{"id":1605498,"date":"2022-08-14T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605498"},"modified":"2022-08-14T08:55:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:55:18","slug":"friends-actress-lisa-kudrow-the-show-had-no-business-adding-storylines-about-being-a-person-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/friends-actress-lisa-kudrow-the-show-had-no-business-adding-storylines-about-being-a-person-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Friends&#8221; Actress Lisa Kudrow: The Show Had &#8220;No Business&#8221; Adding Storylines About &#8220;Being A Person Of Color&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffriends-actress-lisa-kudrow-the-show-had-no-business-adding-storylines-about-being-a-person-of-color%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605498&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1174731812-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Actress Lisa Kudrow says it\u2019s actually a good thing that \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/friends\"><span>Friends<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d didn\u2019t have many black people as part of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\"><span>cast<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 59-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span>actress<\/span><\/a><span> made these statements during a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/lisa-kudrow-is-ready-for-another-comeback\"><span>interview<\/span><\/a><span> with The Daily Beast. \u201cWell, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college,\u201d Kudrow said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd for shows especially, when it\u2019s going to be a comedy that\u2019s character-driven, you write what you know. They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color,\u201d she continued. \u201cI think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, \u2018Where\u2019s the apprenticeship?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Emmy Award-winning sitcom, which aired from 1994 to 2004, has come under fire lately for its lack of diversity in casting. Series co-creator Marta Kauffman feels so terrible about relegating black actors to bit parts that she pledged $4 million to Brandeis University to create a scholarship that would benefit black students specifically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,\u201d Kauffman told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cAdmitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It\u2019s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I\u2019m embarrassed that I didn\u2019t know better 25 years ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalized systemic racism,\u201d she told the university, as The Daily Wire originally <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/friends-creator-pledges-4-million-to-atone-for-lack-of-black-leads-on-the-series\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cI\u2019ve been working really hard to become an ally, an anti-racist. And this seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in the conversation from a white woman\u2019s perspective.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kauffman said she really started thinking about diversity after the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/george-floyd\">George Floyd<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was after what happened to George Floyd that I began to wrestle with my having bought into systemic racism in ways I was never aware of,\u201d Kauffman told the LA Times. \u201cThat was really the moment that I began to examine the ways I had participated. I knew then I needed to course-correct.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kauffman also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/next-on-the-friends-apology-tour-co-creator-regrets-misgendering-chandlers-dad\"><span>apologized<\/span><\/a><span> for the treatment of Chandler\u2019s father, who was transgender.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe kept referring to [Helena] as \u2018Chandler\u2019s father,\u2019 even though Chandler\u2019s father was trans,\u201d Kauffman said. \u201cPronouns were not yet something that I understood, so we didn\u2019t refer to that character as \u2018she.\u2019 That was a mistake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Lisa Kudrow says it\u2019s actually a good thing that \u201cFriends\u201d didn\u2019t have many black people as part of the cast.The 59-year-old actress made these statements during a recent interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1603026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1603026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}