{"id":104780,"date":"2022-10-22T13:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/matthew-perry-explains-chandler-bings-speech-patterns-in-friends-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T13:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:15:22","slug":"matthew-perry-explains-chandler-bings-speech-patterns-in-friends-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/matthew-perry-explains-chandler-bings-speech-patterns-in-friends-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry Explains Chandler Bing’s Speech Patterns In Friends \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tMatthew Perry has revealed how he created the unique speech patterns that made his character Chandler Bing so distinctive from the moment he appeared in friends<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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\tPerry has written a memoir about his rollercoaster ride with global sitcom success, addiction and rehab \u2013 extracts of which have already brought headlines, including his crush on co-star Jennifer Aniston and near-death experience with opioids. <\/p>\n

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\tSwitching to his craft in an extract published in today’s times<\/em>Perry explains how, right from his audition, he was inspired to give Chandler a speech pattern that stood out, with its emphasis on unusual words and syllables. <\/p>\n

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\tHe writes: <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI read the words in an unexpected fashion, hitting emphases that no one else had hit. I was back in Ottawa with my childhood friends the Murrays; I got laughs where no one else had.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tBecoming the final member of the lead cast of six, Perry took this same style of delivery into production:<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI was talking in a way that no one had talked in sitcoms before, hitting odd emphases, picking a word in a sentence you might not imagine was the beat. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI didn’t know it yet, but my way of speaking would filter into the culture across the next few decades. For now, though, I was just trying to find interesting ways into lines that were already funny, but that I thought I could truly make dance. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201c(I was once told that the writers would underline the word not usually emphasized in a sentence just to see what I would do with it.)\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tSure enough, despite the show finishing after ten seasons in 2004, Chandler’s expressions, including the memorable \u201cCould I BE\u2026?\u201d remain in common parlance today, no doubt helped by the never-ending re-runs of the record-breaking sitcom, which a whole new generation of fans discovered on Netflix during lockdown. <\/p>\n

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\tPerry also recounts how, as soon as he was sent the script for the show, originally called Friends Like Us<\/em>he instinctively knew that Chandler was the character he needed to play. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cIt was as if someone had followed me around for a year, stealing my jokes, copying my mannerisms, photocopying my world-weary yet witty view of life\u2026 <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cIt wasn’t that I thought I could play \u201cChandler\u201d; I was Chandler.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tPerry was reunited with his fellow friends<\/em> alumni last year for a televised reunion. While the cast joined in remembering anecdotes from their time on the show, the actor \u2013 who has become a champion of rehabilitation for those suffering from addiction \u2013 talked about the pressure he put on himself to land the laughs for which he had become known: <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI felt like I was gonna die if [the live audience] didn’t laugh. And it’s not healthy for sure. But I would sometimes say a line and they wouldn’t laugh, and I would sweat and\u2026 and just, like, go into convulsions. If I didn’t get the laugh I was supposed to get, I would freak out. I felt like that every single night.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tMatthew Perry’s memoir ‘Friends, Lovers and the Big, Terrible Thing’ is released November 1.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n