Lisa Kudrow was told she wasn’t ‘f’able’ by Friends guest star

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Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay on Friends, has worked probably the most constantly out of all the actors since the show. She is currently starring in and promoting Table 19 with Craig Robinson, Anna Kendrick, Stephen Merchant and June Squibb. Table 19 is about the Also-Rans’ table at every wedding and it looks to be sort of a “Reclaim the Reception” type film. You can see the trailer here. I like the cast enough that I will likely see it at some point. Of course, Lisa is never going to be allowed to avoid questions on Friends when promoting anything else. While appearing on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Andy asked which Friends guest star behaved the poorest. Lisa answered, but in a maddeningly vague blind riddle way. She said that only after she showed up in hair and makeup did this guest see her as someone they could f**k.

Lisa Kudrow has dished on some hot “Friends” gossip while making the rounds promoting her new film, “Table 19.”

On last night’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” a fan called in to ask the actress about the worst behavior she’d experienced from a guest star on the hit sitcom.

“The worst behavior just off the top of my head?” Kudrow replied. “I rehearsed without makeup most of the week and then on show night I’m in hair and makeup and I was told, ‘Oh, wow, now you’re’ — can I say it? ― ‘now you’re f**kable.’”

“That’s bad behavior, I say,” she told host Cohen and fellow guest Jennifer Beals. When Beals asked if Kudrow retaliated, the actress said she told Matt LeBlanc about the comment because “he’s like a big brother.” 

Unfortunately, the Phoebe Buffay actress didn’t name any names, leaving us to ponder the possible suspects. She did, however, later reveal that it was not Charlie Sheen, so you can cross him off the list.

[From Huffington Post]

I hope Lisa issued a Churchillian response along the lines of, “And yet, you still aren’t.” Lord, we could be here all day trying to figure out who this is. First I have to eliminate all the ‘It can’t be him because I heart him so very much‘ guest stars like Paul Rudd, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Favreau and Greg Kinnear. Removing Charlie Sheen sucks because that was such an easy answer. My first thought was Alec Baldwin. But a lot of tools appeared on Friends so it’s hard to say – Jon Lovitz, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, Jean-Claude Van Damme, to name a few. And, if you look at her very careful wording, she never said it was a man. Maybe Susan Sarandon was an **shole while on set.

Something Lisa was a little more definitive on was the possibility of a Friends reunion, for which she suggests we don’t hold our breath. While assuring everyone that the Friends are still very much friends in real life, she just doesn’t think Friends will go the way of Gilmore Girls and Will and Grace. Lisa’s point was, “The thing we liked best about the show was that they were 20-somethings and they were their own family. Now, they all have families, so what are we going to watch?” I was, am and suspect will always be a massive Friends fan but I think Lisa is right on here. I can’t see any Friends-in-present-day story getting it right. I’ll just stay happy with them popping up on each other’s shows from time to time.

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  1. Alix says:

    She should’ve ripped off the mofo’s d!ck and fed it to him. Then reported him to the producers and gotten him off the show. Disgusting.

    • Esmom says:

      Lol. It is disgusting but not at all surprising. This stuff happens all the time, in every industry. We have a long way to go.

      ITA that a Friends reunion is not at all necessary, I’m glad they all seem to be in agreement on that. I feel vague secondhand embarrassment that Will & Grace went there.

    • BangersandMash says:

      Smells like Brad too me

      • doofus says:

        what’s so funny is that, a year ago, you’d have 100 people coming in here to shred you over this post.

        now?… not so much. the times they are a-changin’!

      • BangersandMash says:

        Doofus…

        I dare say, the mighty have f*cking FALLEN!!

        Read: Depp, Affleck B and C, Pitt etc. etc.

      • Bridget says:

        You think it’s plausible that someone she had already known for years at that point would say that? Over someone like Van Damme?

      • WTW says:

        Perhaps Michael Rappaport? No clue, but it seems like he might be kind of crass, and I think has acted like a d-bag with girlfriends like Lili Taylor. I don’t think it’s a woman. If it were, why would she feel the need to go to “big brother” Matt Le Blanc. It seems like if it were a woman, she would’ve spoken to Jen or Courteney, no?

      • lunchcoma says:

        I’m not a Brad fan these days, but it sounds like his issues involve having a temper when he drinks, not making unpleasant comments to his wife’s coworkers. He presumably knew Lisa at that point, so it would have been weird for him to notice a change in appearance anyway.

    • Melly says:

      My first thought was Michael Rapaport (Police officer Gary & Phoebe’s bf) because that just seems like something he would say.

  2. paolanqar says:

    My money is on either Alec Baldwin or Sean Penn.
    It’s like I can hear and see any of them doing it.

    • V4Real says:

      Maybe Ell McPherson just to be different. Better not be Hank Azaria or Rudd, though they were more that just a guest star.

    • Paula says:

      They were also my first guesses. Both were her romantic interests in the series.

    • susiecue says:

      Sean Penn!! Yes, let’s just decide it was him.

  3. RussianBlueCat says:

    I almost guessed Trump, but he never guest starred on that show. Can’t wait to read the guesses on who it could be

  4. Soprana says:

    Julia Roberts? I’ve heard that ESP in her younger days, she had a mean streak

    • Lahdidahbaby says:

      No. Really? I’m so shocked I spilled my aloe vera lotion.

    • paolanqar says:

      Uhm.. to me it sounds like the kind of stuff a man with no manners would say.

      • Erinn says:

        I could imagine a snotty woman saying it just as much. I find it interesting that she didn’t make the gender clear.

    • Rhiley says:

      I think Julia Roberts is a snot and a drag to be around but I don’t think it was her because the Friends cast is pretty loyal to her. Adam Goldberg, maybe? He just seems creepy to me. But more than likely it is probably Sean Penn.

    • doofus says:

      Reese Witherspoon could fit that bill, too.

  5. OSTONE says:

    Maybe because I am not an entitled a-hole, but who in their right mind says that to someone? Completely uncalled for. My guess is Sean Penn if Charlie Sheen has been eliminated.

    • lucy2 says:

      I was convinced it was Charlie until she ruled him out, my second guess is Penn.
      Though it sounds like someone only there for 1 episode? Hard to tell. Penn was there for I think 2 maybe.

  6. Darla says:

    A lot of people’s first guess was Sean Penn, but when reminded that Michael Rappaport played her bf, I thought, bingo! Also he seemed to be designed as long term, or at least, semi long term, role. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere, he shoots a bird, relationship over, he’s gone.

    I think it was him. If you look up his track record, it gels.

    • Esmom says:

      Yeah, he’s a great possibility. He’s scary.

    • jinni says:

      Good choice.

    • Bubbles says:

      I agree! I totally forgot about him but now that you brought him up I can totally see it. I follow him on Instagram and he is so aggressive and disrespectful to women. Not all the time but he definitely has his moments.

    • detritus says:

      Rapaport is my favorite for this blind now. Excellent guess.

    • Zuzus Girl says:

      Yes, I could see it being him but there are so, so many possibilities (including women and some of the men Hecate mentioned.) Until she names names, each person is just going to swear it has to be whoever they don’t like the most. lol.

    • doofus says:

      great guess.

    • lucy2 says:

      Oh crap, I forgot about him. I can TOTALLY hear him saying this to her too, he’s such an ass. And good call on his character being quickly and oddly jettisoned off the show. If this is the case, I hope Lisa had him fired.

    • minx says:

      Oh, yes! Great guess.

    • LA Elle says:

      Michael Rappaport is one of those actors who I just do not understand why he keeps getting work. He’s not that talented and there’s something very off-putting about him.

      Part of me wants it to not be him just because it means that on top of being not funny and getting lots of breaks, he’s a not-funny sexist p**** who thinks nothing of harassing a woman at work and still gets a lot of breaks.

    • hogtowngooner says:

      Yep, I think it’s him. He’s got a rep for being a prick and strikes me as the “bro” type who would say something like that. And as you say, he was set up to be a long-term guy for Phoebe but the relationship went from 100-0 in a single episode, so maybe he was very unpleasant to work with and they wrote him out?

    • Rhiley says:

      Yeah, probably him.

  7. Moonstone says:

    I thought it was Charlie Sheen,my bad!

  8. detritus says:

    TBH, I agree with Hecate, it could be a lady. it’s the one of those things a ‘cool girl’ would say too.

    my bet is on a dude though, just statistically.

  9. Loopy says:

    I think the most constantly working Friends star would be Jennifer Aniston and then Courtney Cox..unless I have not been really keeping tabs on Lisa.

    • Daisy says:

      Yeah, no matter what you think about her, Jennifer is by far the most successful out of them.

      • Mikasa says:

        I guess one of the reasons why Jennifer is the busy one is because of her relationship to BP. The BP-AJ-JA-stories keep her in the news, get her a lot of attention. I think without all that a lot of people would have forgotten about her.

      • lucy2 says:

        Jen is a steadily employed actress and has been for a long time. I don’t think people still hire her because 10-15 years ago she was married to Brad Pitt.

        They’ve all done ok, the women more so than the men though. I liked Matthew’s show Go On, I was sad that one didn’t make it.
        I think Lisa’s is the most interesting post-Friends career, the Comeback was unique, and Web Therapy too.

      • CF98 says:

        The women have been successful the men? Not as much.

    • lyla says:

      lisa actually edges out jennifer by a bit. she has about 30 credits since friends. jen has 29. as for the rest, courtney has 22, perry 22, schwimmer 18, and leblanc 7.

      • Loopy says:

        How are these credits counted, like Jennifer has mostly done movies, but Courteney has headed a couple of series like Dirt and Cougar. And Schwimmer did the OJ miniseries with I think about 12 episodes so does that count as 1 or 12 credits?

      • Chinoiserie says:

        That is one credit difference. Jennifer is usually starting or having a big part in films while Lisa does more tv and smaller appearences in films.

      • lyla says:

        Loopy, I quickly counted projects on imdb, not individual episodes. it’s just a rough estimate of how many projects a friends castmember has done since 2005. yes, i realize that aniston has done mainly movies with some tv, courteney has done mainly tv, lisa had two shows as well as movies (but she wasn’t the lead).

        yes, chinoiserie, i know that’s there’s a difference between a main character and smaller part and that’s there’s only one credit difference in my tally (although one of the projects listed in jen’s imdb was “we’re the millers: the millers makeover” so i wasn’t sure if that should be counted or not, since it’s not a whole different project, but in the end i counted it anyway). my point in listing all the credits was to illustrate that hecate wasn’t far off when she wrote that lisa “worked probably the most constantly out of all the actors since the show.” i didn’t say she was the most popular or successful.

    • vanna says:

      Depends on how you look at it. Most successfull is def JA. But Kudrow has been steadily working and I would say she is the biggest constant on screen. JA shills her water and shampoo and what not, but she hasn’t been a constant on screen in a few years.

  10. alfaQ says:

    When it comes to the Friends women, Lisa would be the only one I would dating. She seems so much fun!

    • Nancy says:

      The magic of tv and reruns. Lisa and Courteney are both over 50 and Jennifer is not far behind. In the tv world, they will always be beautiful 20 somethings!

  11. Lulu says:

    It would likely be someone who played a love interest for Phoebe wouldn’t it? My vote goes to Sean Penn just because he seems like that kind of guy since Charlie Sheen is out

  12. Goga says:

    I can’t be Jon Lovitz as he was her brother’s friend and basically the person who helped her to land the role in Friends in the first place.

  13. shelley* says:

    Brad Pitt guest starred on Friends once…but I can’t imagine him coming out with something like this.

  14. mrspanda says:

    The unfortunate thing is it could be one of many, there are so many douche bags in that industry! I agree it would have been one of her love interests, and I think it would be a big star if she referred to a guest star… my money is on Alec baldwin. He is a big oaf, although I do love his Trump impression. I LOVE Lisa, Jennifer A probably has had the ”bigger’ mainstream film career but Lisa has chosen the most interesting path and has written/co produced such cool stuff, i loved The Comeback and Web Therapy, and her movie roles are also quirky and interesting, I love her!

  15. Nancy says:

    I didn’t watch Friends much the first time around. I didn’t care for the Phoebe character. Now I watch (too often I admit) the reruns with my daughter. Now I love Phoebe. Lisa Kudrow is a fantastic actress. So funny. In my mind I’m picturing all of the guest stars. Phoebe’s bf who shot the bird outside the window (Michael Rapaport) comes to mind. I won’t accuse without proof. That’s what trump does….not me. It always goes back to him. Ugh

    • Ninks says:

      Michael Rappaport. Somebody else suggested him as well, and he’s shot right to the top of my suspect list.

      • Nancy says:

        Thanks! I edited my comment when I looked up his name. PC can’t wake up this morning. Me either!

    • mayamae says:

      My two least favorites were Phoebe and Joey. Joey because he was a moronic manwhore, and Phoebe for making vegetarianism look like a joke. Like Lisa, just can’t appreciate ditzy Phoebe.

      • CF98 says:

        See I liked Phoebe and Joey(in his case it was mostly with Chandler than anyone else) but the one I disliked the most was Rachel. She was just a terrible friend all around.

  16. Tig says:

    She’s such a hoot, and I give her credit for separating a s*^t comment vs a pretty sad attempt to be “funny”- so who was a GS who would say such vile things to her face? Can’t remember the guest stars all that well. What’s nuts, I just don’t see Sean Penn saying it. I go with the Rappoport guy too.
    Re women- maybe, I’m just lucky, but have never had a woman say something that vile to me personally. Everyone gets the kidding/not kidding from friends-see “humm, hot pink ruffles aren’t doing you any favors@- but this? Nah.

  17. Jayna says:

    This is easy. Jon Lovitz.

  18. lyla says:

    Jon Lovitz is friends with her brother and urged her to get into comedy, so i doubt it’s him. I would guess michael rappaport or sean penn.

    I agree about the Friends reunion. Although I would LOVE to see one, I doubt they would get it right. So I don’t want them to ruin it.

  19. Annie says:

    I would guess an actor who Kudrow actually did scenes with — so Penn or Rapaport over Sarandon, who I think was only in scenes with LeBlanc. It’s not fool-proof, but I think it’s a reasonable way to cull the herd.

    At any rate: mean! People can be real jerks sometimes, especially when they don’t believe they will face any consequences for their jerkiness.

  20. Fiorella says:

    She’s looking lovely with her simple dress and cute LV. Her interviews are always good too. Love her

  21. Jeesie says:

    That’s actually the kind of thing Jeff Goldblum would come out with, but I doubt it’s him since I don’t think any of his scenes were with Kudrow.

    Baldwin is a rage-monster but otherwise professional, so I doubt it was him. Same with Penn, he’s a massive douche but this very particular type of thing isn’t really in his wheelhouse.

    Rappaport seems likely, or Van Damme. There’s also the chance it’s a less famous guest star, like the guy who played Rory’s dad on Gilmore Girls. I think Phoebe dated about 10 other not very famous guys on screen over the course of the show.

    • mrspanda says:

      that’s a good point actually Jeesie, I think you’re right, Alec is more of a generic rage monster but this comment feels a bit different, I’ll switch vote to Rappaport!

    • susiecue says:

      Or the guy that didn’t wear underwear

    • LA Elle says:

      Alec Baldwin hits me as an ass, but I don’t think it’s him for the simple reason that he worked on 30 Rock. Tina Fey apparently wrote the Jack character with Alec in mind, and from comments Tina’s made over the years, I doubt she would have wanted to work with Alec if he was that much of a sexist *** to actresses.

      Some fun trivia: Lisa and Alec are voicing the parents on that upcoming Boss Baby movie.

  22. Shambles says:

    She’s worked the most consistently, and she still has her original face! Yaaaaay Lisa! I love her.

    • LA Elle says:

      She’s had amazing work done. My Mom and I were talking about that last week. I would love to know what she does and who she goes to.

      • Nancy says:

        She is also married to the same man she was back when Friends was on. The baby she was carrying on the show is now in his 20’s. She seems to have the most down to earth lifestyle. Her husband is handsome btw. French…oohlala

  23. elisabeth says:

    For some reason, I thought of Fisher Stevens when I read this. Wasn’t he known to have been a jerk to Michelle Pfeiffer?

    • LA Elle says:

      That’s an interesting guess. And he was on early in the series, so before the Friends actors were powerful in their own right.

    • CF98 says:

      Forgot about him he was a love interest of Phoebe’s who everyone went “I really hate that guy” hmm…

  24. Brit says:

    What’s the tea on Michael rappaport? I recall he did something cringeworthy recently but I can’t remember what it was exactly.

    I saw table 19 this weekend. It was cute, a little different from what you see in the trailers. It’s probably better to stream on Netflix than to pay to watch it in a theater

  25. Leah says:

    “And, if you look at her very careful wording, she never said it was a man. Maybe Susan Sarandon was an **shole while on set.”

    LOL! Ill go with this!

  26. Eric says:

    No disrespect to anyone here, but I disagree with the notion that she had to improve herself to be effable.

  27. Littlestar says:

    I didn’t even like Friends, but I’d watch a reunion show with the characters.

  28. nemera77 says:

    That “guest star” should have focused on who had the most TALENT.. because it would have been Lisa hands down.

    And why do people assume it was a man.. it could have been a woman. (Did I miss her saying it was a male??)
    I just recall Jennifer Aniston telling some story about “being Fcukable” so that comes from women too.

  29. MrsBadBob says:

    Not particularly a fan of Friends but I have to say she was the best thing about that show and was always the most f**kable of the six. She has genuine talent and is “not just a pretty face.” She hasn’t ruined her looks either.

  30. clairej says:

    My first guess was Alec Baldwin. Only because I remember Cindy Crawford recalling being set up with him on a date. She opened the door and said his face visably dropped in disappointment. He was expecting Cindy the supermodel, not everyday Cindy.

  31. molly says:

    Hank Azaria? Dermot Mulroney? Tom Selleck? Either way, what a complete douche.

  32. lunchcoma says:

    I’m thinking Alec Baldwin (though I don’t know much about Michael Rappaport). I definitely think it’s a man. The comment is a phrased in a way that suggests that the person saying it thinks he’s giving a compliment. I think a woman would phrase an insult a bit differently, and it seems like an actress would be more likely to aim it in a different way. They all wear tons of makeup and all know how much it can change. I sort of see a woman going more toward weight if she wants to attack someone.

    Anyway, whoever it is sounds like an ass.

  33. Sean says:

    Bruce Willis

  34. Jess says:

    Lisa is so damn funny, and smart, and absolutely f*ckable with or without make up. This makes me so sick, who would say such a vile thing?! I hope she didn’t let that bother her too much, it sounds like maybe some douchey guy was jealous of her talent or her success on the show and tried to bring her “down a notch” or something, my god it’s just so mean and not true!

  35. garavo says:

    I am going to say Hank Azaria or Paul Rudd.

    and yes, Lisa Kudrow has 0 fuc.ability, sorry but it is true.

    She may be a great person, but in terms of boner I always gave her 0 / 100.

    And women, pls just stop with PC bulls.it.

    Think Danny De Vitto and let me know if he is Brad Pitt to you, okay ?

    Same thing.