Lisa Kudrow pours cold water on Friends, The Movie

Lisa Kudrow pours cold water on Friends, The Movie
Lisa Kudrow pours cold water on Friends, The Movie (Image credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Lisa Kudrow insisted there are no plans for a big-screen version of hit show Friends. Her Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston recently hinted the series may become a film but Lisa, who has just finished filming Hotel for Dogs, told The Independent that Friends would not work on the big screen. "For the type of show Friends is," she said, "I don't know how it would work. It would be fun if everybody wanted to do it, and by everybody, I don't just mean the cast, I mean the creators of the show. So if there was a way to figure out what that could be...I just don't know who wants to figure it out." Lisa, 45, became well-known for her ditzy character Phoebe Buffay in Friends, winning an Emmy for her role along the way. She said her notoriety has been both a blessing and a curse. She said: "People still recognise me as Phoebe and even ask me to sing for them. Well, I mean, it's fine. But I'm always afraid someone's going to get really mad when I don't sing for them while I'm walking into a restaurant or wherever. "One of the best things of being an actor on a hit series is that it affords you the luxury of waiting for the right thing to come along without worrying about paying the mortgage." Keep up to date with all the latest American shows. Subscribe to TV&Satellite Week

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.