A longstandg urban legend is that Chandler was origally supposed to be gay Friends until Matthew Perry was st the role.
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- 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
- TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
WAS CHANDLER OM “FRIENDS” MEANT TO BE GAY? IT SEEMS HE ALMOST WAS.
If Chandler had been gay, would the show have been funnier? Would that have let them tell better stori? * is chandler from friends gay in 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.
Chandler go to his iends and asks if they ever thought he was gay, and learns that they all thought he was.
HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
* is chandler from friends gay in real life *
And they’re not alone, bee when this episo aired, a lot of viewers thought he was gay as well. 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.
TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
The show loved droppg ltle gay hts about Chandler. In that season 1 episo, after his iends all tell him that he has a gay “qualy, ” Chandler fds his worker so he n make sure she knows he’s not gay. It’s another example of wrg gay, playg straight.