In the latt TV Legends Revealed, learn whether Chandler was nceived of as gay until Matthew Perry was st and the character was re-wrten.
Contents:
- HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
- ‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’: IS CHANDLER MASSEY GAY REAL LIFE – MARRIED OR SGLE?
- WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.
- GAY CHANDLER
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
- GAY TV HISTORY: THE STRAIGHTENG OF CHANDLER BG
- TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
- WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.
- GAY-UNIENDLY MATTHEW PERRY REFED A ‘FRIENDS’ STORYLE WHICH HAD CHANDLER SNEAKG TO A GAY BAR, ACRDG TO NEW BOOK
HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
A longstandg urban legend is that Chandler was origally supposed to be gay Friends until Matthew Perry was st the role. * chandler gay *
A longstandg and oft-repeated urban legend is that Chandler was origally supposed to be gay Friends until Matthew Perry was st the role. “If we had st a different actor – who was gay – there was the optn that we would have taken the character that directn. This ntributed heavily to fan speculatn that Chandler was origally supposed to be gay – a theory given crence by Phoebe Buffay actrs Lisa Kudrow, who 2014 revealed that she thought the character was gay when she first joed Friends.
Friends might not have pulled off havg TV’s most visible gay character. Bme said Chandler has “a gay sensibily, but no gay storyl”. “If they had ma fully gay – wrten gay, played gay – would that have been a good thg or a bad thg?
‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’: IS CHANDLER MASSEY GAY REAL LIFE – MARRIED OR SGLE?
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“On the one hand, would have been amazg to see a gay ma character on one of the most popular shows TV history. They’d often repeat the same simple joke, that would be funny if a person was gay. Bme said Friends was at s bt when tellg “heterosexual stori”, addg: “I’m not sure they uld have pulled off the challenge of featurg TV’s most proment gay character.
WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.
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Seattle-based journalist Matt Bme, however, believ the show uld have end very differently if the creative team’s origal plans for Chandler, played by Matthew Perry, had been a new vio report, Bme ― who is the thor of the 2015 book “Defg Marriage” and the host of “Culture Cise, ” an acclaimed YouTube seri ― lv to thly sourced but persistent reports that the creators of “Friends” had tend for Chandler to be a gay man, but changed him to a straight character after Perry was st.
He also breaks down a number of gay jok ― many of them crgeworthy by morn standards ― prented the show at the character’s expense as evince of a funct plot le. “No, Chandler isn’t gay, ” he said at the time. “Nor will he be gay.
And Perry’s -star Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay, gave crence to that theory a 2014 terview wh the Televisn Amy suggtg that she, too, believed the character was gay at that Chandler posss what he believ is “a gay sensibily, but no gay storyl, ” Bme told HuffPost, “If they had ma fully gay ― wrten gay, played gay ― would that have been a good thg or a bad thg? ”“On one hand, would have been amazg to see a gay ma character on one of the most popular shows TV history, ” he ntued. They’d often repeat the same simple joke, that would be funny if a person was gay....
GAY TV HISTORY: THE STRAIGHTENG OF CHANDLER BG
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TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
As for the answer to “is Chandler Massey gay real life? How close did the people behd the h show Friends e to makg Chandler gay? Chandler uld have had the most proment gay character televisn history… until the show’s creators cid to straighten him out.
It was about six twenty-somethg Gen-Xers livg, lghg, and lovg implsibly large Manhattan apartments, and was a lot ls shy than other shows of the time about dog gay episos. He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s sarstic, he’s unlucky love, he’s well drsed — and he was believed to be totally gay, both by characters on the show and by people real life.
WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.
Chandler go to his iends and asks if they ever thought he was gay, and learns that they all thought he was. And they’re not alone, bee when this episo aired, a lot of viewers thought he was gay as well.
GAY-UNIENDLY MATTHEW PERRY REFED A ‘FRIENDS’ STORYLE WHICH HAD CHANDLER SNEAKG TO A GAY BAR, ACRDG TO NEW BOOK
In the early velopment of Friends, creators Marta Kffman and David Crane “entertaed the possibily that Chandler uld be gay, ” acrdg to terviews published back the 1990s.
If they’d gone wh a gay actor, he said, they might’ve stuck to the gay plan. Instead of havg the character be gay, they cid stead to have everyone jt thk he’s gay. Wrers were told to “wre gay and play straight.
Viewers may have been primed to notice gay characters the mid-90s bee they were creasgly visible on the news and talk shows. There are tons of articl om the show’s origal n perd about how gay Chandler seems — so many terviews where they have to very patiently expla, no, he’s not gay, really.