'Friends' alum Lisa Kudrow says she was fired from 'Frasier' before landing iconic role: It 'wasn’t working'

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Lisa Kudrow is opening up about a role that she was fired from just days into filming -- but fret not for the star because Kudrow ended up landing her role on "Friends" after the ousting.

While joining her sitcom co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox on Wednesday’s edition of Sirius XM's "The Howard Stern Show," Kudrow, who played Phoebe on the beloved 30-minute program, revealed that she was also tapped to play Roz Doyle on "Frasier" but was pulled from the gig three days into filming its pilot episode. "I wasn't right for the part [or] for the chemistry of the group.

So that wasn't working but I did think, 'Oh, I am not this guy's cup of tea,'" she said of director James Burrows and his decision to scrap Kudrow for that of Peri.