Tom Hanks missed out on famous ‘Friends’ cameo role

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Friends as Ross and Rachel’s nanny Sandy.Freddie Prinze Jr, who ended up playing the character in ‘The One with the Male Nanny’ the sixth episode of season nine,  revealed Hanks was first in line for the job in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly.“I wasn’t even supposed to be [Sandy], that was originally offered to Tom Hanks,” he said. “But he wasn’t gonna make it back from his film on time.“So my agent called me and said, ‘Do you want to be on Friends?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do an episode of Friends.

That’ll be great.’ He said, ‘Yeah, it shoots tomorrow.’”Prinze Jr also opened up about playing Ross and Rachel’s daughter Emma a rendition of ‘Greensleeves’ on the recorder. “I had just learned for the last like four hours of my day.