Despite never intending to be a leading man, Matthew Perry's character Chandler Bing in Friends became the ego ideal of generation X. He demanded not to be taken seriously but ended up with the best lines and a significant role in the show.
Never intended as a leading man … Perry in Friends , the show he never managed to shrug off, despite forays into film.Never intended as a leading man … Perry in Friends , the show he never managed to shrug off, despite forays into film.in his puckish, self-mocking memoir, “changed the way that America spoke”. The actor’s bold words were true – but only up to a point.
Of course Chandler was the romantic lead. His was the spirit of the age: self-deprecating, metrosexual, all ironic distance, no ambition. It had a gravitational pull. It’s the classic stuff of romance, the Emma plot: the guy who creeps up on you, because,, he’s everything. Except Chandler did that to his own creators. Incidentally, he’s a way better character before he gets together with Monica. And he’s a way better character when he hates his job.
Perry’s romantic history was, of course, chequered, which is to say, eventful, but nothing lasted. The details of his relationship with Julia Roberts are so 1990s, it is unreal: he wooed her by fax . And Perry dumped Roberts to avoid getting dumped himself, he said later, relaying deliciously: “I can’t begin to describe the look of confusion on her face.” It was a move that had all the logic of Chandler Bing himself.
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