Deadline, Clooney, 62, recalled booking “ER” and Perry landing “Friends” at the same time. Both shows premiered in fall 1994 on NBC. “We were side by side on the soundstage,” Clooney remembered. “We were all really close.
We were at the upfronts in 1994 in New York.” The Oscar-winning actor said he met Perry when the funnyman was just 16 and up-and-coming in the business.
He remembered Perry as a “funny, funny, funny kid.”“All he would say to us, I mean me, Richard Kind and Grant Heslov, was, ‘I just want to get on a sitcom, man.
I just want to get on a regular sitcom and I would be the happiest man on Earth,’ ” Clooney continued. “And he got on probably one of the best ever.
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