Actors who refused to film cheating storylines: Matthew Perry and more
nypost.combe any more faithful?Matthew Perry was afraid the audience would no longer be his friends if he cheated on his on screen wife Monica Geller, played by Courteney Cox.After his death in October 2023, Lisa Cash, the actress cast as his would be fling, revealed that Perry nixed a storyline that would have landed them together in bed.“We had rehearsed it and everything, and then the day before we were shooting in front of a live audience, I was told that [Matthew] went to the writers and said the audience would never forgive him for cheating on Monica,” Cash told TMZ. “He was probably right.”According to Cash, 54, the Season 5 episode titled “The One in Vegas: Part 1″ probably “would’ve changed possibly the course of the show and his character.”Although the 1999 episode might have changed the trajectory of her career if the scene would have happened, Cash wholeheartedly believes Perry made the right decision. “I think it was a good move,” Cash said. “Because they had that other thing with the Ross and Rachel ‘we were on a break,’ but Chandler and Monica weren’t on a break.
This was a decision that he was gonna make to cheat on her.”Cash ultimately appeared on the series as a flight attendant in a scene with Ross Geller, played by David Schwimmer, and Rachel Green, played by Jennifer Aniston.
As one half of America’s favorite couple on “The Office,” John Krasinski became a household name as Jim Halpert opposite Jenna Fischer’s Pam Beesly.After multiple seasons of sexual tension while working alongside each other at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Jim and Pam finally got married in Niagara Falls during Season 6 of the hit NBC sitcom.
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