The cultural significance of NBC’s Mates nonetheless reverberates via present popular culture. From its supremacy on Netflix to now streaming on Max, the New York sitcom is a comforting hug to treatment no matter ails you.
For a decade, the six pals dwelling throughout the corridor from one another outlined a era, making Matthew Perry’s sudden passing much more heartbreaking. Every season is crammed with iconic moments and might’t-miss particular visitor stars. It was widespread apply for lots of the actors to ask their vital others to look in brief stints on the collection.
Whereas Jennifer Aniston was nonetheless married to film star Brad Pitt, Mates featured a hilarious dynamic the place Ross (David Schwimmer) and his highschool pal Will (Pitt) reveal they fashioned the I Hate Rachel Inexperienced Membership. Equally, Courteney Cox invited her then-husband David Arquette on the present the place he performs a stalker obsessive about Phoebe’s (Lisa Kudrow) twin, Ursula. One other iconic star to make a visitor look on Mates was Julia Roberts, who appeared in season 2.
Who does Julia Roberts play?
Within the early days of Mates, lengthy earlier than Chandler (Matthew Perry) finds a soulmate in Monica (Cox), most of his humor facilities round his incapability to be in a functioning relationship. Scarred at an early age by his mother and father’ brutal divorce, Chandler turns into an unrepentant dedication phobe who makes use of humor as a protection mechanism. Sadly for him, that is the place Roberts is available in.
In season 2, episode 13, Chandler runs into an previous acquaintance from grade faculty. Susie Moss (Roberts) is a make-up artist on a movie set the group visits and she or he acknowledges him from a big encounter in fourth grade. Susie pursues Chandler, which instantly ought to have been a pink flag. After being satisfied to undress in a public lavatory sporting solely her underwear, Chandler shortly learns what Susie’s true motivations are.
Nonetheless humiliated after the incident the place Chandler lifted her skirt in fourth grade in entrance of all the faculty, Susie was all the time decided to do the identical to him and that was all that motivated her pretend curiosity in him. She steals his garments and leaves him stranded dressed solely in her lingerie, unable to go away.
Chandler would be the protagonist, however that is a type of cases in which you’ll be able to’t criticize the villain’s motives. He humiliated her and although solely a baby on the time, Chandler nonetheless had the identical immaturity on the time he did up to now. Some elements of Mates might not have aged nicely, however holding somebody answerable for their misdeeds even once they’re dedicated by the protagonist shouldn’t be one in every of them.
Why did Julia Roberts conform to star in Mates?
Perry and the Fairly Girl star had been in a short-lived romance for a couple of months in the course of the heyday of Mates. The Chandler Bing actor wrote concerning the expertise in his memoir, Mates, Lovers and the Large Horrible Factor (through The Sunday Instances).
“Julia had been provided the post-Tremendous Bowl episode in season 2, and she or he would solely do the present if she may very well be in my story line.”
Perry was blown away by that realization as a result of she had already turn into a monumental film star and couldn’t consider she would need to insist on working with him. He later broke up with Roberts as a result of her movie star standing was so intense, however by all accounts, the 2 loved and fondly remembered the time they spent collectively.