TV Legends: Was Chandler on Friends Origally Meant To Be Gay?

Contents:

• HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
• TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
• WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.

HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY

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.... [The show] seemed to be at s bt when tellg heterosexual stori, and I’m not sure they uld have pulled off the challenge of featurg TV’s most proment gay ma character. 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.

TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?

TV URBAN LEGEND: The character of Chandler Bg on "Friends" was origally wrten as a gay character. Gay-themed publitns seemgly ran articl on "Friends" every other month. Now, though, when you look back at the seri, is strikg to see how often "gay panic" is displayed on the seri, wh the three ma male characters sperate to make sure that no one ever nsirs them to be gay (most notably, the season 1 episo where we learn that Chandler's -workers do believe that he is gay).

This led to article at the time wonrg whether Chandler was gay.

WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.

So don't surprise me that people would thk he's gay but our mds, he isn't. However, this has led to a separate legend that you see pop up all the time on the ter, that Chandler was origally gog to be gay until Matthew Perry was st as the character. This is all over the place on the ', but to pick one, here's one of those "facts you might not know" articl about the show, where stat, "Which of the six characters was origally gog to be gay?

The producers later changed their mds, but they did keep some of the tras they had planned for the gay character. Crane (who once joked that the fact that he was openly gay was mentned so equently verage of the show that he me to thk that his full name was "The Openly Gay David Crane"), rpond to the "is Chandler gay? If we had st a different actor - who was gay - there was the optn that we would have taken the character that directn.

So if you wanted to phrase as "The producers nsired makg Chandler gay before stg Matthew Perry, " I uld get behd that as beg te. But "Chandler was origally gay before Matthew Perry was st" don't work. A longstandg and oft-repeated urban legend is that Chandler was origally supposed to be gay  Friends until Matthew Perry was st the role.