The One About the People Who Made ‘Friends’
They are the writers who created one of the most memorable shows in TV history. But for David Crane and Marta Kauffman, saying goodbye to "Friends" after ten years is too hard to put into words.
David and Marta say they'll miss the many hours in that writer’s room crafting the characters and that genius group of six actors who always delivered. "It’s sometimes hard for us to see where the character ends and the actor begins," David tells us. "They did it all so effortlessly."
"I am going to miss that feeling of being in the trenches with all these people," Marta adds.
David says that the pain of saying goodbye hit him while working on Joey and Chandler's farewell scene. "I am not giving anything away, but you sort of see them again in the show, but that sort of closes off their relationship," he reveals. "Just writing it is like, ‘this sucks.’"
And Marta and David also tell us that you won’t actually see the final scene they planned for the finale in May. "We couldn’t write the last scene," Marta says. "We couldn't do it." David explains: "So we actually ended the show a scene earlier. We couldn’t write it, it was too hard."
So hard, in fact, that David and Marta may steer clear of sitcoms with future projects. "I may try to find some other form that works for me," Marta says, while David will at least stick with the tone: "I’m afraid that if I wrote drama it would come out funny."
Both creators could retire with all the "Friends"
rerun money, but did they get as rich as the actors during the
fun of the show? All David will say is, "It was pretty
fulfilling."
For more "Friends" details, don’t miss Wednesday’s edition of "Extra."
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