Lisa Kudrow, 58, reveals she had to do an extra audition to land role of Phoebe Buffay in Friends
dailymail.co.ukLisa Kudrow had to do an extra audition for Friends.The 58-year-old actress - who played Phoebe Buffay in the classic sitcom between 1994 and 2004 - admitted her path to the role was more difficult than her co-stars'.That is because Friends director James Burrows was not immediatelyconvinced by her.
Hurdles:Lisa Kudrow had to do an extra audition for Friends. The 58-year-old actress - who played Phoebe Buffay in the classic sitcom between 1994 and 2004 - admitted her path to the role was more difficult than her co-stars'; seen in JuneExplaining that Burrows had previously fired her from the role of Roz in Frasier after the pilot episode wrapped in 1993, Lisa said: 'I was cast in Frasier as Roz, mistakenly cast.
I didn't know that at the time. 'I knew that Jim clocked that I waswrong from the table read and so I thought, "Oh he doesn't like me or what I do."'She added,'So then we're doing Friends and I had to do a special audition for Jim Burrows.
You have to do auditions for producers and studio, network but in between all of that, I had to go in and read for Jim Burrows.
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