[transcript] The Oprah Interview, Part I & II
Coffee Mug
very hard to understand what they say, because at some times they all are
speaking at the same time. I hope it all makes sense to you all.
If you're wondering, the transcriber group transcript for 10.08 will
probably be finished tomorrow. This Oprah transcript is just a project I'm
doing on my own, because I guess there are quite a few of you there who are
curious about the interview, but cannot get hold of the video files.
The parts are based on the video files that can be found at friendscafe.org.
Thanks to those people there for making them available to us all. :) So,
there's still 5 more parts to follow! Please bear with me on that. I hope I
can finish it this weekend. If any of you have remarks or corrections,
please post them in this thread, so I can adjust the final HTML version.
Here we go
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Oprah and Friends
Cast Of Friends Says Goodbye
November 20, 2003
Transcribed by: Coffee Mug
Thanks to: friendscafe.org for the video file, and Vanessa for pointing it
out to me.
Transcribers note: At some times during this interview, everybody talks at
the same time and voices in the background become inaudible. Also because of
that, some dialogue might not be what is actually said, but is extrapolated
by me, in a way, that I hope makes sense.
[Central Perk: Oprah enters through the door.]
Oprah: Whoo...! (audience cheering) How cool! Woow! Whoo, I'm here! Okay...
So cool! This is it. The last season. The end of an era. I'm standing on the
actual set of one of the biggest television shows in history. Friends!
Okay... And so, this... this is Central Perk, the famous coffee shop where
every Thursday night for ten whole years we've all hung out with Rachel and
Chandler, Monica and Joey, Phoebe and Ross... And today in their first
farewell interview, the cast of Friends says "Goodbye". Please welcome
Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow
and Matt Le Blanc.
(The cast enter Central Perk, and start shaking hands, hugging and kissing
Oprah.)
Oprah: Wow! It's really thrilling to be here. Thrilling to see all of you
guys here. What do you think the finale week is gonna be like?
Courteney: I think that Jennifer probably won't be able to breathe. Uhm,
because she starts crying uhm... like that thing, she started crying the
first day we got here this year.
Oprah: (to Jennifer) Did you?
Jennifer: I'm crying right now.
Oprah: You're crying right now? Who'd ever thought of it? Yeah?
Courteney: And, I think that it'll be the most emotional week that we'll
probably ever go through... ever.
[Some clips from the first season are shown, and we hear Oprah as a
voice-over.]
Oprah: It's hard to believe it was only ten years ago we were first
introduced to Phoebe, Rachel, Monica, Ross, Joey and Chandler... I met the
cast back in '95, when the Friends frenzy was just starting.
[We see a clip from the March 1995 Oprah show.]
Woman from the audience: I wanna know how your new found fame has changed
your personal lives.
Matthew: Not at all. (starts pretend crying and holds his hand in front of
his face)
Oprah: Really Jennifer, anything?
Jennifer: No, I haven't felt... I still just go to work every day... and...
and... the only difference is...
Oprah: You don't feel it yet?
Jennifer: (pointing to the others) I don't get it as much as these guys, I
don't know why. I haven't been bombarded by people, and I don't feel of it
has changed my life that much.
[We return to 2003, Central Perk with Oprah. Jennifer was watching her clip
closely, and now she sits back again, looking at Matthew who's smiling at
her.]
Oprah: (about the 1995 clip) Is that the hair that everybody had, and called
it the "Rachel"?
Jennifer: Yeah, and for some reason... It's so circular... (pointing to her
face, making a circle) It was circular...
Oprah: Who do you think is going to be consoling whom, when the final week
comes? Who will be the biggest consoler in the group here?
Matthew: I think we'll all be really consoling each other, and Jennifer's...
you know... "this is the last bagel I'm gonna eat on the second day of
rehearsal..." There's a lot of that stuff, you know.
Oprah: Is it true that all the girls, all of you eat lunch together, still
every day?
Jennifer: Yeah.
Oprah: Yeah. Every day for ten years?
Jennifer: Well...
Oprah: And is it true that you order the same thing every day for ten years?
Courteney: That is true.
Jennifer: Yeah...
Courteney: That is true... That salad?
Jennifer: Yeah!
Courteney: Yeah. I'm so tired of the salad, but... it's easier just to say
"Oh, I'll take what she's having." It's just easier sometimes...
Oprah: And what's the salad?
Jennifer: It's a cobb salad.
Oprah: Every day the same thing?
Jennifer: Yeah. I'm a creature of habit.
Oprah: Creature of habit.
Jennifer: But you know, we change it up on Thursdays and Fridays, actually.
Courteney: Yeah, we throw some onions in it.
Jennifer: We just mix it up a little bit. (to Courteney) HEY!
Oprah: I want to ask you all this. I know I have a bunch of questions about
who is... Okay? Who's gonna have the hardest time, do you think, on the
final taping day? The hardest time...
Matt: Jennifer.
Oprah: Jennifer?
Lisa: No, 'cause she's getting it out now.
Jennifer: I'm gonna be still on that night. I think that Matty may have a
hard time.
Matthew: The last night here will be really tough on me.
Oprah: Who is the funniest? Who is the funniest?
Courteney: Matthew Perry?
Jennifer: Matty Perry!
Matthew: Uh, well, I don't know about that...
Courteney: As far as being the funniest person, not necessarily on camera?
Oprah: Yeah, who's the funniest?
Courteney: It's definitely Matthew Perry.
Oprah: Definitely Matthew Perry, okay.
Courteney: Just all the time.
Matt: Well not on camera. Not on camera, Matt.
Courteney: I mean, without having... Just on his own, without writers or
anything, he's the funniest person from the time he wakes up until the time
he goes to bed, that I think I've ever met.
Oprah: Okay, who's the most serious?
Matt: That would be David.
Lisa: Don't look at me!
Jennifer: (pointing to David) That guy!
Oprah: David is. And who's the most emotional?
Lisa: Jennifer...
Oprah: Who's the best advice giver?
Matt: Courteney.
Jennifer: Oh Courteney... and Lisa.
Oprah: Who's the person most likely to borrow... twenty bucks?
Jennifer: Matthew. (they all laugh)
Matthew: That's a true story.
Oprah: Okay, who's the person most likely to be late?
Courteney: Me and Jennifer...
Oprah: Yeah, okay... Who's the person you would call in the middle of the
night if you were thrown in jail?
Jennifer: Courteney
Lisa: Le Blanc, Courteney.
David: Le Blanc.
Matt: Don't wake me up.
Oprah: Don't wake you up? Okay, who's the biggest flirt?
Lisa: Oh wow!
Jennifer: Everybody.
Lisa: The two Matts.
Matthew: I think we stopped flirting with each other, well, you know, to the
extend I was at the beginning... Because at some point, you just realise you
don't have a shot... (they all laugh)
Oprah: Okay, who's the most stubborn?
Jennifer: Oh God! Schwimmer!
Oprah: Who would win first prize at a karaoke contest?
Jennifer and Lisa: Courteney!
Matthew: Definitely Courteney!
Courteney: Not because I'm good... Because I like it so much. Matthew
probably win for singing.
Oprah: Okay. Who's changed the most in the past ten years? Who's changed the
most that you all have noticed?
Matthew: Uhm... The camera just went to me. (they all laugh) I certainly, I
suppose have had uhm... you know... well documented ups and downs in the
last ten years.
Oprah: Alright David, do me a favour and describe each cast member in ways
that we wouldn't know.
David: Le Blanc, I've always thought of as like blue collar, like show up
every time, every day on time. He's a hundred percent. Always got your bet.
He's the guy you want, like, if you get in a fight in a bar, he's the guy
you want... And just in terms of...
Matt: I can kick some ass, Oprah, let me tell you.
Oprah: The bottom line, yeah.
Matt: Well, its kind of strange you know. We have these really rich, full
characters to hide behind. To sit here as ourselves is really kind of nerve
wrecking.
Oprah: Is it? Would Joey be having a better time?
Matt: Oh, he'd probably hit on you. (they laugh)
Oprah: Okay, continue...
David: Well, uhm... Lisa's got the most unpredictable comic timing and
instincts that, I feel, constantly surprise you... and probably herself
which is a real gift.
Oprah: Is that true, do you really surprise yourself sometimes?
Lisa: Uhuh, yeah.
David: She's also, well, you know, she's a knock-out. I love her hair right
now. (Lisa has short hair now, which just reaches to her shoulders.)
Lisa: Thank you! (there's cheering)
David: Uhm, well Court has... most people may not know this, but she just
has the most generous heart of anyone you will ever know. (to Courteney)
Seriously, you are... Uhm, Matthew... hysterical... uhm, some of the best
lines are off-camera, when it's... you know... there's no camera rolling.
Uh, uhm, Jen... She's just... she amazes me. Also a very generous, warm,
warm person. Uhm, just always puts the other person first, and I think it's
a gift.
Oprah: I feel the love here. I feel the love. I do, I really do. Amongst all
of you. Okay, that's fantastic.
[We see wedding photos of Lisa, Courteney and Jennifer and clips of what's
to come and hear Oprah tell us:
Oprah: Later, marriage and babies. The Friends' lives off TV and coming
up...
Jennifer: Oh God, get somebody else...
Oprah: It is an emotional day...
Jennifer: Oh, no I don't know if I can do it yet.
Oprah: Stay tuned.]
COMMERCIAL BREAK
[Part 2 opens with the clip of Rachel and Joey kissing in Barbados]
Oprah: We're in Hollywood on the actual set of the hit show Friends. And
it's the final season and all of the stars we have come to learn and love
are giving their first farewell interview. I wanna ask, who do you,
Jennifer, who do you most want Rachel to end up with?
Jennifer: Ah... I'll start crying...
Oprah: Come on...
Jennifer: Well, I mean God... That's a tough... Well, I think if you go back
to the beginning, you know, I think everybody's had a special place for Ross
and Rachel... (there's cheering)
Oprah: Hm-mmm, hm-mmm... Everybody... (to David) Are you getting a little
misty over this?
David: Just when we think about the episode where they first kiss, and all
the... there's so much history between... between the two...
Jennifer: So much history...
[We see a clip from 207, The One Where Ross Finds Out, where they kiss in
Central Perk.]
Oprah: Do you have your favourite Friends moment?
David: I'm sure we all have moments that we love. But in the gag reel there
was one thing where Le Blanc kept running in and tripping and we had to do
take after take after take and we finally got it right and Matt Perry came
in and tripped.
[We see that scene which was in the special with Conan O'Brien. (The One
With The Stuff You've Never Seen)]
David: I mean, those are moments that not necessarily the... make it to the
show...
Matt: So your favourite moment is when I fall down?
Oprah: Okay, let's go to your favourite Friends moments. We all have ours. I
think the birth of Emma. (to Jennifer) How was that for you?
Jennifer: Oh, I loved that moment. That whole season, I think I loved. Uhm,
as the first kiss with Ross and Rachel I loved.
Oprah: First kiss with Ross and Rachel? (David nods also) I like the way you
refer to them as "Ross and Rachel".
Jennifer: Yeah, they're other people.
Oprah: Okay Courteney, favourite moment. Favourite Friends moment.
Courteney: Uhm, well I mean, the favourite one for me to play or be a part
of was when I asked Chandler (pointing to Matt) to marry me.
[We see the clip from 624, The One With The Proposal, where Monica proposes
to Chandler in a candlelit room.]
Oprah: Matthew?
Matthew: I agree with Courteney. That scene where we decided to get married
is... up there for me.
Oprah: Up there for you?
Matthew: Yeah.
Oprah: Lisa?
Lisa: For me personally my favourite was uhm, the scene with Crissie Hynde.
I lo-oved that scene. That was fun.
[We see a clip from 206, The One With The Baby On The Bus, where Phoebe
teaches Stephanie how to play "Smelly Cat".]
Matt: Me next?
Oprah: Yes.
Matt: I don't know if my favourite Friends moment is on camera. I would have
to say maybe the huddle backstage. I think its, you know what I mean, it's
stuff between the scenes for me that's really, really great. You know, these
are five awesome people.
Oprah: And what do you think you're gonna miss, 'cause you're gonna go on.
Joey's gonna go on. Joey's gonna have his own series, right?
Matt: Hopefully yeah.
Oprah: So, will you think... will it be as bittersweet for you, or will you
already thinking about moving on, and how to create the next thing?
Matt: It feels very strange to really think about that in a, kind of a
gung-ho way without closure here, you know. So I really want to enjoy the
closing of this, before I really go on. Without having closure here, it
doesn't feel right. It would feel like kind of betraying... It's like I feel
afraid, you know, it's like... you guys are coming right? I had a funny
pitch for the title, I wanted to call it "Where the hell is everybody?"
Oprah: I like that title.
Matt: It didn't fly...
Matthew: They didn't go for that one, did they?
Oprah: So, none of the characters that we've come to know through Friends
are gonna like even pass through Joey or know Joey?
Matt: I would love it, yeah sure. Maybe you can help me talk them into it.
Oprah: Come by every now and then...? Okay Jen, can you tell us about each
of your cast mates?
Jennifer: Oh... Hi Matty...
Matthew: Hi honey.
Jennifer: Well, what people may not know about Matthew Perry, is that he's
probably one of the most sensitive people. You know, as long as well as
being funny... and ingenious, he's also uhm...
Oprah: He's ingenious too?
Jennifer: And ingenious, yeah. He's very smart. He played tennis. I think
you speak French.
Matthew: Un peu. (translated: a bit)
Jennifer: Oh, un peu. Uhm, and he's a... he's a really strong... you know...
supportive dear friend. And uhm, Courteney, I just love you so much you just
been there for me in a lot of ways, and she really is the most dependable
and loyal and funny as all get out, I mean, she just cracks me up,
constantly. Schimmy Schwimster is uhm... We have a lot of history. Uhm, he's
uhm... he's alright. No again, really smart and helps me figure out things
that I don't understand. But he's really... I can be really honest with
David and speak my mind and I really appreciate you and... (she almost
cries) Oh God, get somebody else.
Oprah: No, you're almost done. You're almost done. You're okay.
Jennifer: Yeah?
Oprah: You're okay.
Jennifer: Seriously?
Oprah: Yeah. Okay, no really. Okay, want to take a minute? Okay.
Matthew: What do you think of all of us Oprah?
Oprah: I like you so much, it's gonna be bittersweet. I don't know. I don't
know, what is NBC gonna do? I'm thinking: okay, what are they gonna do with
that timeslot. It's gonna feel a little empty.
Lisa: J-J-J-J-Joey
Matt: J-J-J-J-Joey!
Oprah: Same timespot? Same timeslot.
Matt: Hm-mmm.
Oprah: Okay.
Matt: Depending how it goes today... (crosses his fingers and holds them up)
Oprah: Okay, I appreciate that you feel this deeply about each other. I
really do.
Jennifer: (very emotional) And now we [haven't] gotten to those two yet
(points to Lisa and Matt)
Oprah: I know. I know. I'm waiting...
Jennifer: Oh no, I don't know if I can do it yet. Let's go on to someone
else.
Oprah: Take a break. Deep breaths. Isn't this endearing?
Jennifer: It's corny.
Oprah: No, really I do, I'm very moved by it. (to Jennifer) Alright, can you
finish now?
Jennifer: Yes, I can. Uhm... Dearest Lisa Kudrow, who is also one of the
most talented actresses and I've learned so much from you as a comedian,
unbelievable, but a dramatic actress that knocks your socks off. And just
basically being one of the most loving and (looking at Courteney) with these
girls what we've got, what we've gained from each other and taught each
other and watched each other get married and just lived through so much and
so unconditional, you know. And I... I thinks she's an amazing. I love you.
(Lisa pouts her lips and kisses her through the air to the other side of the
room) And Matt Le Blanc is just, you know, the best big brother. Young big
brother, you are older than me. Just a little bit. You know, I feel so
protected by Matty and he's... talk about somebody who can read me a mile...
(to audience) I know I seem obvious, but uhm...
Matt: She's actually very happy right now. You're not crying like a ...
Jennifer: I see him staring at me giving me this look, and then he just
walks over to me and he says "Come here, sit down, talk to me, what's going
on?" And he just gets you to lose it... if there's something to lose... Or
figures something out, and he's just amazing, and one of the most loving,
dearest, loving, funny and inspiring. I love him.
Matt: Looking back at you.
Oprah: I can tell you... Can you tell right now, this is gonna be a rough
week. The last week is gonna be very tough here.
[We see previews of what's to come:
Oprah's voice: Later...
Matthew: I wanna show you how romantic our bedroom is...
Oprah's voice: The cast of Friends take me on a behind-the-scenes tour...
Oprah: What do you think you guys are gonna take from the set?
Oprah's voice: and next... The true story about their multi-million dollar
salary negotiations. Stay tuned.]
>>> TO BE CONTINUED...
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