Was Chandler From ‘Friends’ Meant To Be Gay?

Contents:

• 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.

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

“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.

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

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.

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

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. They’d often repeat the same simple joke, that would be funny if a person was gay.

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

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.

WAS CHANDLER FROM ‘FRIENDS’ MEANT TO BE GAY?

One of the ma characters of the h '90s TV show Friends was reportedly supposed to be gay.