Joey om "Friends" was gay & closeted joke cut om season 4 fale - LGBTQ Natn

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• HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
• MATHEW PERRY SHOT DOWN HOMOPHOBIC 'FRIENDS' PLOT THAT FEATURED CHANDLER SNEAKG TO GAY BAR
• JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE
• TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
• WAS CHANDLER BG ORIGALLY GAY ON FRIENDS? EVEN LISA KUDROW THOUGHT SO
• WAS CHANDLER FROM ‘FRIENDS’ MEANT TO BE GAY?

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.

MATHEW PERRY SHOT DOWN HOMOPHOBIC 'FRIENDS' PLOT THAT FEATURED CHANDLER SNEAKG TO GAY BAR

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? “On the one hand, would have been amazg to see a gay ma character on one of the most popular shows TV history.

JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE

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. Actor Matthew Perry reportedly refed to do a scene the popular 1990s show 'Friends' where his character, Chandler Bg, was set to sneak to a gay bar to get his favore sandwich, acrdg to a new book.

Chandler, throughout the long-nng show, was portrayed as a character who was spected of beg homosexual by the other characters on the s. The wrers had iated that Chandler would vis a gay bar bee he liked the tuna melts they served.

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

One of the ma characters of the h '90s TV show Friends was reportedly supposed to be gay. Queertyreports that Friends producers origally tend the character of Chandler Bg (played by Perry) to be gay.

The plot was cut for unknown reasons, but certaly would've been a groundbreakg moment for gay reprentatn, nsirg how big of a h the show beme. There is a nng gag throughout the seri of people assumg Chandler is gay, but the ia mak him unfortable and is played for lghs. Friends - Joey totally thought Chandler was gay when they met.

In an old episo of Friends, Chandler disvers that many people thought he was gay when that first met. Joey reassur him that he didn't thk Chandler was gay and Chandler accepts this. In flashback episo later on we see clearly that Joey absolutely thought Chandler was gay when they first met and Chandler was really angry about .

WAS CHANDLER BG ORIGALLY GAY ON FRIENDS? EVEN LISA KUDROW THOUGHT SO

A joke about Joey Tribbiani beg gay was cut om an episo of Friends, an early versn of the script revealed.

Reported that a draft script for the season four fale, “The One Wh Ross’s Weddg, ” had a joke where Phoebe said that Joey is gay.

WAS CHANDLER FROM ‘FRIENDS’ MEANT TO BE GAY?

Related: Was Chandler om “Friends” meant to be gay? But the draft script, she adds another joke: “Or ‘Hey, Joey, you’re gay. Friends has faced cricism recent years due to the show’s negative portrayal of LGBTQ people, cludg the humanizg way Chandler’s transgenr parent was treated, the immature lbian jok Ross’s ex-wife Carol was the butt of, and the nstant fear male characters the show lived of beg thought of as gay, g them to fear and lgh at boys and men who dance, take re of children, or play wh dolls (gay, gay, and so gay that ’s OK to be mean to your own child over).

What’s unual about Phoebe’s cut joke is that was ually Ross and Chandler who were spected of beg gay, not womanizg Joey. And perhaps that’s why the joke didn’t make the fal ed: ’s possible that Joey’s entire character was a refully nstcted fa for a closeted gay man, but that’s a long, arduo path for a s to go down jt for a rather un-funny zger that isn’t even need bee immediately followed one that ma the same pot.