerant place, where there's no yelling. "I like very much to create an environment where we have a happy set and a happy crew," said Kauffman. Kauffman told the BBC that in the years since Friends aired, her approach has changed, and she's now more cognizant of issues like race and gender identity. "Pronouns were not yet something that I understood, so we didn't refer to that character as 'she.' That was a mistake." "We kept referring to as 'Chandler's father,' even though Chandler's father was trans," Kauffman said, according to the Huffington Post UK. Dark fan theories are sometimes interesting and can make fans question their own view of a character or show, but this particular Friends theory only hurts the show and one of its most beloved characters.In an upcoming interview on the BBC's The Conversation, Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman reveals she regrets the show's treatment of trans character Helena Handbasket (Kathleen Turner), who played one of Chandler's (Matthew Perry) parents. Friends spent 10 seasons building relatable characters and while the endings of some of them weren’t the best, Phoebe eventually got what she never had: a family, both with her friends and her husband Mike (Paul Rudd), and that dark fan theory feels disrespectful to not only Phoebe but the show in general. Kauffman has already shut the theory down calling it “terrible” and that “ someone needs a life”, and her disgust is quite understandable. To make it even darker and sadder, Phoebe would have then walked back to the park where she sleeps in front of a fountain and it would have started to rain, with Phoebe taking cover under six, brightly colored umbrellas, like the ones in the opening of Friends. The final scene would have had Phoebe walking away from Central Perk and the rest referring to her as “the crazy lady who always stares at us”, and they all have different names and personalities. Phoebe started projecting herself as all she wanted was friends, so she imagined that those five strangers were her loving friends.
The author describes how Friends should have ended, explaining that Phoebe slept in a park and spent her days looking through the window of Central Perk, where she saw the other five friends every day, chatting and drinking coffee.
#KAUFFMAN FRIENDS SERIES#
The theory was shared on Twitter back in 2015, and the author suggests that the whole Friends series was just a dream of a homeless, drug addict Phoebe.
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