‘Friends’ Writers Helped Matthew Perry Woo Guest Star Julia Roberts by ‘Flirting Over Faxing’: ‘We Were on Team Matthew’

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Could this BE any more romantic? Matthew Perry convinced Julia Roberts to appear on Friends 25 years ago in the most unconventional way — the pair also got a little flirty via some unexpected 90s technology!Kevin Bright, the show’s cocreator, told The Hollywood Reporter this week Perry, 51, was fully responsible for getting the Notting Hill star, 53, to make a guest appearance on the sitcom.

She starred in a 1996 episode called “The One After the Super Bowl” which, as the title suggests, aired after the NFL championship.“Matthew asked her to be on the show,” Bright recalled in the interview, posted on Thursday, January 28. “She wrote back to him, ‘Write me a paper on quantum physics and I’ll do it.’ My understanding is that Matthew went