In the mass of fresh appreciation for Matthew Perry and his work on Friends this week following his death last weekend, David Schwimmer’s generosity to his five castmates has come to light.
Perry and his five fellow leads on the record-breaking sitcom that ran from 1994 to 2004 were a famously tight bunch, both on and off screen.
This weekend, The Guardian newspaper highlighted Schwimmer’s role in sharing out the riches that came the cast’s way as a result of the show’s enormous success.
The newspaper quotes Perry’s memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, in which the actor revealed it was Schwimmer who was considered the show’s breakout star and, due to the success of the Rachel-Ross love story, was being paid more, along with Jennifer Aniston.
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